Throw a stick and watch the dog fetch it.

Rules and incentives sticks and carrots.

Now, instead of crude tools made of sticks and stones, Israel now had iron plows, and sickles, and hoes and military weapons.

The fisherman who is responsible for pulling the poles raises the left pole to set the net on the edge of the boat.

So, heavens! What was I to do? I no longer required the sticks I wasn't allowed to have these sticks.

The performer is in the worst possible position for the actual sound, because they're hearing the contact of the stick on the drum, or the mallet on the bit of wood, or the bow on the string, etc., or the breath that's creating the sound from wind and brass.