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Example sentences for: sticking

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A team of scientists was directed to the site by local residents who found a tusk sticking up from the ground, reports the Los Angeles Times wire service.
Steve Roberts (CNN's Late Edition ) called it "sticking a finger in the president's eye."
I see that I have fallen (not inadvertently, I fear) into the trap that I so often criticize in other reviewers, namely, scoring a work for what it does not contain instead of sticking to commenting on what is there.
He surrendered on the death penalty, welfare, and civil liberties while sticking with abortion, gun control, and affirmative action.
Indeed, in some cultures, permissible infidelity is paired with stigmatized divorce as part of the family-values formula: high-status males get a mistress as compensation for sticking with their aging wives.