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Example sentences for: sticking

How can you use “sticking” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

A great black comedy should be palatable but hard to digest, slipping easily down the gullet and then sticking in the gut.
I tried sticking a thumbtack into my buttocks and I bled."
Republicans must appease their religious constituents while sticking to the tax policies demanded by their other base--Americans of wealth.
Elsewhere, Zaillian takes a more surface approach, sticking to legal minutiae and rarely digging for the deeper evil.
Many women have done this again in the last decade or so, usually sticking to masculine sports hat shapes, baseball caps among them, or east European rabbinical effects to combat the cold blast.