sticky

Example Sentences

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Among the mains, the pan-seared half chicken with smoked red curry and purple sticky rice was the standout.

From Salon • Jun. 11, 2026

It was hard to run balls on to the greens because of the sticky approaches, but the sloping putting surfaces were often too firm to hold.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

For the next 49,000 years, the sticky pits captured virtually everything that fell or walked onto them, from grains of pollen borne by the wind to hapless ancient camels and Columbian mammoths.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

Cook, meanwhile, has turned Apple into a services business with a sticky ecosystem.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

For years, millions of gallons of sticky molasses had been stored in a building-sized metal tank.

From "I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919" by Lauren Tarshis