Example sentences for: wicket

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

  • It is difficult to explain to a non-Brit just how funny this misdefinition is--almost as funny as Webster's attempt at defining wicket-keeper : the player in cricket who stands with a bat to protect the wicket from the ball.

  • You unfortunately have a sticky wicket of your own making--and that may be the way out.

  • Some examples of peculiar usage: we pay at the cash cashier's station in the wicket grated window; we lose waste time ; we open turn on and close turn off the light ; and we say il y a rien là there's nothing to it, literally, there's nothing there.

  • Tamblyn reiterates that marijuana is a sticky wicket, then suggests a way out--almost as a matter of course: Tune into ABC March 30, and "we'll help."


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