STICKY in a Sentence

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23 example sentences for STICKY, such as:

1. I've got some sticky stuff on my shoe.
2. There's some sticky stuff in your hair.
3. If the dough is sticky, add more flour.
4. The floor's very sticky near the cooker.
5. He'd left sticky fingermarks all over the glass.

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 Meanings and Examples of STICKY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sticky
 a.  glutinous; adhesive; covered with an adhesive agent; humid; stiff
Classic Sentence:
1  She was warm and cold and sticky all at the same time and the feel of the night air on her limbs was refreshing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
2  She felt dirty and messy and sticky, almost as if she smelled bad.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
3  Puzzled, her hand went over it and, to her horror, a sticky red wetness appeared on her palm.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
4  Behind Billy's Lunch, the cook, in an apron which must long ago have been white, smoked a pipe and spat at the pest of sticky flies.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
5  We went all the way in day-coaches, becoming more sticky and grimy with each stage of the journey.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I
6  She took a few grains of the popcorn we pressed upon her, eating them discreetly and taking care not to get her fingers sticky.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
7  The sister, Catherine, was a slender, worldly girl of about thirty with a solid sticky bob of red hair and a complexion powdered milky white.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
8  And in token of all now being well and satisfactory, she opened her mouth a little, smacked her lips, and settling her sticky lips more comfortably about her old teeth, she sank into blissful repose.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 27
9  He was carefully with a blunt knife getting a live bee covered with sticky honey out of a cup full of white honeycomb.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 8: Chapter 15
10  The birches with their sticky green leaves were motionless, and lilac-colored flowers and the first blades of green grass were pushing up and lifting last year's leaves.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I
11  Having changed horses twice and galloped twenty miles in an hour and a half over a sticky, muddy road, Bolkhovitinov reached Litashevka after one o'clock at night.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XVI
12  The white canvas on his tennis shoes was bloodstained and sticky.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
13  He passed his tongue over a spoonful of preserves, and stuck his teeth into the sticky pastry of Mme.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 32 A PROCURATOR'S DINNER
14  The sense of his flesh touching her, his very stickiness upon her, was dear to her, and in a sense holy.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
Example Sentence:
1  If the dough is sticky, add more flour.
2  The sticky tape on the parcel came unstuck and the whole thing came undone.
3  The walls were besmeared with sticky blue paint.
4  He'd left sticky fingermarks all over the glass.
5  There's some sticky stuff in your hair.
6  The floor's very sticky near the cooker.
7  I've got some sticky stuff on my shoe.
8  The sheep use it as a natural water repellent, which is lovely for them, but I found it to be sticky, oily.
9  In such a winter morning we felt sticky and chilly at the same time.