How To Use Stick in In A Sentence

Tuesday, 19 February 2008 first signs of spring - centre piece of the month february pick whatever flowers you get at the supermarket to make this little basket filled with flowers. ranunculus are my favourites and available all over the place at the moment, so i chose to put them into this flowery centrepiece. the orchid is quite fancy but you just really need one to pimp this up (and it keeps for ever!). a rose or two, some ivy and green leaves from the forest and you are all set. to get started line a basket with some foil and trim on the edges. soak some floral foam in water and place in the basket, when soaked wet (can be really, really wet - it will have to work as a vase to the flowers), eventually cut and trim the floral on the edges, so that it resembles an arch. trim flowers and green leaves and stick into pot. start doing so on the bottom of foam, working upwards until you have an even flowery centrepiece. make sure foam stays moist - adding some water from time to time. Archive 2008-02-01
All being so nearly ready, I called the drowsy boy again, and, showing him a very large stick in the wood-box, asked him to bring me a hatchet. The Brick Moon, and Other Stories
Today, a Tyson chicken goes from egg to drumstick in as little as 8 weeks.
Turn your tail up to me, and I'll pull you through hindforemost, and then you won't stick in the spikes. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2
It's deliciously grown-up, avoiding slapstick in favour of fortuitous mishap.

“Turn your tail up to me, and I’ll pull you through hindforemost, and then you won’t stick in the spikes.” The Water Babies
Stick in hand, leathery skin and leather chappals worn to shreds, his dispossession was clear from his finely twirled white moustache and neat beard.
He was forced to beat the attacking dog around the head with a stick in order to save his own pet.
Inflate the scare index by blowing up balloons and placing a glowstick inside. The Sun
He snapped the stick in two.
He stuck an ice-cream stick in my mouth, followed by a thermometer and pressed his statoscope around my chest and on my back. Timothy Tiah - The Journal of Nuffnang's Co-Founder
The initial resemblance of the ancestral stick insect to a stick must have been very remote.
This is to stick in your mouth to stop you from screaming like a deranged fan.
Although the houses pictured are amazing, it's the adorable pooches and sleek cats, not the stylish decor, that are meant to stick in your mind.
Pulling himself up off the ground, Robert sprinted over to the Boss and grabbed his hatchet, dropping his nightstick in the process.
Mac snapped a small twig from a tree branch and began slowly wandering around the clearing, twisting the stick in his fingers.
Putting his performance down to beginner's luck, I stepped up for another go, determined not to lay down my weapons until I had succeeded in making at least one tomahawk stick in the tree trunk.
A mediocrity, not disagreeable, always rules; supremity has been, is, and always will be the stick in the riffle around which the little whirlpool will always centre. The Common Law
Using these pivots as fulcrums also has the advantage of using these “stick in the muds” to further your own goals. Matthew Yglesias » Lincoln Slams Mythical Liberal Extremists
The team of scientists, who work for Reptile and Amphibian Ecology International, also identified four new species of stick insect, three species of lungless salamanders, a tiny, scaly-eyed gecko known as Lepidoblepharis buschwaldii and a bushmaster, which is the longest viper in the world. Propeller Most Popular Stories
He teased her about always wearing bright red lipstick in the desert. Times, Sunday Times
Thorn ran and thrust the stick into the back of the demon, making him lose his balance, and stumbling.
Stamp -- stamp," went the pompous little man; and "brog -- brog," went his stick in the soft earth. Hollowdell Grange Holiday Hours in a Country Home
Also, di-positronium is made from electrons and positrons which are hardly "ordinary" and can annihilate itself; no need to stick in extra positrons... Annihilation! Cool Flying Dudes! And other stories from the world of science . . .
A nice idea, but it came off a bit gimmicky and mildly overacted, though the six seconds or so in which Bincohe puts on lipstick in front of the mirror and wrestles with earrings (in another example of how a film still takes on a different meaning after one has screened the film) were very good. Michael Vazquez: ON THE 48TH ANNUAL NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL
Then stick in three crude fins fashioned from pieces of cardboard box wrapped in tin foil. Times, Sunday Times
She's as thin as a stick insect.
Neil tossed the drumstick into the ashes, uneasy with Dr Barbara's self-hating tone. RUSHING TO PARADISE
In the centre's old minibus we drove through a shimmering tropical paradise of lush green forests of banana palms, coconut palms and cloves, and a land so fertile you could thrust a stick in it and watch it grow.
My habit with the coffee is I put a cinnamon stick in the filter with the grounds so my coffee tastes cinnamon-like.
She's an aromatherapist, but she keeps a broomstick in her umbrella stand in her fourth floor flat. HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
You can even move their heads in the window by pressing the analog stick in any direction.
Eratosthenes noticed that at noon in the town of Syene today called Aswan, during the summer solstice, a stick in the ground casts no shadow. Euclid’s Window
But on his rapid way he had found time to fling his hazel stick into a corner, his rough broadbrim upon the table, and these few emphatic words at his nephew: Journey to the Interior of the Earth
The diesinker had to translate a drawing – it might be for a candlestick in the form of a Corinthian column – into three dimensions, in reverse, chiseling it into hard steel and then smoothing it with emery cloth. Amid the jumble, the story of Britain's age of silver
Today's stick insects (or phasmids, as scientists call them) show great variety; e.g. some have wings and some do not.
She wanted to say how sorry she was but the words seemed to stick in her throat.
This pepped-up, silly-billy edit also makes a virtue of the crash zooms which, when not blended into a pedal-to-the-floor montage, stick in the craw a little more. New French Trailer For Inglourious Basterds Is Far, Far Better Than The US Versions | /Film
She yelped, the blindman howled and I had a white stick in between my ankles.
The dog caught the stick in its mouth.
Unlike the typical adolescent fiction, there isn't much moral education or other such naff business lying underneath, just red bottomosity, snog scales, wet stick insect tarts, hornmeisters, spazzy Ace Gang members, the elderly mad, prat poodles, and welk boys. Reader reviews of Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison.
As such, his book is a wonderful gift - a page-turner that teaches, using words and images that stick in the mind.
He gritted his teeth and wrestled with the joystick in a vain effort to regain control of his crippled craft.
I told him to stick in and pass the exam.
His quote is, of course, from that fine poem The Lost Leader in which Robert Browning decries Wordsworth's desertion of liberal causes and his selling-out to the Tory establishment and values "Just for a handful of silver he left us,/ Just for a riband to stick in his coat... Letters: Electoral lessons for the Lib Dems and Labour
One of them, anyway - the stick insect couldn't have escaped.
I walked him back down to the slough and heaved a stick into the water.
Attached to the top of the candlestick was a golden bowl filled with the purest olive oil, to be used for the candlestick in the The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4
Older approaches to biomechanics and orthodontic tooth movement included the implied, intuitive "stick in the mud" model, which was rather effective in explaining traditional Tweed mechanics.
That meant I played ball in the lots, swung a broomstick in a stickball game, shot baskets in the school yard until dark and starred in hide and seek because I could run fast.
Might look for a phasmid stick insect for a mascot/cover model for Phasmatodea, which is my and aklikins's Chapman Stick duo. The state of the scorpion address
If a RB on your roster with a bye week has the short end of the stick in a running back by committee situation, depending on the quality of your remaining RBs you may be better off cutting your current RB and speculating on a RB who will likely get a chance to start at some point this season hint: look for RBs playing behind starters who are injury-prone or facing an upcoming suspension Scott Swanay: Fantasy Football - Week 5 Preview
Two kids were poking a stick into the drain.
Certainly, the share raid was something to stick in the craw of Europe's biggest reseller and runaway market leader in the UK.
The Pope also has a painful right leg and has taken to using a walking stick in his apartment. Times, Sunday Times
Stick a lollipop stick in each one and dip into the toffee. Times, Sunday Times
The facia mounted gearlever is a brilliant, if unusual, way of putting a short stick inches from the driver's hands.
When molders don't accurately dose their shots, Elli explains, they risk overpacking their parts, which can cause the parts to stick in the mold or even to break it.
This is specifically a reference to those fluorescent plastic thingummies that men like to stick in the back pockets of their trousers or jeans.
I told him to stick in and pass the exam.
Scientists group cockroaches, praying mantids, grasshoppers, crickets, katydids, stick insects and some other insects together as orthopteroid insects.
Libby Anne, limping painfully, put her "shinny" stick into Bud's hand. The Second Chance
He sawed the stick into pieces.
Reading back over some of their lines, I had to laugh imagining Zed's awful motivational speeches filled with classic Jack Black bravado, or thinking of Michael Cera's awkward gawkiness when Oh tries to dance with his love interest and eventually hits her over the head with a stick in an attempt to woo her. Script Review: Harold Ramis' Year One - Biblical Blasphemy « FirstShowing.net
I can say that I've never had a moment's uneasiness by (_beating her knee with her hand, stick in left hand_) telling the truth. Mr. Pim Passes By
To put it another way, ancestors of stick insects that did not resemble sticks did not leave descendants.
Some memories stick in the brain like shards of glass. Times, Sunday Times
Kitten got up from her desk a tube of red lipstick in her hand.
For your information, the stick insects are all female and breed without the nuisance of the male. The Sun
Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back. Desmond Tutu
These moments of national humiliation can stick in the memory. Times, Sunday Times
Traffic had to stop and wait while the cowman, wobbling on his bike with a stick in hand, would have to round up the odd cow that tried to make a run for it. Family life
It is the size of a paper clip and is described as a cross between a stick insect and a praying mantis.
Don't whittle the stick into a short one.
He teased her about always wearing bright red lipstick in the desert. Times, Sunday Times
High in omega-3 fatty acids, it also has "800 times more lignan than anything else you could stick in your mouth," says Duke University cancer researcher Wendy Demark-Wahnefried. Cancer Treatments From the Kitchen
Smirking, ignorant W. with lipstick in reply to a comment from frustum Associated Press: Pet Owners Prefer McCain To "Petless" Obama
He sighed, then sneezed as an unlucky poke of the stick in the fire sent a cloud of smoke into his face.
I heard shrieks from the women in the car and two skis flopped out to land, heel down and stick in the snow. SNOWJOB
The femur-tibia (FT) feedback system of the stick insect is one of the best known motion feedback systems in arthropods.
The Barb is what makes a hook stick in a fishes mouth ( or your finger ).
He sighed, then sneezed as an unlucky poke of the stick in the fire sent a cloud of smoke into his face.
But it is a wonder indeed, that they who were so given to and delighted in parables, and so dextrous in unfolding them, should stick in the outward shell of ceremonies, and should not have fetched out the parabolical and spiritual sense of them; neither should he be able to fetch them out. From the Talmud and Hebraica
Acupuncture is Filiform needle stick into patients' body follow a certain acupuncture points, then utilize the techniques like twist and lift and stick to treat the disease.
Take a marshmallow and a lollipop stick and push the end of the stick in to the narrower end of the marshmallow. The Sun
Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back. Desmond Tutu
For your information, the stick insects are all female and breed without the nuisance of the male. The Sun
Etching - dip a cocktail stick in lemon juice or vinegar and scratch away the colour when the dyed egg is cold.
A simplified 2D axial symmetry model was founded against the features of steel stick in flash butt welding. The temperature field was simulated utilizing ANSYS software.
After a week you will need to collect the stick insect, its eggs, its egesta and the uneaten leaves.
She wanted to say how sorry she was but the words seemed to stick in her throat.
As an afterthought, I plugged the stick into my dataport and ran a full-level format. 365 tomorrows » 2008 » May : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
But my definition of a "bookmark" is very wide - basically anything I can use to stick in the book and mark my place counts. Angels' Blood Countdown: Nancy Haddock - La Vida Vampire
A fishbone get stick in his throat , and after a long wrestle, he manage to swallow it down.
China may only have blunt weapons with which to handle overheating - the economic equivalent of pushing a walking stick into the spokes of a bicycle's front wheel.
A small alteration expedites the process considerably: the child puts on the forefinger of its right hand a small cloth cap or fingerstall, and rolling out of the heap from six to twelve needles, he keeps them down by the forefinger of the left hand, whilst he presses the forefinger of the right hand gently against their ends: those which have the points towards the right hand stick into the fingerstall; and the child, removing the finger of the left hand, slightly raises the needles sticking into the cloth, and then pushes them towards the left side. On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures
Some betrayed patients, institutions, and colleagues in the search for ribands to stick in their coats.
The Pope also has a painful right leg and has taken to using a walking stick in his apartment. Times, Sunday Times
When I was young I was like a stick insect, then at fourteen or fifteen I put on weight.
He also insists that speakers ‘add a bit of magic’ - a story, anecdote or joke that will stick in the minds of the panel hearing the pitches.
He snapped the stick in two.
At some point, I'll find a knife to stick in the notion that the plummiest of vibrating singers and this lot are plummy must be accompanied in Mozart by that lean-mean-string-thing, that silly period-practice-equals-no-vibrato tokenism... Archive 2007-05-01
I remember last year, stuffing my face on all sorts of goodies; 2 dozen oysters, (1 raw, 1 battered and fried) plus a hangi are what stick in the mind.
But for those concerned about the impact of gay stereotypes and and the cause of acceptance and tolerance, I would suggest that Perez Hilton's vapidly vicious agenda and his bottomless bitchiness ferments much more repellent opinions against gays than Sacha Baron Cohen's slapstick in shaved legs. John Wellington Ennis: Is Bruno Worse For Gays Than Perez Hilton?
Prior research by the same researchers (also adopting the Social Relations Lens Model) found that men with a long-term mating orientation (which is correlated with reduced levels of extraversion) and shy men (which is correlated with higher levels of neuroticism) get the short end of the stick in rapid mate-selection settings such as speed dating. Who Is Popular at First Sight?
Here's a stick in case you should need it.
She was a wiry haired woman, thin as a matchstick in her long tweed skirt and shapeless blouse. NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
Written on a lolly stick in Bray. Times, Sunday Times
He teased her about always wearing bright red lipstick in the desert. Times, Sunday Times
- Post exposure prophylaxis (PEP) for high risk occupational and nonoccupational exposure (such as needlestick injuries among medical staff or rape) - Pre-exposure prophylaxis of high risk groups (for example, haemophiliacs) - HAART therapy to reduce sexual transmission among discordant couples (where one partner is HIV-positive and the other negative). ANC Daily News Briefing
Maybe one day somebody will do right by the community, but at least this show portrays them as ‘good witches’ without a broomstick in sight.
We are having the most trouble with needle-stick injuries that occur when sutures are passed to and from surgeons.
She's an aromatherapist, but she keeps a broomstick in her umbrella stand in her fourth floor flat. HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
The two Bristol natives gave themselves a lot to live up to with a name like an unimaginatively-titled panto porno, but their sound, like their name, is likely to stick in your mind. Virtual Festivals
Bryan has packed five tubes of chapstick in his travel bag.
You can lay your shirts flat without a platen or palette inside, or you can make a cardboard or chipboard platen to stick inside.
At the risk of being accused of the beauty-actor habit, but knowing your love for grangerizing, I send you one or two photos of myself which you might like to stick in my book.
Logistic regression modeling was used to estimate the odds of needle-stick injuries and near misses associated with various factors.
Etching - dip a cocktail stick in lemon juice or vinegar and scratch away the colour when the dyed egg is cold.
Lips: Select a color two shades darker than your natural lip color, something like my DeVine Goddess Lipstick in Hera. Napoleon Perdis: Witty in Pink: Celebrating the Most Flattering Makeup Shade
When the Dodgers and the Giants left New York in 1957, he quoted Robert Browning: ‘Just for a handful of silver he left us, just for a riband to stick in his coat.’
I told him to stick in and pass the exam.
His name has been lost in a starless midnight, and he walks down a long road to find it again, a stick in his hand and a hound at his side. Novel Excerpt - Full Chapter of Jimmy!
He accidentally dropped the stick into the fire and plunged his arm into the flames to retrieve it.
It's a bowl you stick in the freezer for twenty-four hours, then slot onto your Kitchenaid with a special dasher attachment.
I seat myself on an old mahogany chair and begin to feel soothed by the sweet, smoky smell of joss stick incense.
These sketches stick in the mind not just because of their content but because of their formal qualities.
Take your sharpest serrated bread knife and cut the stick in half across the middle.
Push the gear stick into first.
Yeah, a gradual, step by step development of DNA codons, mRNA, varieties of tRNA and amino acyl tRNA synthetases, and all that on route to a genetic code - now that's something to stick in your weed pipe. Chunkdz Comes Out Smokin
It is not the French people with whom I have any quarrel, but their corporate interpretation and abuse of EU rules does stick in the gullet.
You need the Colour Surge Lipstick in Real Pink, a frosted shade.
As the first movie was concluding The Maiden went to the Kitchen to pour the well-mulled hot spiced cider into deep earthen mugs, filling them full and placing a cinnamon stick in each to use as a stir.
When you see somebody who looks like a stick insect, it's no good keeping them alive just for your benefit. The Sun
TOUTING LOUISIANA: Dan Lund, an independent producer in California who previously worked for Disney, says the Red Stick International Animation Festival has put Louisiana on his radar. BusinessReport.com stories: RSS Headlines
Perhaps even now he is striding the Highlands, walking stick in hand.
Stuck because someone glued a matchstick into the keyway with epoxy resin?
The very sight of a player running through the defence holding the stick in one hand and guiding the ball throughout as if it was glued to the stick is something to behold.
He also came face to face with a bearded dragon - an Australian lizard, stick insects and a tarantula.
‘The premium is like a bonus for us, but it is not money to stick in your pocket,’ said Mr. Ender.
Todd's slapstick ineptitude is surpassed only by his wacky lies, which compound his mishaps into an international incident. Roush Review: The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret
Etching - dip a cocktail stick in lemon juice or vinegar and scratch away the colour when the dyed egg is cold.
I rammed my stick into his side, pushing him backwards.
The presence of only a control line on the dipstick indicates a negative test result.
Went to Accipiter and found an excellent shadow box of a large malaysian phasmid stick insect I was thinking about using for photographs for Phasmatodea, and a really nice shadow box of a scorpion specimen. Stick, shopping, solaris, s'DJ
Bob yelled, sticking a drumstick in Arson's face.
Stories which alter experience with the benefit of hindsight stick in the mind. The Times Literary Supplement
The usual figure of a Sky boy, is a lown with bare legs and feet, a dirty kilt, ragged coat and waistcoat, a bare head, and a stick in his hand, which, I suppose, is partly to help the lazy rogue to walk, partly to serve as a kind of a defensive weapon. Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
It reminded my Turkish friend, the fruit knife was stick into her palm when she was cutting tomato...
Combine sake, star anise, mirin, garlic, gingerroot and cinnamon stick in a saucepan and simmer for five minutes.
She reapplied her shocking red lipstick in the rearview mirror, smacking her lips in satisfaction.
It was a tandem-seated airplane with a control wheel up front and a joystick in the back.
So that's the kind of firearm she could just stick in her purse?
To prevent wobbling, anchor stick securely in foam-filled pot and reinforce stick in foam with glue.
Does a casual remark from a coworker stick in your memory?
Logistic regression modeling was used to estimate the odds of needle-stick injuries and near misses associated with various factors.
The creatures look part stick insect, part mantis, with a touch of grasshopper.
Immersion's haptic technology first appeared in a PC joystick in 1996, and with Microsoft the company developed the DirectX force feedback API.
Stick a lollipop stick in each one and dip into the toffee. Times, Sunday Times
The fibres stick in lung tissue, causing fatal diseases such as asbestosis and mesothelioma, both rare and aggressive forms of cancer.
I also learn that feet don't really stick in the mind, even for a pedicurist. Times, Sunday Times
This unusual and outlandish scenario will stick in your head, whereas a long list of groceries probably wouldn't. The Sun
Place a lolly stick in the middle and freeze until solid. Times, Sunday Times
Did he want me to eat shit or the words stick in my throat and choke me?
The very sight of a player running through the defence holding the stick in one hand and guiding the ball throughout as if it was glued to the stick is something to behold.
He answered the door and held a chicken drumstick in his hand.
When they stick in those perfume insert things, how come they always smell the same, no matter what fragrance they're trying to pimp you?
Slide a lollipop stick into each apple wedge, without going the whole way through. Times, Sunday Times
Then stick in three crude fins fashioned from pieces of cardboard box wrapped in tin foil. Times, Sunday Times
Then, raising his stick in the air, The Other Man perorated: Across China on Foot
Repeat the layers to fill the moulds and then insert a lolly stick into each. Times, Sunday Times
Reuse of syringes and needles puts patients at risk for cross contamination and health care workers at risk if a needle-stick injury occurs.
It was what they call a canoe (so the Flamingoes told me), and most of the men in it were black; but there was one white man who had a curious stick in his hand, which he every now and then would point at some bird or animal, and then he made tire come out of the stick, and the bird or animal generally got hurt. The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories
She was very annoying on the most recent episode and I hate the idea of lovely Aden and some alleged rock star fighting over that snottery whiny brat of a stick insect. AfterEllen.com - Because visibility matters
‘Okay, Mom! ‘she called back, reinserting the dipstick into the transmission under the hood.’
What the revival needs – at least for my shallow journalistic, box-labelling purposes – are figureheads, flying the flag, and flying it shirtless, quite possibly with a glowstick in the other hand. Tim Jonze On Shuffle … House
THE days of striving to look like a stick insect are finally dead. The Sun
After applying a little lipstick in front of the mirror quickly, I tore down the hallway, Angelina at my heals.
In the meadow between the island and the house she waves her stick in the direction of several saplings (she reckons to have planted nearly 1,000 trees in her lifetime).
His mount edged slightly left but powered away inside the final furlong to score by almost three lengths from a good yardstick in Jungle Cat. Times, Sunday Times
In their own way, such incidents stick in the memory as exhilarating adventures.
Etching - dip a cocktail stick in lemon juice or vinegar and scratch away the colour when the dyed egg is cold.
They drove to Smith's Folly, the minesite closest to Purple Point, and Duff set up his gear, including a golf umbrella with a long handle to stick in the ground. The Cat Who Sang For The Birds
Push a wooden skewer or lollypop stick into each of four medium-sized apples. Nigel Slater's classic toffee apple recipe
He was irritable and sometimes jabbed his stick into his servant's face.
He also came face to face with a bearded dragon - an Australian lizard, stick insects and a tarantula.
He was built like a basketball player; tall and as thin as a stick insect.
Smirking, ignorant W. with lipstick in reply to a comment from roquelaure Lieberman On Questioning Obama's Commitment To Israel: "Why Wouldn't I Do That?"
Not because they are stick in the muds who don't like change but because they know these plans are going to make our health service a whole lot worse. The NHS is ripe for revolution | Ian Birrell
I am not some vapid stick insect, prey to self-loathing and body fascism. Times, Sunday Times
The glaze is also a good way to cover up a crack in the top of the cake if it happens to stick in your bundt pan. Cookies n’ Cream Pound Cake | Baking Bites
There were the appallingly untalented, removed from that friendly mirror in their bedroom, dancing like stick insects with St Vitus dance and impaling themselves on hideous voices.
Slide a lollipop stick into each apple wedge, without going the whole way through. Times, Sunday Times
- "was to police officers a matter of making it stick in Court, covering every legal eventuality. A WORM OF DOUBT
Wretched village women, deceived by knaves, and still more by the weakness of their own imaginations, believed that after pronouncing the word “abraxa,” and rubbing themselves with an ointment mixed with cow-dung and goat’s hair, they went to the sabbath on a broom-stick in their sleep, that there they adored a goat, and that he enjoyed them. A Philosophical Dictionary
Throughout the day, people play cards or leisurely shoot some stick in the poolroom.
Milan Baros Inspired the Czech Republic to come back from a two-goal deficit in a display that will stick in the memory for a magical equalising goal.
He threw a stick into the river and the dog went after it in a flying leap .
‘Der Erste Psalm’ is a joyous and intrinsically motivated work with some memorable string writing and big bold choruses that are surely written to stick in the memory!
Jarmusch is the director who puts the loose in "allusive" and the lipstick in "elliptical"; I fully recognize his movies aren't to everybody's taste. News & Politics

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