stickle

Example Sentences

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Classicists from Nick's, who stickle for the traditions of the Chicago Style, nodded their heads in austere approval.

From Time Magazine Archive

To all of them�pro-Nazi, anti-Nazi, pro-French or pro-League�the present seems no time to stickle.

From Time Magazine Archive

Meanwhile in London His Majesty's Government continued to stickle for the oath in a sharp note to the Irish Free State, so sharp that last week neither sender nor receiver would divulge the contents.

From Time Magazine Archive

You called my court’s love worthless—so it turned: I threw away as dross my heap of wealth, And here you stickle for a piece or two!

From Dramatic Technique by Baker, George Pierce

They fell as thick as harvests beneath hail, Grass before scythes, or corn below the sickle, Proving that trite old truth, that life 's as frail As any other boon for which men stickle.

From Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron