We who love the hyperbolical both in literature and talk will take our stand on Falstaff, a sufficient bulwark against legions of such sticklers and quibblers.
I say that these sticklers for the little facts have no sense of art.
Perhaps we have not always been such sticklers for the etiquette of the thing; but we are always sticklers on Thursdays, and this is a Thursday.
The sticklers not only found fault with this method of supplying the demand, but criticised the revivals and their attendant demonstrations.
This was the beginning of a great controversy between the liberal preachers and those ministers who were sticklers for the old ecclesiastical order.
In general the nobles of Auvergne, tho' great sticklersfor feudality and for their privileges, and tho' they disliked the Revolution, had the good sense not to emigrate.
But there were in His days upon earth some sticklers for the old spelling forms.
The small, strongly entrenched ruling circle were tenacious sticklersfor traditions as interpreted by themselves.
The sticklers for dogs never being allowed to nose a feather ought, unless they are quite willing to give up slightly-winged birds, not to shrink from the difficult task of teaching their pupils to stop and retain with their paws.
The sticklers for dogs never being allowed to nose a feather, ought, unless they are willing to give up slightly winged birds, not to shrink from the difficult task of teaching their pupils to stop and retain with their paws (319).
Basilius, the judge, appointed sticklers and trumpets whom the others should obey.
Our former chiefs, like sticklers of the war, First sought to inflame the parties, then to poise.
The Tory or High-church were the greatest sticklers against the exorbitant proceedings of King James II.
Older children are apt to be sticklers for order at the meal-table: thus, the cup and the spoon have to be put in precisely the right place.
Who then were these false brethren, these sticklersfor the ceremonial law?
The chief sticklers for the said addition were Sir William Seroggs, Jun.
Supposing there were twenty standards left in, the double play would begin by the sticklers matching them with each other, and ten would then be left for the treble play.
So few, in fact, that if only those given by the composer are to be observed, even the most rigid of our sticklers for classical severity are guilty of the most flagrant breaches of their own rule.
Furthermore, there is no ground for believing that his performances were at all such as the conservative sticklers for classic traditions insist that our renditions of Beethoven must be to-day.
There they sat with solemn faces, posing as sticklers for law and religion, and all the while they were seeking grounds for killing Him.
We were dining at the home of a friend and one of these super-sensitive, finical sticklers for gentility was present.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sticklers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
