Stick

"I found several good sticks in the brush heap."

"I found enough sticks in dumpsters at construction sites to build my shed."

"I don’t need my stick to walk, but it’s helpful."

"Problem: A lot of stick and a lack of energy on the forward stroke."

"As soon as the fight started, the guards came in swinging their sticks."

"What if Veronica Prego was lying about who drew the blood and it was her own carelessness, not Joyce Fogel's, which caused the needle stick?"

"When cutting the door parts, I cut all the copes first, then the sticks."

"We were so poor we didn't have one stick of furniture."

"Sealing wax is available as a cylindrical or rectangular stick."

"The recipe calls for half a stick of butter."

"Don’t hog all that gum, give me a stick!"

"Cigarettes are taxed at one dollar per stick."

"My parents bought us each a stick of cotton candy."

"Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it[…]"

"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."

"I grew up driving a stick, but many people my age didn't."

"I grew up driving stick, but many people my age didn't."

"For example: in making a turn, should you throw on too much stick and not enough rudder, you'll sideslip."

"The keyboard offers a full range of actions including Fight and you are given the option of using a Kempston stick for the movement combat."

"For ultimate presentation portability, a Powerpoint can be saved to a stick as images."

"A stick in the hand, a drop in the eye."

"[…]although the headings may often be in other type, still, as these are composed in the same stick, they cannot fail to justify;[…]"

"Arsene, boy, ain't you worried about your clarinet? Where'd you leave that stick, man?"

"Tripping with the stick is a violation of the rules."

"His wedge shot bounced off the stick and went in the hole."

"His stroke with that two-piece stick is a good as anybody's in the club."

"He shoots a mean stick of pool."

"I doubted that the three iron was enough stick."

"Vaughn has to hit and keep hitting or this will be another year when the Mets don't have enough stick to win."

"Your father's a great old stick. He's really been very good to me."

""She's a stick, this one. She lacks your—" he patted her left breast— "equipment.""

"The kid was a stick, a plant, a student from UNLV who picked up a few bucks nightly by saying the words "seven of hearts.""

"A shill is also called a stick, and the role of the shill or stick is to make the customer relax and feel at ease."

"Bill Kirk, described by Robin as a "hell of a stick," didn't even attend college until after the Vietnam War."

"I remember when we dreaded the rain, as our stick of soldiers walked through the damp, tick-infested long grass of the Zambezi valley,[…]"

"We were tempted with the carrot but subtly threatened with the stick."

"The child killers got some stick. I saw a woman throw a basin of scalding water over a baby killer."

"Most people can remember their first taste of cider: sandwiched between an illicit fag and a bout of throwing up. It’s always been the teen drink of choice: available in group-sized bottles and with a more acceptably fruity taste than beer. It is also the down-and-out’s favourite tipple because it’s stronger than many bitters and lagers, so it’s a cheap way to get wasted. As a consequence, it has never been the hippest of drinks. As a devotee, I’ve come in for some stick over the years."

"He really gave that digging some stick."

"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."

"There was another speech in that day's news — a speech which The Times printed on the front page because it was part of a front-page story, and in full — it was only two sticks long; printed in full just after the much longer invocation by the officiating clergyman […]"

"The stick is employed for eels, and contained twenty-five."

""I've had ten years of it, scratching enough out of it to dress and feed myself when the going's good and sharing a room with a girl friend or pigging it in some cheap boarding-house, and doing a perish when I've been out of a job. I've got to the point where I can't stick it any longer. I'd get out tomorrow if I could find something else to do.""

"His old nickname stuck."

"Just stick to your strategy, and you will win."

"For thou art so possess’d with murderous hate That ’gainst thyself thou stick’st not to conspire."

"He that has to do with young scholars, especially in mathematics, may perceive how their minds open by degrees, and how it is exercise alone that opens them. Sometimes they will stick a long time at a part of a demonstration, not for want of perceiving the connection of two ideas; that, to one whose understanding is more exercised, is as visible as any thing can be."

"1708, Jonathan Swift, The Sentiments of a Church-of-England-Man, with respect to Religion and Government, in The Works of Jonathan Swift, 7th edition, Edinburgh: G. Hamilton et al., 1752, Volume I, Miscellanies in Prose, p. 73, […] this is the Difficulty that seemeth chiefly to stick with the most reasonable of those, who, from a mere Scruple of Conscience, refuse to join with us upon the Revolution Principle […] ."

"Stick the label on the jar."

"Stick your bag over there and come with me."

"The balloon will pop when I stick this pin in it."

"In certain of their sacrifices they had a lamb, they sticked him, they killed him, and made sacrifice of him: this lamb was Christ the Son of God, he was killed, sticked, and made a sweet-smelling sacrifice for our sins."

"to stick an apple on a fork"

"my shroud of white, stuck all with yew"

"Once again, the world champion sticks the dismount."

"Stick cuttings from geraniums promptly."

"to stick somebody with a hard problem"

"Behind all that languid talk she was feverishly computing, "I wonder how much I can stick him for it. A hundred and fifty? But it's worth that - two hundred. He won't value it unless the price is stiff.""

"You ain't lickin' this, you ain't stickin' this"