Stick

The beaver's dam was made out of sticks.

Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame.

I found several good sticks in the brush heap.

What do you call a boomerang that won't come back? A stick.

It is a fine stick, about 70 feet long.

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.

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.

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

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.

It is more than poor Philip is worth, with all his savings and his little sticks 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.

A stick of bombs fell straight across Wotton; blew up half a dozen houses.

James and I were in the same stick of five guys going through free fall school last September.

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.

When you’re swooping, looping, and diving with the analog stick (either using the nunchuk or the Classic controller), the game feels very much like its 32-bit predecessor; […]

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

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

You think you’re real now you’ve got a couple sticks? My favourite younger, he got stabbed in my bits. And if he died fam, I promise I’d have quit.

Bitch, pig, pull out with the stick / everything I hit like a lick/ We don’t miss

[…]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.

Come in, have a good time, drink some beer, shoot some stick, listen to some music.

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.

“[…]He’s a good doctor but an odd stick—odder by far than I am, Emily, and yet nobody ever says he’s not all there. Can you account for that? He doesn’t believe in God—and I am not such a fool as that.”

"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.

What about contempt? Isn't it used by the judiciary as a stick to dissuade people from writing or talking about them?

Back in 2009, when Democrats tried but failed to take significant climate action, their policy proposals consisted mainly of sticks—limits on emissions in the form of permits that businesses could buy and sell.

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

“[…] Nigel used the word ‘invasion’ for a long time and got a huge amount of stick […]” he says, referring to the total number of men, women and children who have arrived by small boat in the past seven years.

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.

I got some stick personally because of my walking attire. I arrived to training fully kitted out in sturdy walking boots.

'I have nothing against the players at Cardiff, because they did all help me to become a better player.' He added: 'I'll probably have a lot of stick when I return to Ninian Park for that game, but I did was the best I could for Cardiff and the supporters. I've just got to get on with it and try to do a job for Birmingham City - this is now my future and my new employer.'

Again Rwanda chose to follow a different path, reflecting the unique historical and political context of the country, and dispensed with the sermons on democracy from outsiders. So Rwandans get a lot of stick for being big-headed and refusing to follow a path chosen for them, but striking out independently. They get hit for insisting on being the principal actors in making choices about matters that concern them.

He really gave that digging some stick.

She really gave that bully some stick.

Give it some stick!

'Choir gave it some stick on "Unto Us a Son is Born."' ¶ Cynthia nodded. ¶ 'It was always one of Russell's favourites. He makes them try hard on that.'

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.

In the same charter, Nigel granted another 10 sticks of eels yielded by the fishery of Polwere to the abbey[…]

to stick type

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

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?

The tape will not stick if it melts.

The Citizens in their rage, imagining that euery poſt in the Churche had bin one of yᵉ Souldyers, ſhot habbe or nabbe at randon^([sic – meaning random]) uppe to the Roode lofte, and to the Chancell, leauing ſome of theyr arrowes ſticking in the Images.

I haue stucke vnto thy Testimonies: O Lord put me not to shame.

Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.

The lever sticks if you push it too far up.

"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."

Why do most course organizers stick the job for less than five years?

His old nickname stuck.

"Our team did brilliantly to be in the game. We stuck at it and did a good job. This is disappointing but we'll think about the next game tomorrow."

Just stick to your strategy, and you will win.

After this contencion, the common people did ſticke vnto king Agis, and the riche men followed Leonidas, praying and perſwading him not to forſake them: and further, they did ſo intreate the Senators, in whom conſiſteth the chiefe authority,[…]

What I get from work makes me a better mother, and what I get from being a mother makes me a better journalist. At least that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

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

Some stick not to say, that the Parson and Attorney forg’d a Will, for which they were well Paid […]

, 2nd edition edited by Samuel Johnson, London: J. Payne, 1756, Part I, p. 12, Though a cup of cold water from some hand may not be without its reward, yet stick not thou for wine and oil for the wounds of the distressed […]

And so careful were they to put off the Honour of great Actions from themselves, and to centre it upon God, that they stuck not sometimes to depreciate themselves that they might more effectually honour him.

For he that sticks not at one bad Action, will not scruple another to vindicate himself: And so, Devil-like, become the Tempter, and the Accuser too!

The First-fruits were a common Oblation to their Deities; but the chief Part of their Worship consisted in sacrificiing Animals : And this they did out of a real Persuasion, that their Gods were pleased with their Blood, and were nourished with the Smoke, and Nidor of them; and therefore the more costly, they thought them the more acceptable, for which Reason, they stuck not sometimes to regale them with human Sacrifices.

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.

Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.

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

to stick a needle into one's finger

The points of spears are stuck within the shield.

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.

Thou stickest a dagger in me: I shall never see my gold again: fourscore ducats at a sitting! fourscore ducats!

[…] ſome of them attempted with Spears to ſtick me in the Sides; but, by good luck, I had on me a Buff Jerkin, which they could not pierce.

[…] would haue [=have] sticked him with a dagger […]

It was a shame […] to stick him under the other gentleman's arm while he was redding the fray.

The defendant said he didn't shoot; "he sticked him with a knife."

to stick an apple on a fork

my shroud of white, stuck all with yew

Once again, the world champion sticks the dismount.

stick the landing

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."

Chillin' in a Benz with my amigos / Tryin' to stick a nigga for his pesos

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

You leave your girl around me; if she's bad she's gonna get stuck.

A non-stick pan. A stick plaster.

A sticker type of glue. The stickest kind of gum.