stickler

Example Sentences

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Always the stickler about staying in character, she had not called me Nell since we left Chicago.

From Literature

When Claudius v1 came online, there were only a handful of co-workers in the Slack channel, and the bot, powered by large language model Claude 3.7 Sonnet, was a stickler for the rules:

From The Wall Street Journal

“I warn you, sir, I can be a stickler when it comes to my accommodations. I imagine you know the story of the princess and the pea?”

From Literature

You seem to be a stickler for detail, so that came as a surprise.

From MarketWatch

Darin Erstad, another former Angels star, has experience teaching young players as a college coach and would be a stickler for fundamentals and accountability.

From Los Angeles Times