Example sentences of "stick with which [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Worse atrocities had occurred in Scotland , but ‘ the massacre of Glencoe ’ was taken up by the government 's critics , and has remained a convenient stick with which to stir up nationalistic sentiment ever since . |
| 2 | If the patient is safe sitting up , he should be left alone for privacy while he is passing urine or faeces , and he should have a bell to summon help , or perhaps a stick with which to knock on the wall or floor . |
| 3 | Thus , he argued , when Henry VIII quarrelled with the pope over his marriage , he was able to use a pre-existing anti-clericalism as a stick with which to beat the church , and when he subsequently embarked on the official Reformation , the greater part of the political nation readily gave him their support . |
| 4 | So that , when young gentlemen were on the rampage , the past — instead of being used as a stick with which to beat the deteriorated present — became the justification for taking a lenient view . |
| 5 | This sentence has frequently been used as a stick with which to beat Eliot , generally to prove that his attitudes towards fascism were ambiguous at best . |
| 6 | If Labour looks like becoming credible , Conservatives must find any stick with which to mutilate the appearance of a smooth conversion . |