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

"All of the crew were so beautiful, they started singing when Santa got stuck up the chimney with me," she said.

From BBC • Dec. 20, 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

But when he saw Dorothy’s face flashing in the neon lights and called her name, she only stuck up her nose and turned away.

From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli