We found 59 examples of how to use rod in an English sentence.
Sentences 1 to 25 of 59.
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| 1. | The problem with fundamentalists insisting on a literal interpretation of the Bible is that the meaning of words change. A prime example is 'Spare the rod, spoil the child'. A rod was a stick used by shepherds to guide their sheep to go in the desired direction. Shepherds did not use it to beat their sheep. The proper translation of the saying is 'Give your child guidance, or they will go astray.' It does not mean 'Beat the shit out of your child or he will become rotten', as many fundamentalist parents seem to believe. | |
| 2. | Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave. | |
| 3. | Rod lives across the street from John. | |
| 4. | Spare the rod and spoil the child. | |
| 5. | He was beaten with an iron rod during a violent soccer match. | |
| 6. | He can bend an iron rod with his hands. | |
| 7. | In her right hand was gripped a suspicious looking rod that practically radiated "I'm a magical girl item". | |
| 8. | In spoiling her child, Stella made a rod for her own back in the years that were to follow. | |
| 9. | Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. | |
| 10. | Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. | |
| 11. | There’s a new long fishing rod in the shop. | |
| 12. | Do you like the rod? | |
| 13. | He knows how to fish with a fishing rod. | |
| 14. | The dowser used a dowsing rod to search for water. | |
| 15. | I bought a new fishing rod. | |
| 16. | He has a nice rod. | |
| 17. | When a thunderstorm suddenly came out of the blue, she jumped abruptly out of the hammock and ran headlong into the house where she stopped short, remembering suddenly that she had no lightning rod, and because she realized at once that this sudden onrush of a thunderstorm could end her life before she could say Jack Robinson, she became sore afraid. | |
| 18. | Tom always keeps a fishing rod in his car. | |
| 19. | The parts are connected by an iron rod. | |
| 20. | Paint one end of the rod red and the other end blue. | |
| 21. | This building has a lightning rod. | |
| 22. | In 2015, Novak Djokovic of Serbia became the third man in the Open Era of tennis (starting in 1968), after Rod Laver and Roger Federer, to reach all four Grand Slam finals in a single year. | |
| 23. | Australian Rod Laver is the only tennis player to win the Grand Slam twice — first as an amateur, and again as a professional in the Open Era, when previously amateur-only or professional-only tournaments went open to both amateurs and professionals. He also won the Pro Slam as a "Closed Era" professional, the year before the Open Era began. | |
| 24. | Sometimes with rod and line they would angle the fish which swim among the rocks; sometimes with their dogs and nets they would catch the hares which had fled from the vineyards, terrified by the noise of the grape gatherers. | |
| 25. | My father had a newspaper route and bought a hot rod car before he could drive at fifteen years old. |