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Sentence Examples In short, Pakistan is an aggrieved state that got the short end of the stick when Partition happened. It was a bit like academia, where young scholars rarely stick their necks out until they have tenure. She had indeed issued from the palace in a plain gown and gipsy hat, carrying a badine, or slight stick, such as ladies then used. From this point of view it makes no sense to stick rigidly to the idea of our own bodyhood as something with bounded extension in space. He stands there and launches into a tauparapara or traditional chant, accompanied by vigorous actions and defiant brandishings of his stick. There was no similar carrot and stick for use against the French land armaments. Richard believed this offer and so made a red mark with a stick in the man's little red book. I dipped a cheese stick into some sauce and tried not to cuss him out for ruining my amusing thoughts about little demon creatures. He must have lost his head, or he never would have left the stick or above all, burned the cheque book. He made a circle in the dust with his trench stick, and stared into the center of it. States typically like to stick to anodyne messages, like saving wildflowers or animals. But every so often a controversy crops up. The cyclic control is usually located between the pilot's legs and is commonly called the cyclic stick or just cyclic. All Cirrus aircraft use a mechanical side yoke instead of the traditional yoke or stick flight controls. Technology used by indigenous Australian societies before European contact included weapons, tools, shelters, watercraft, and the message stick. The spearhead is shaped in a manner which allows it to penetrate the thick layers of whale blubber and stick in the flesh. Timber framing is a style of construction which uses heavier framing elements than modern stick framing, which uses dimensional lumber. Instead, I would stick to dancing and continue plunging my toes into the beautiful, tight, shiny sheaths called pointe shoes. The first saddle was positioned to the back of the camel, and control of the Bactrian camel was exercised by means of a stick. Traditionally, the bamboo core of cored stick incense is prepared by hand from Phyllostachys heterocycla cv. There are many different types of stick used for different purposes or on different festive days. Show More Sentences Stick machines are sometimes used, which coat the stick with paste and perfume, though the bulk of production is done by hand rolling at home. Some men carry the assa, a stick, which can have practical uses or is simply used as an accessory during formal events. Most of the plants here are native to the region, and many, such as the Peltogyne mexicana or purple stick tree, are in danger of extinction. Over time, the Marshall Island people learned to navigate over long ocean distances by canoe using traditional stick charts. The stick was used to launch the missile with more force and accuracy than could be accomplished by simply hurling it with the arm alone. It is then speared onto sticks, four to six plants a stick and hung in a curing barn. For example, the 11 ring pulldown didn't stick in my head because I don't really juggle rings, and I have no conception of how hard it is. Simple examples might be A hitting B with a stick, or X pushing Y down a water well. I stood on the brake and shoved the gear stick into reverse, not even looking in the rear-vision mirror, thinking there was no need. As social animals, it is not easy to stick to an opinion that differs markedly from that of a majority of the group. A handloom weaver could propel the shuttle by throwing it from side to side with the aid of a picking stick. Cross a gecko with a mussel and what comes out is a new type of adhesive tape that can repeatedly stick and restick, even underwater. Residual graphite from a pencil stick is not poisonous, and graphite is harmless if consumed. The kids in the courtyard played with a rhythm stick so that they could learn rhythm. A black wooden toy windmill on a stick meant for a scare-the-birds was warped and immovable. Does this mean Middlesbrough get the short end of the stick, with what will surely be the most ramshackle show of the tour? Soviet emphasis on high-yield weapons might give them a megaton surplus.... We might then be on the short end of the stick. She knew that sleaze Hakido would do something to stick the knife in and twist it to the hilt. Unless Smokeys were engaged in an active pursuit, they had to stick to highways and pass off suspicious vehicles to local units. James and I were in the same stick of five guys going through free fall school last September. Show More Sentences Arsene, boy, ain't you worried about your clarinet? Where'd you leave that stick, man? For ultimate presentation portability, a Powerpoint can be saved to a stick as images. Vaughn has to hit and keep hitting or this will be another year when the Mets don't have enough stick to win. Skunk really gave it some stick all the way to Caliban's place, we passed a good few Coppers but they all seemed to turn the blind eye. The child killers got some stick. I saw a woman throw a basin of scalding water over a baby killer. What about contempt? Isn't it used by the judiciary as a stick to dissuade people from writing or talking about them? I got some stick personally because of my walking attire. I arrived to training fully kitted out in sturdy walking boots. If you have any questions for the performers, stick around in the lobby after the show. Sometimes on Sunday, Ola, Ethel, Joe and I would go to the pasture, and sit under the sweet gum tree or play stick frog. Plenty of people begin the training, but few stick it out for the year or two necessary to become proficient. Paula not only told her boss that she quit but also told him to shut up. Way to stick it to the man! For the past four years, government and regulators have been trying to treat the wounds exposed by the financial crisis with stick plasters. Attach catheter onto two circular double stick plasters, one at the site of catheter entry to the skin and the other 5 cm away. I have seen all the fancy electric toothbrushes, but I'm going to stick to the old-fashioned kind. Researchers should stick to their knitting, finding cancer cures and discovering new shades of lipstick, and refrain from debunking history. The rum-based mixed drink came with a swizzle stick shaped like a pirate's sword. All of us who have been to the beaches this year have encountered tarballs that stick to our feet and mess up our rugs. This is gonna be like bleedin' a steer. Turn around, mister, or I'll stick this Texas toothpick in your eyes, one at a time. I shot pool for a few hours and smoked some Thai stick. The Thai stick was always fresh and potent over there. This was pretty standard, unless you're talking about some primo smoke from Hawaii, or Thai stick, from Thailand. Show More Sentences But whatever harm a spiteful tongue could do them, he took care should be done. Only throw dirt enough, and some will stick. There used to be a saying that if you throw enough mud at the wall some of it will stick. Be enthusiastic and you will always sell. Prosecutors everywhere have bad habits of overcharging lots of cases, knowing that if the throw enough mud at the wall some of it will stick. In the middle of a game at tipcat, he paused, and stood staring wildly upward with his stick in his hand. Reduce to a simmer and add the cinnamon stick, allspice and nutmeg. As she walked to JoJo's house, Katie ran a stick along a fence. She liked the clickity-clackity sound. Ambrose laughed as he lurched backwards and then clomped with his gold-tipped walking stick to the bed. Leadbetter needs to be thwacked with a legal clue stick. The law he's talking about applies only to Internet service providers, not reporters. I was giving him craisins and he started to stick his head in the bag looking for more. If a crew feather much under water, it is a good plan to seat them in a row on a bench, and give each man a stick to handle as an oar. And who shall then stick closest to ye, and excite others? not he who takes up armes for cote and conduct, and his four nobles of Danegelt. The 767 made a miraculous dead stick landing at an abandoned Canadian airfield. The walker held with a death grip to his stick lest he drop it down the hill. Puck carriers will often use the blade of the hockey stick in timing a deke or fake to get around an opponent. A muscular female prison guard was dildoing a petite brunette with a night stick. Holding his stick double-handed, the man swung it around mid-height towards Henry's already bruised rib cage. A good drinking-cup is fashioned of a parallelogram of birchbark twisted into pyramid form and fastened with a split stick. Sophie hands an impatient child a stick of fairy floss and sees Grace walk by, pushing the baby in his stroller. Those pink-satin evening slippers simply lose all their display value when you stick those red-kid bed-slippers right up ferninst them that way. Floppy diskette drives have largely been replaced by more efficient media such as the USB memory stick. Show More Sentences Try and stick to only a few decorative elements, not a 'more is more' frightmare. It grasshops over the grass and bounds skyward. A matron crams a fresh stick of gum into her mouth and chews her words up with it. Grease up the cookie sheet, 'cause I hate when my balls stick. Then preheat the oven to threefifty. And give that spoon a lick. When choosing software, don't have eyes bigger than your stomach. Rather, stick to whatever level of software you need, and no more. The beginner will instinctively try to stick his toe straight in in a foot hold, which is very tiring on the calf muscles. The dried horseskin was made of brown Canton flannel and was held in place by being thrown over a horizontal stick. A plough may be made of wood, iron, or steel frame with an attached blade or stick used to cut the earth. It was at one time attached to a thin rod or stick based on the hollow socket at its base. Such a solution only puts the humanist in a cleft stick by trading the problem of malnutrition for that of over-population. Nicholas picked up Mr Lenville's ash stick which had flown out of his hand, and breaking it in half, threw him the pieces. On the other hand, should the kakistocrats in Iran stick with the name of expediency to describe their power brokers? Don't stick that screwdriver into the live electrical outlet, you knucklehead! For purposes of illustrating a lecture on calisthenics, a stick figure is a better picture of a squatting man than something from the Louvre. Allowing a known trouble-maker to join the team is making a stick for your own back. Examples of modern buildings that stick more faithfully to the ancient rectangular temple form are only found from the 18th century onwards. The low fat content of turkey bacon means it does not shrink while being cooked and has a tendency to stick to the pan. Another popular variation is the corn dog, which is a hot dog that is deep fried in cornmeal batter and served on a stick. Even in the Decameron, storytellers are encouraged to stick to the theme decided on for the day. When he complained, Orwell hit him across the legs with a shooting stick and Heppenstall then had to defend himself with a chair. In Old French, the word criquet seems to have meant a kind of club or stick. Show More Sentences A cue is usually either a one piece tapered stick or a two piece stick divided in the middle by a joint of metal or phenolic resin. It consists of a stick with a grooved metal or plastic head which the cue slides on. Some historians trace the sport back to the Roman game of paganica, in which participants used a bent stick to hit a stuffed leather ball. An Aunt Sally was originally a figurine head of an old woman with a clay pipe in her mouth, or subsequently a ball on a stick. Polynesian oceanfarers traveled vast distances of open ocean in outrigger canoes using navigation methods such as stick charts. Stockwell and Knightley, who wished to stick with the original plan, opposed this. America, with its enormous wealth and enthusiasm and it technical resources, waved the big stick. The stick may also be used to block and to tackle, although a player may not come down on an opponent's stick, a practice called hacking. The slant of the face will vary according to the position that the stick is used for. A player may only stop the ball with the stick, the chest, two feet together or one foot on the ground. To make this easier, he issued each legionary a cross stick to carry their loads on their shoulders. Columba asked the beggar to fetch him a stick from the forest, and the poor man did so. I heard that hitchhiking was illegal, so I made sure to only stick out my thumb to noncops. The Canadian Curling Association Rules of Curling allows the use of a delivery stick in club play but does not permit it in championships. Peeling from the nonstem end is actually a bit easier and reduces the chance that those annoying, stringy fibers will stick to the banana. Educated speakers often stick to the standard pronunciation but can exemplify the merged pronunciation in casual speech. Zooey suddenly turned around, opened the medicine cabinet, replaced his nail file, and took down a remarkably stubby-looking orange stick. While the Dutch prefer to stick with French spelling, as it differentiates Dutch more from the neighbouring German. One can stick to low cholesterol foods, yet eat such quantities as to pack on the pounds. Sometimes the hair would hang down the nose and would be curled upwards with a curling stick. Show More Sentences The male may then offer the female a stick which she incorporates into the nest. The leaves of brambles are often used as a main food source for captive stick insects. However changing ships many times was not the norm and most crews would stick with one or two ships. Viscosity, a physical property, is a measure of how well adjacent molecules stick to one another. If gases had no viscosity, then they would not stick to the surface of a wing and form a boundary layer. They use their tongues to swallow food, but unlike most reptiles, they cannot stick out their tongues to catch food. He stirred the campfire stew with a peeled stick, so the bark wouldn't get in it. We walk around to central world plaza, navigating crowded pavements chock a block with street vendors selling everything from fresh fish to meat on a stick to Thai beer. In terms of her sense of slippage, Valerie Solanas runs with the best of them. None of these terms stick, which is why she remains a chronic misfirer. You really need to stick up for yourself against that bully. Indeed, when in close quarters to Rooney, it must prove almost irresistible to stick a plastic moustache and silly clownish shoes on the potato-headed fool. I bought a home pregnancy test yesterday and I'm praying that stress is the cause for the lack of my monthly visitor as I watch the stick that I just peed on. You have overlooked a fallacy couched in the experiment of the stick. Once I saved twenty-five dollars and bought her a print gown for her birthday, and she was so pleased you'd have thought I'd given her the moon on a stick. The shuttle and the picking stick sped up the process of weaving. In shinty, a player is allowed to play the ball in the air and is allowed to use both sides of the stick, called a caman, which is wooden and slanted on both sides. Please stick with the path marked on the map, and try not to get lost. Their concept involved the hollowing out of a stick of juniper wood. The stick may also be used to block and to tackle, although a player may not bring their stick down on an opponent's stick, which is defined as hacking. In terms of places to send your URL or CD's, there's no easy answer. It really is a case of throw enough mud at the wall and some of it will stick. Show More Sentences Your father's a great old stick. He's really been very good to me. The incense dough is then pressed into shaped forms to create cone and smaller coiled incense, or forced through a hydraulic press for solid stick incense. The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking. Columba then sharpened the stick into a stake and gave it to the man, telling him that it would catch game for him, but it would never harm person or cattle. I can fit the pipe in my car, but one end will stick out the back. After examining it, he touches and stops the pendulum, takes away its key, poles the stick into the box and secrets it away as if it were a prize. I never learned to drive a stick. I can only drive an automatic. Stop spouting and give us some groovy licks on that gob stick of yours. Danny snorted another line of crystal and stashed the rest in the trunk, except a Thai stick he decided he'd hit as he sailed along Hampton Road on his drive home. While the first group, Brut y Tywysogion, tends to stick to historical facts, the second, Brut y Brenhinedd, is the fantastic creation of Geoffrey of Monmouth. He lunched on grilled cheese in Toronto and sashimi in Tokyo and had the chance to stick his finger in a true-to-life Dutch dike in Almere, Holland. However, initial response to the new region was mixed, with many fans unsure whether to buy a season ticket for the new side or to stick to their local clubs. But after her wedding he goes completely off his tree, runs off into the wilderness and starts ranting in verse and writing poems in the sand with a stick. All kind of places are good for ads... Got fellows to stick them up or stick himself for that matter on the q.t. running in to loosen a button. Fly by night. We waited for the Good Humor ice cream truck to get ice cream on a stick, huckle bucks, popsicles, or vanilla or chocolate ice cream in a small cup. This individual zone balancing prevents excessive dipping of one end of the needle which can cause the compass card to stick and give false readings. This involves using a long stick to vault over an open area. One way to prepare onion flavoring for a vegetable soup is to take a large onion, remove the outskin, then stick cloves into the onion, and bake until it is nicely browned. Sjoe, it was still alive! As the young man turned to pick up his stick to beat it, the snake spat its poison into the man's water gourd before slithering away. Why do most course organizers stick the job for less than five years? Show More Sentences Then sticks of the same diameter are crossed at right angles and fastened with a thongs to each hoop, and also where each stick crosses the other. Their blue uniforms and badges stick out like a fart in church. With his right hand, he held the 12-inch bang stick straight out, arm fully extended as the sharks jaws gaped wide to display its full arsenal of frightening weaponry. The other maior shot is the snap shot. It is like a cousin of the wrist shot. It is a little faster than the wrist shot and requires less movement with the stick. They generally catch the snakes with the help of a simple stick. Toffee apples, also known as candy apples in North America, are whole apples covered in a hard toffee or sugar candy coating, with a stick inserted as a handle. If a mourner is either Taoist or Buddhist they may hold a burning joss stick while bowing. A family member will usually be kneeling nearby to burn joss sticks and paper money. He pointed the bang stick at the closest shark and braced for the impact. Derailleurs, caliper brakes, drum brakes, three-speed hubs not incorporating coaster brakes, click twist grips, click stick levers, multiple freewheel splockets. Throw enough mud at the wall and some of it will stick. Be prolific and don't be afraid to make stuff that's rubbish. If you keep trying eventually you'll get there. The stick machine uses centrifugal force to remove larger foreign matter, such as sticks and burrs, while the cotton is held by rapidly rotating saw cylinders. Hockey is a family of sports in which two teams play against each other by trying to maneuver a ball or a puck into the opponent's goal using a hockey stick. These included various stick and ball games similar to field hockey, bandy and other games where two teams push a ball or object back and forth with sticks. Billiards games are mostly played with a stick known as a cue. The rooster had been known to fly on her shoulder and peck her neck, so that now she carried a stick or took one of the children with her when she went to feed the fowls. The increased heat was objectionable, and the border lights and wing lights had to be lighted by a long stick with a flaming wad of cotton at the end. The seven northern provinces, controlled by Calvinists, responded with the Union of Utrecht, where they resolved to stick together to fight Spain. Prior to the game, Mellanby killed an unwanted rat in the Panthers' locker room with his hockey stick, and proceeded to score a pair of goals later that night. Scores of transport planes streamed in to drop stick after stick of containers until the entire sky over the coast was polka-dotted with brightly coloured parachutes. A combination of shyness, lack of business acumen, and a determination to stick to the DIY punk ethos of the time caused them to miss opportunities again and again. Show More Sentences On the contrary, having picked his side, he persuades himself that it is the strongest and is able to stick to his belief even when the facts are overwhelmingly against him. Examples from Classical Literature They'll stick a b next to a k and follow it up with a z and put an accent mark over the whole business and call it a word. Eh, gien they wad but stick i' my shune, and gang wi' them whan I pu' them aff! My stick lay on the floor, where I had dropped it the morning before, and, alack! Pompey cut his stick at Pharsalia, and so did Antony at Actium. Im going to stick around until the all-out alarm is sounded. There's a great stick in the corner that Uncle Joe calls his alpenstock. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of stick? Words that rhyme with stick What is the past tense of stick? What is the plural of stick? What is the adverb for stick? What is the adjective for stick? What is the noun for stick? Translations for stick Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words stichomythic stichomythia stichic stich stibnite stibium Stick stickball sticked sticker stickering stickers 5-letter Words Starting With s st sti stic