Sticky

//ˈstɪki//

"Sticky" in a Sentence (26 examples)

Clerks with sticky fingers won't keep their jobs for long.

The politician had sticky fingers, and 5% of every contract ended in his pocket.

This sticky liquid can be substituted for glue.

The young boy got sticky fingers when he walked into stores.

City officials often have sticky fingers.

Japan is hot and sticky in summer.

Natto is sticky.

This tape isn't sticky.

Having found a number of small items missing from my house, I'm starting to think that my housekeeper has sticky fingers.

It's very sticky.

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Is this tape sticky enough to stay on that surface?

Particularly sticky books are cleaned with methylated spirits.

This is a sticky situation. We could be in this for weeks if we're not careful.

GCN is not just another clipboard of polite press releases. GCN is the sticky questions, the sweet moments, and the dirty stories that make up our lives.

Among the books Mum brought me to read when I was a child were The Secret Garden and A Little Princess, as well as their author Frances Hodgson Burnett's smash hit, Little Lord Fauntleroy. I haven't met an adult my age who has read this book but I did so several times. It's a sticky book, guided by that strange Victorian obsession with "the little mother" – the same obsession that Virginia Woolf, a child of Victorian parents, grappled with in her diaries and her fiction. Somehow, though, I learned to overlook the archaic, to be open to the oddnesses of different eras, and to read for something else.

Salmond studied medieval Scottish history as well as economics at university so he cannot say he has not had fair warning – it was even more turbulent and bloody than England at that time – and plenty of Scotland's kings and leaders came to a sticky end. If it happens this time, it won't be dull.

The baby was due in December and the hot, sticky August weather was making Jane uncomfortable.

Love you and miss you and wish you all the sticky things one wishes at this season for someone one loves.

a sticky price; sticky wages

We should make the printing direction sticky so the user doesn't have to keep setting it.

A woman has come to me with the complaint that her website is not sticky: 70% of the visits last 30 seconds or less.

What's something that is brown and sticky? A stick

Her desk is covered with yellow stickies.

We'd smoked some nice sticky that night and fucked with some Erk and Jerk too, so my head was still cloudy when Pimp came in the room and said get up.

Still smoking sticky, it ain't no other option / Not for made niggas, and I'm never stopping

As drunk as I was, all I could think about was getting some sticky down my lungs.

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