stick

Example Sentences

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Trying to weave together an impossible number of threads means some moments stick out sloppily, like a character’s reveal of a magically healed wound we never knew they had.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

Hours later, the country’s best women’s lacrosse player was back on that wall, simmering, practicing once more with that fifth-grade stick.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

He framed it instead as a matter of process: changing the language is itself a signal, and the Fed preferred not to move until confident the shift would stick.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

"Musk is a singular individual," Lund said, "but negative things never seem to stick to either of them."

From BBC • May 18, 2026

But we stick together now, riding next to each other when there’s enough space and one in front of the other when there’s not.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison