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Princeton's WordNet

1. big sticknoun

   a display of force or power

   "speak softly but carry a big stick"

How to use big stick in a sentence?

1. Joe Holt:

   With the alarming rise of Delta Air Lines variant covid cases companies face the tough decision of providing a safe workplace by using carrots and sticks to get employees to vaccinate or impose a vaccine mandate at the risk of alienating and possibly losing some employees, it seems more likely that a big stick will motivate employees more than small carrots will.

2. Theodore Roosevelt, Speech in Chicago, 3 Apr. 1903:

   There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.

3. Ivor Gaber:

   I'm not sure they (Whittingdale and Prime Minister David Cameron) will see it as a sensible course of action to pick a fight with the BBC. I think they'll carry a big stick but they'll be careful before doing anything major.

4. Theodore Roosevelt:

   Speak softly and carry a big stick you will go far.

5. Theodore Roosevelt:

   There is a homely old adage which runs Speak softly and carry a big stick you will go far. If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.

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