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I’m starting to forget where I left the house key, my iPhone or the ⅜-inch Craftsman ratchet wrench—unless I stick to my rule of fastidiously putting everything in its place.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
“They have these long skirts. And when they run they stick their tail in the air and when they jump — oh, my gosh — they can easily jump a four-foot fence,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
In both cases, we can’t be sure he won’t stick around.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2026
This leaves airlines with little option but to reiterate their warnings and stick with tried and tested methods of ensuring staff are drilled to quickly deal with incidents when they occur.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
They all looked the same to me, but he’d stare at one and throw it away, nod at another and stick it in his pocket.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
At the other end of the ice, Lightning goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy made four saves and sticked away the puck from a danger area with the Canadiens buzzing.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 7, 2021
Coyotes winger Jordan Szwarz high sticked Schmidt to give Washington its next go-round on the power play.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 10, 2013
‘She’s sticked fast,’ said ‘Bunny’ Lewknor, who managed the other team.
From Rewards and Fairies by Kipling, Rudyard
His unfortunate lady, who sticked hersel for love wi' a drawn sword, and was afterwards seen as a ghost, dim-beckoning through the shade—a verra poetical thocht surely, and full both of terror and pity….
From Famous Reviews by Johnson, R. Brimley
He had three hats upon his head, Together sticked fast, He cared neither for the wind nor wet, In lands where'er he past.
From Robin Hood by McSpadden, J. Walker (Joseph Walker)
Many people are sticking with their current job, knowing that unemployed workers have to trudge through job hunts that last for months.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
Talks are ongoing to sign 18-year-old Morocco midfielder Ayyoub Bouaddi from Lille, but the French club's £86m asking price appears to be a sticking point.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
Workers regularly collect the trapped mosquitoes and, after sticking them in a fridge for a while to knock them out, sort them by species and count them.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
The terms of the settlement had become a sticking point for Cornyn and Tillis, whose support in the Senate Judiciary Committee was crucial for Blanche’s nomination to advance to the Senate floor for final confirmation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
“Here it is!” he cried, as he spotted a metal leg sticking out from under a small tree.
From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret
He told the programme some became stuck on the Trotternish Ridge, the high level part of the trail.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
“This would mean that if AI was the bubble that some argue, then Microsoft may be stuck with data centers but not AI-specific hardware, which is the far larger cost of AI,” Moerdler wrote.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
Instead, El-Sayed is stuck trying to rebuild an intra-party coalition after the primary.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026
Her crippling impostor syndrome was a feature, not a bug — we were stuck there with her for at least two seasons.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Tansy stuck her in the crook of her arm and climbed the rostrum to settle her in teacher’s chair behind the desk.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
