1.   At another time, a hanging man, in a rite of initiation, knocks down a pile of giant pickup sticks.

2.   In part, the discrepancy in almost every count stems from a mathematical truism as basic to counting votes as it is to counting pickup sticks.

3.   Roof beams lie atop each other in disorderly heap like pickup sticks.

4.   Tents are no longer the wooden pickup sticks of stakes, pegs and poles and drab canvas over rope.

5.   The harbor was speckled with sails and ferryboats and kayaks that looked like pickup sticks.

6.   In one skit, cigarettes slip through his fingers and scatter onto the stage like stubby pickup sticks.