stuck-up

Example Sentences

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Why are you so stuck up like that, bro?’

From Salon • Jun. 24, 2026

"Two weeks I think we had to wait, he was stuck up there for two weeks."

From BBC • Jan. 8, 2026

Updike stuck up for himself when faced with the magazine’s intrusively correct fiddling: In 1958 he sent one editor, William Maxwell, an unwavering paragraph against a single word.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

As she waited at Sunset Beach, her husband was still stuck up the hill.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 7, 2025

I pulled the jersey over my head—the collar of my Persian Casual shirt stuck up underneath—but still, I felt like a real Iranian.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram