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Example sentences for "stuck fast"

  • A letter from one of the party has been preserved, in which the unfortunate courtier complains that, during fourteen hours, he never once alighted, except when his coach was overturned or stuck fast in the mud.

  • It happened almost every day that coaches stuck fast, until a team of cattle could be procured from some neighbouring farm to tug them out of the slough.

  • He stuck fast to the horse, though without saddle or bridle, and without size or strength to use them if he had them.

  • He once on circuit, drove past a pig, stuck fast in a mud hole.

  • There he stuck fast; and as for the cow, she hung half-way down the wall, swinging between heaven and earth, for she could neither get down nor up.

  • They threw down their spades at once and tried to do so, but they too, stuck fast, and so Johnny had a fine string of seven folk hanging on to the wing of his golden goose.

  • I've been to see 'em, and they're stuck fast, all right.

  • But his foot, like his fists, stuck fast.

  • He spluttered and kicked, but he stuck fast in the barrel, and could not get out.

  • On one occasion I stuck fast in a very bad mud-hole, and so went to a farm for help.

  • There was nothing for it but to drive round it, and this time my luck failed and we stuck fast in the mud.

  • When we reached the little church we stuck fast in a big drift, but I took the wheel while the man pushed, and at last we got out.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    awfully sorry; ball game; best adapted; bring back; commercial fertilizer; dear sir; different thing; free verse; gracious sovereign; happy enough; iron door; more reason; near the present site; perfectly clean; physiological units; quarter them; remember rightly; stuck fast; vpon paine; white hand; wine glass; would sometimes