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defend against attack or criticism
He stood up for his friend
She stuck up for the teacher who was accused of harassing the student - rob at gunpoint or by means of some other threat
How To Use stick up In A Sentence
- Stick up our invoice for your cash. The Sun
- Don't allow those big boys to bully you stick up for yourself!
- 'That's a bit unkind,' said Pat 'After all, Sadie's kind and generous and we all like to be friends with her because of those things, not because she's well-off And Pam was a nice little thing, though she's such a swotter j m not friends with her because I want to pick her brains but because there's something rather nice about her, in spite of her head always being inside a book' 'Well, stick up for Prudence if you like,' said Janet I think she's a humbug I can't stick her goody-goody ways Can you, Bobby? ' Summer Term At St Clare's
- Bet they were under the misguided impression that our Parliament would stick up for them but they forgot about vote-catching, and the anti-Englishness of our present government. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
- He has nowhere to stick up his posters.
- The bizzies just stick up for them, minute they're there they're around them.
- Champ an 'stick up for him too; he's good blood, an' ef he did go under for a spell, he ain't no worse 'n the rest, nor half ez bad; for Champ went in _of his own accord -- of his own accord_, "he repeated significantly," an' don't you forget thet, Aileen! Flamsted quarries
- But I would like to stick up for Staffordshire bull terriers. The Sun
- The road itself is pockmarked with shell holes, while unexploded missiles and bombs stick up from the dirt of surrounding fields.
- Don't allow those big boys to bully you stick up for yourself!