stickle

Example Sentences

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Rice’s situation — the stickling intruder bent on curtailing the freedom of action customarily enjoyed by denizens of a backwater — may be nothing new to readers of suspense fiction, but Rice himself is full of surprises.

From Washington Post

"It is just about stickling to your systems and trusting in the bubble you are in."

From BBC

Browne's Pastoral, "The Squirrel Hunt," we read of— "Patient anglers, standing all the day Near to some shallow stickle, or deep bay."

From Project Gutenberg

This is seen in their way of stickling for accuracy when others repeat familiar word-forms.

From Project Gutenberg

The film, which was made largely with a $20,000 grant from the Wikimedia Foundation, spends time showing what has been lost to Wikipedia because of stickling rules of citation and verification.

From New York Times