In a sentence
Six example sentences with cane, each labelled with its topic.
After the hip replacement, she managed the hallway with a cane and no longer needed the wheeled frame.
Medicine
Cobbled lanes in the old town are unkind to anyone whose cane keeps catching between the uneven stones.
Travel
Chaplin twirled a bamboo cane so gracefully that audiences forgot it was meant to steady an unsteady tramp.
Movies
Engineers built a cane with a sensor in its handle that texts a relative whenever its owner stumbles.
Technology
Sherlock Holmes deduces a visitor's whole career from the worn cane he left behind in the sitting room.
Literature
Eighteenth century gentlemen carried a cane as much for fashion as for support, and shops sold hundreds of carved handles.
History
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