stick
Example Sentences
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Those remarkable dressings displayed here reveal dynamic, shorthand ink vignettes—energetic hieroglyphs and vibrating, wiry stick figures whose spells discharge like lightning.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
The shift to cooler weather, however, isn’t forecast to stick around long.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026
"You've got to stick through the thick and thin. That's what makes football, football," Wolves fan Reco tells BBC Sport.
From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026
One almost gets a sense that the great doers of history were like robots, temporarily inhabited by an otherworldly spiritual force or, alternatively, were stick figures that Hegel moved about on his grandiose world-historical tableau.
From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026
With a stick the Raven Leader stirred the fire, and Torak saw the lines of pain deepen on either side of his mouth.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
