STUCK in a Sentence

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166 example sentences for STUCK, such as:

1. The item of the Law has stuck.
2. They stuck to their task manfully.
3. She got the key stuck in the lock.
4. I tripped over the leg that stuck out.
5. She stuck to her task like grim death.

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 Meanings and Examples of STUCK
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
stuck
 v.  past tense and past participle of STICK
 a.  caught or fixed
Classic Sentence: (127 in 9 pages)
1  With a sudden wrench she seized the ring but it stuck.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  Uncle Henry went limping by, hatless in the rain, his head stuck through a hole in a piece of old oilcloth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
3  The heavy hominy stuck in her throat like glue and never before had the mixture of parched corn and ground-up yams that passed for coffee been so repulsive.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
4  Her long hair was drenched in sweat and her gown stuck in wet spots to her body.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
5  She swallowed and swallowed but a sudden dryness seemed to have stuck the sides of her throat together.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
6  Light wavered into the room as Pork entered carrying high a half- burned candle stuck in a saucer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
7  He tilted back in his chair and stuck his hands in his pockets.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
8  In these spots the mud was ankle deep and her slippers stuck in it as if it were glue, even coming completely off her feet.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
9  Scarlett tried to join politely in the laughter but she did not see any point to the story except that Creoles were just as stuck up as Charleston and Savannah people.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
10  Moreover, what Frank had said about the sawmill stuck in her mind.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
11  Of course, she had discovered that this was not altogether true but the pleasant fiction still stuck in her mind.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
12  Peter's sniffles stopped and his underlip began to protrude gradually until it stuck out alarmingly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
13  And even now, with the Freedmen's Bureau promising all manner of wonders, they still stuck with their white folks and worked much harder than they ever worked in slave times.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
14  She stuck by Scarlett's side like a cocklebur.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LV
15  The men shot their cuffs and the women stuck their combs more firmly into their back hair.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence: (39 in 3 pages)
16  The item of the Law has stuck.
17  She got the key stuck in the lock.
18  I tripped over the leg that stuck out.
19  The map had a lot of little pins stuck into it.
20  It might seem funny but I tell you what, getting stuck up a tree is no laughing matter.
21  I stuck the note to the door with Sellotape.
22  I can't get this photograph off the page; it's stuck on.
23  Perhaps he should have stuck to writing.
24  It wasn't a happy period of his life, but he stuck it out.
25  It took him quite some time to pick off the burs that had stuck to his coat.
26  I vaguely remember, you thin lips stuck on my forehead carefully,as if the whole world becomes quiet.
27  We once got stuck in a blizzard for six hours.
28  She told me a screamingly funny story about the time she got stuck in an elevator.
29  She stuck to her task like grim death.
30  They stuck to their task manfully.