How to Use cane in a Sentence

cane

noun

• The chair seat is made of cane.
• In the past, some teachers would resort to the cane when students misbehaved.
• The trunk also needs to support the full weight of the rose canes and blooms.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2023
• Charles had taught me to swing my cane wide in search of a bus pole.
  — Andrew Leland, The New Yorker, 8 July 2023
• Shorten long, lanky canes that can whip around in the wind.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Sep. 2023
• Just hit him with your cane and throw your dentures at him.
  — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 20 June 2023
• Smoke from the burning cane fields inland seasoned the air.
  — Joy Williams, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
• The man uses a stick for a cane and carries a bundle of long twigs strapped to his back.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Nov. 2023
• East winds blew into the Glades just as thousands of acres of sugar cane burned.
  — Michael Adno, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2024
• Trone resurfaced at the Capitol later in the day wielding a cane.
  — Fox News, 10 Jan. 2023
• Brush with cane syrup butter and sprinkle with flaky sea salt.
  — Paige Grandjean, Southern Living, 21 Oct. 2023
• Hobbling in a black orthopedic boot, Hawkins marched the whole way with the help of a four-pronged cane.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2023
• The grafted rose with all its canes and blooms was forever gone.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2023
• Another poet, Mike, hobbles up in front of the group on a cane.
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Feb. 2023
• His 81-year-old mother-in-law didn’t have a car, and his wife’s sister needed a cane to walk.
  — Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC News, 6 Feb. 2024
• Among his few respites were reading and fishing, using cane stalks and wheat-ball bait to catch carp and perch.
  — Clay Risen, New York Times, 7 Aug. 2023
• The grasses — relics of the sugar cane plantations in the area that largely shuttered in 1999 — dried out the landscape.
  — Brianna Sacks, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2023
• The photo shows Renner leaning against a pole while using a cane.
  — Marc Malkin, Variety, 12 Apr. 2023
• That said, the most popular beds these days are cane, low-profile, and velvet ones.
  — Jessica Cherner, House Beautiful, 22 Dec. 2022
• Mark Rissi, a 65-year-old Iowa man, walked into the courtroom using a cane.
  — Yvonne Wingett Sanchez The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 31 Aug. 2023
• The cantilevered frame allows the seat some bounce, and visually offers a crisp contrast to the bentwood and cane seats and back.
  — Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Aug. 2023
• Lopez, a slight, courtly sixty-one-year-old who wears a porkpie hat and walks with a cane, relayed his story to Minogue.
  — Jennifer Egan, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
• To counter that, many people with EDS use crutches, wheelchairs, and canes to assist them.
  — Dan Gvozden, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 June 2023
• Dining The dining room combines the sleek feel of modern design with warmth of cane chairs and wooden floors.
  — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 10 May 2023
• Below Wednesday’s evening blue skies, Chuck Adams stared at a pile of debris, a cane in his right hand and a paddle in his left.
  — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2023
• The island chain used to be home to a booming pineapple and sugar cane industry.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 17 Aug. 2023
• The sugar beet is a root crop, which is sliced and processed down into sugar cane and molasses.
  — Detroit Free Press, 14 Mar. 2024
• The larger meaning of the cross, when carried near the worn and wearied Chavez hobbling along with the help of a cane, was not at all lost on farmworkers.
  — Lloyd Daniel Barba, Fortune, 31 Mar. 2023
• Using a cane for support, Renner even stopped to meet well-wishing fans.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2023
• In eight months of physical therapy, Eliana went from a wheelchair to a walker to a cane, her mom says.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 14 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024