stickle

Example Sentences

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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Good God, man!" he blazed; "are you plumb daft to stickle for little niceties now?

From Where the Trail Divides by Lillibridge, Will

They were wise not to stickle about rules, for Peter's eyesight and nerve were as good as those of any boy of twenty.

From Mr. Standfast by Buchan, John