stick

Example Sentences

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The idea was you incentivize people to stick around with the prospect of a big payday upon an exit or an IPO.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

The shift to cooler weather, however, isn’t forecast to stick around long.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

"You've got to stick through the thick and thin. That's what makes football, football," Wolves fan Reco tells BBC Sport.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026

One almost gets a sense that the great doers of history were like robots, temporarily inhabited by an otherworldly spiritual force or, alternatively, were stick figures that Hegel moved about on his grandiose world-historical tableau.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026

With a sharp stick he dug down carefully, following the winding stems to the small, knobbly root.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver