stuck-up

Example Sentences

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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

A toddler who suffered sinus pain and lethargy for three months was found to have a raisin stuck up her nose.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2024

But Danny's creator stuck up for his boy: Absolutely not, Winslow told me, Danny would have spotted that "punk" miles away.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2024

The snowmobile zoomed around shallow frozen lakes, and dodged clusters of smooth gray rocks that stuck up out of the white blanket of snow like icebergs on the ocean.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz