stickwoman

Example Sentences

• "Some had illustrated their cards in crayon, and I found these drawings strangely moving. A stickwoman convalescing in bed. A stickwoman weeping tears in red dashes like tracer rounds. In one card, I found myself joining the hapless stickwoman in a transparent, rocket-shaped house."
• "The stickwoman was terribly drawn, her arms and legs all different lengths."
• "Use simple symbols to represent different people. Although you can make up your own, here are some suggestions: • stickmen and stickwomen—for yourself and the people in your household as well as male and female family and friends"
• "I step up to the least-crowded crap table, taking my place to the right of a country-and-western-type stickwoman with tightly permed blond hair who looks as if she would be more comfortable dressed in the square-dance outfit of the Frontier than wearing the chinoiserie, or maybe the japonaiserie, of her purple kimono uniform."
• "The boxman hunches over the house chips on the left, while the stickwoman on the right eyes the dice."
• "The other day, while at a craps table at Argosy, I saw a 12-11-10 countdown. On a lark, I called out: “Here comes a 9!” Sure enough, the next roll was a 9. I glanced around. Anybody impressed? I looked at the boxman. He was talking to the dealers about patio furniture. I think the stickwoman must have heard it, but there was no sign of recognition of the fact."