Example of a sentence with the word 'staffs' in please?

[marthamoo]

And no smart arse ones like "We are moving to Staffs."

It's one of ds1's spellings - they are all singular and plural words, some regular, some irregular - he has staff and staffs. I just had a bizarre phone conversation with Troutpout (her ds is in the same year) with all our kids yelling in the background so we couldn't hear each other and her going "so is it staarf and staarfs?" and me going "yeah, staff and staffs" (bl@@dy Southerners). We couldn't come up with a good use for the words staffs - apart from my rather pathetic "The assorted Biblical folk gathered their staffs and set off across the desert."

So staffs...

This isn't part of the homework, btw - we're just puzzled!

Aha, I just thought of one - the shopkeeper staffs his shop with teenagers on the minimum wage. Wahey!

the curly shepherds stick/crook thing is the only thing I can think of, too.

excellent

"He had a collection of knobbly staffs in his bedroom"?

Ooer, missus!

rofl @ 'knobbly staffs'

The wizards left their staffs outside the magic shop.

how about "staffs is the plural of staff but a bloody useless word. "

The warlocks nicked the wizards' staffs from where they had stupidly left them outside the magic shop.

And the moral is: Never leave your staffs unattended.

Excellent, robinpud

'I am suffering from 'Staff envy', sighed the wizard who owned too many short staffs.

mb

"How do you like your staffs madam?" enquired the proprietor of Staffs 'n' Stuff.

I'm almost wishing that use these words in sentences was part of the homework

I get mine at Staffs R Us, personally - they do a nice line in really knobbly ones.

each of the staff have their own staff, when they are all left in the umbrella stand it is a veritable cornucopia of staffs

I like my staffs long, straight and thick, personally.

Staffs for sale.

Good Pedigree

Parents available to view.

Remember Staffs are for life not just for Christmas.

Oh Twiglett - round of applause!

'The staff are so lazy', said the manager 'I can only get them to work by threatening to beat them with staffs'

Well done Twiglett.

Is a Twiglett a junior version of a staff ??

The sets of lines that music is written on are called staves, but they can also be called staffs.

Can they, wwb? I didn't know that.

Yep.

so those are the staff's staffs in the umbrella stand, eh Twigs?