In former times, the privilege of sticking a golden ladle into a heap of food piled up in the temple, on the Shasti day or sixth day after the new moon in December, is said to have belonged to the Stanikas.
A cheroot or two, perhaps half smoked, may often be seen sticking in the hair of a man or woman, to be used again when wanted.
Rude figures of birds and red rags were tied to five bamboos, which were sticking up in the air about 8 feet above the hut, one at each corner, and one in the centre, and the bamboos were split, and notched for ornament.
It was natural she should speak about the sky-blue fellow and my sticking his horse in the hip.
Gobs of the hot stuff sticking to his feet, pressing up between his toes, the old man introduced a dance--a high kicking dance that would have won him fame and fortune on the stage.
Disappearing behind the curtain, he reappeared in an instant, bearing in either hand a window sash with shattered bits of glass sticking here and there.
The man grinned, and, looking doubtfully at Nicholas, compromised the matter bysticking the card in the chimney-glass.
He wore a quaint stand-up collar with two points sticking into his neck.
Well, you can't touch pitch without a little of it sticking to your fingers.
The moment the canoes reached the shore, the men leaped out, and at once took possession of a piece of ground, by tearing up the plants and shrubs, or sticking up some part of the framing of a hut.
They bought a rusty old bedstead, very big, with laths that hung loose like a hammock, and all its knobs gone and only bare screws sticking up spikily.
Besides, you've got a regular gift for sticking it on--a talent I call it.
Of course they could not get mates, but that did not matter so much, if the soles were but thick enough to keep the pins from sticking through.
We seldom have visitors in this Valley," he said, after he had wiped his eyes with a handkerchief that was sticking in his bridle, "so most of the time there is no one to ride us.
Prince, and immediatelysticking his head through the trapdoor, he asked a Clown who stood outside to fetch the basket.
The seven looked at him and he crawled to a room; sticking his head in he found it murky.
Mrs. Nesbit that if ever one woman glued herself to another, and couldn't be boiled or frozen, or chopped loose, that woman was Maggie Fenn sticking to Laura Van Dorn.
In silence they took the fumigated pound notes, smelling of sulphur, or the silver coin of the realm, with the crumbles of quick-lime still stickingto the milling of the edges.
Ignatius Campbell with his great pipe, his low-crowned hat, his seedy black clothes with the fluff sticking here and there upon them, was not the man to impress the Glenkells.
As I drove past the end of Carslaw Hill, happening to look up I saw something sticking to the sheer face of the cliff like a fly on a wall.
Eight nails are driven into a board in a circle, leaving about an inch sticking up.
Simon Says Thumbs Up The players sit about on the floor or on chairs, each holding out on his knee his clenched fist with the thumb sticking straight up.
For sticking on the pictures, use paste rather than gum; and when it is done, press the book under quite a light weight, with sheets of paper between the pages.
The back of the seat is made by sticking four pins rather closely together and winding the wool or silk in and out of them.
Fancy tables can be made by taking a flat round cork and sticking pins into it at regular intervals all round.
The simplest of these tricks is to balance a pencil on the tip of your finger by sticking two pen-knives in it, one on each side.
Charles Dickens earned money by stickinglabels in a shoe-blacking factory.
If being a scout means anything, it means living up to the laws, sticking close to the spirit of the whole scout idea, and following out what the Handbook teaches.
We never had it like this before," said Ha'o, stickingstubbornly to his point.
The last things he remembered were the horror of that animalised snarling grip, and a dreadful agony in the shoulder as he rolled over in the sand with the knife still sticking in him.
I suppose it is only on our account that you perform this common-place work yourself, instead of leaving it to your servant to do all that sticking together.
I chatter and chatter, but it must come out, what's sticking in my throat, to the disadvantage of my own family.
And so it happened; for when the measure returned, three new silver florins were sticking to it.
One morning he broke, and sunk down altogether; and, behold, where he had stood, something like a broomstick remained sticking up in the ground.
Kay's fingers were very artistic; it was the icy game of reason at which he played, and in his eyes the figures were very remarkable, and of the highest importance; this opinion was owing to the piece of glass still sticking in his eye.
Our top was a shelter, but not a complete one--the wind drove the water in, and in a moment our umbrellas were sticking out in every direction and we had huddled together like chickens.
A displacency at the good of others because they enjoy it, though not unworthy of it, is an absurd depravity, sticking fast unto corrupted nature, and often too hard for Humility and Charity, the great Suppressors of Envy.
Bobby's heels were sticking up and he peered saucily through his feet at the astonished company.
I hope I can find Helen's big old rubber I left sticking in the mud.
She swept the dirt safely under the rugs; wiped up the floor with bath towels; and the crowning glory of her achievement was sticking all the tooth-brushes together.
We Suttons have a way of deciding early and stickingto it.
I didn't do a thing but get back at him for sticking pine-cones in my bunk!
She herself stood by with a pin in her hand, meanwhile, holding it at a slight distance below the extended arm and sticking it into the hand of the suffering one if the aching member were lowered an inch.
And in truth, she was like him, especially in the matter ofsticking to her own opinion; just the very thing he had no patience with, for he detested obstinate people.
They then proceeded to place all the tickets in a large wheel-of-fortune, after mixing them up well with a quantity of sand to prevent their sticking together.
I must be excused for sticking to you yet a little longer, Mr. Shopkeeper Thief, because I hate you so.
It would not have surprised me had I found the doorkeeper armed with a pair of “trusty barkers,” and every male guest of the company with a life-preserver sticking out at the breast pocket of his coat.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sticking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
