canes 1 of 2

plural of cane

canes

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of cane

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of canes
Verb
The Cracker Barrel in Belleville still has lots of space between the tables, which is good, because a statistically improbable number of customers the other morning were using canes or walkers. Neal Rubin, Freep.com, 28 Aug. 2025 Fennell explained that grapevine canes, the woody stems that support grape clusters, are an abundant, cellulose-rich material, and are available in the large quantities each year after harvest. Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 13 Aug. 2025 To treat, remove affected leaves and canes, as well as any dead leaves in the area around the plant. Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 7 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for canes
Noun
  • The plaintiffs later accused the department of violating the order by hitting journalists with batons and arresting them during an August protest.
    BrieAnna J. Frank, USA Today, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Reuters reported that police used water cannons, batons, rubber bullets and tear gas against protesters.
    Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Israel Adesanya of Nigeria punches Kelvin Gastelum during the UFC 236 event at State Farm Arena on April 13, 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Yet the firm punches above its weight in custody, consistently ranking third behind Coinbase and BitGo.
    Marie Poteriaieva, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The sequencer pastes together the strings and the quality scores, along with some other metadata, read by read, to form what is called a FASTQ file.
    Dmitri Pavlichin, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Aug. 2018

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“Canes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/canes. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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