How To Use Sticky In A Sentence

After a bit of a stickybeak at the Queen's Scottish residence of Holyroodhouse, we made the most of the remaining daylight walking the length of the Royal Mile through the Old Town back to the castle, stopping by the Heart of Midlothian. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
Using wire transmission, with long service life, and not sticky paste, silk or nylon thread transmission can be equipped with water-hao to justice system.
The boracic powder was lifted in my absence from the _Pharmacie_ to try and get the first glimmerings of a slide on that sticky creosoted floor. Fanny Goes to War
However, some patients seek help late in the season, when their symptoms have progressed from a runny nose to sticky yellow mucus with red, hot itchy and swollen eyes.
Let me start by saying sorry if this has been posted elsewhere, but I couldn't find it in the sticky and I'm not sure how to search whole questions.

We believe that eventually every major consumer-oriented company will need interactive programming - sticky content - for their Web sites.
Street vendors sell bundles of sticky rice bound in banana leaf. Times, Sunday Times
My fingerboard gets sticky and I get fed-up and want to sit in the garden.
And despite its sweet taste, sticky toffee pudding is often the saltiest. The Sun
Right after we came ashore, we felt the sticky, humid air of the land hit our faces.
I can still remember biting through the coconut-studded chocolate shell into the gloriously sticky, snow-white goo within.
No wonder her work is cutting through the stale, stodgy world of Scottish desserts like a red hot knife through a wodge of sticky toffee pudding.
Shall I tie the parcel or use sticky tape?
And with billions and billions served helpings of the lardaceous potato strips, it's a sticky moment for JamesSkinner'sJames Skinner's Golden Arches, which last October boasted of its initiative to print nutritional data on its packages to help consumers make informed choices about what to eat. Skinner's McDonald's Comes Clean On Fries' Fat
Teriyaki salmon was seared to a questionable degree of firmness and sat on a dais of tepid mash potato with a nastily commercial sticky teriyaki sauce.
It is next to impossible for a fruit bat to avoid the grit, which adheres to the sticky fruit it eats as well as to the animal itself; even as a bat grooms itself, it gets a mouthful of the ash.
But when the adrenaline is pumping to your brain, the hot, sticky blood coursing through your veins, who could resist?
Did Charity lure him into her sticky web? The Sun
When cooked, the mescal is a fibrous, sticky, syrupy substance with a flavor similar to molasses.
I wanted to find out whether it was possible to have an option to 'minimise' the sticky section on any given thread?
She got us to make posters advertising our search and marched us up and down the village streets with our posters and sticky tape. Times, Sunday Times
Artists have, of course, been sticky-fingered for ages, long before the term "appropriation art" was ushered into the lexicon to describe the Pictures Generation. The New Yorker
There was an erroneous assumption that the sticky foam would be used as an anti-personnel weapon, and visions of an agitator with his head covered with a blob of foam prevented a more careful analysis of the intended use of the foam.
This old stamp isn't sticky any more; I shall have to gum it down onto the envelope.
Most workers yearn for a tea trolley stacked with sticky buns. Times, Sunday Times
The paper was too damp, or the ink too sticky, or the gods too angry or something, and it stuck solidly to the acetate that I was printing it from.
Being the incurable stickybeak that I am, I went back thru the archives ’til I found the thread you mentioned. Cheeseburger Gothic » Newly renovated Ladies Lounge.
A person with cystic fibrosis produces thick, sticky mucus that provides a perfect breeding ground for bacterial growth.
These recordings are museum pieces, pulled up from the sticky earth, their crazy-diamond shine still winking through the clay after thirty years
But then the film attempts to jar the viewer with gory scenes like one around a bonfire wherein roasted marshmallows turn mouths and faces into sticky goo. Weekend Weirdness: Animal Collective’s ODDSAC Premieres in NYC; Chuck Norris Does Actionfest; Actor David Sherrill on The Wraith (and a Sequel?); Melvins Versus The Shining; Stussy’s J. Dilla Documentary | /Film
Followed by sticky toffee pudding with malt whisky ice cream. Times, Sunday Times
Junk bonds roared back into favour in the USA during the 1990s but the market has since hit a sticky patch.
Then I added two herbs used by American Indians: the rich, dark-green leaves of plantain for relieving irritated skin and sticky grindelia flowers, or “gumweed,” with their light, fresh scent, to treat the itch of poison ivy and poison oak. The Last Chance Dog
Gradually mix in to form sticky dough. Times, Sunday Times
And then there was CityTime, the gargantuan $700 million looting of the city treasury by sticky-fingered outside consultants hired to build an automated payroll system. Dan Collins: Mayor Bloomberg's Handling of Stephen Goldsmith Firing Not the Problem
The watertight seals over structural joints tend to deteriorate over time as the caulking becomes less sticky and dislodges.
Truffle: The surprise center in every cake is a thinly coated truffle made from two textures of caramel: a sticky-salted caramel and a caramel bavarois mousse as in Bavairan—the recipe adds eggs in addition to the usual cream. A guilt-free, low-calorie, low-fat cake
Any unfancied teams remaining in the competition by that stage have done well to get that far, and can expect to meet a sticky end rather soon.
Add powdered milk until dough feels soft, smooth, and not sticky.
Well, the way I see it, butter either comes melted and all oily and sticky or unmelted and thick and tasting so plain, it's disgusting.
Remember when I was a disco dangle with a spangle sweating in my sticky pocket caning pop and disco dangle darling watching you? Bone Dust Disco
My clothes were caked in hot, sticky washing powder. Times, Sunday Times
The large buds of mountain ash and poplars have a sticky, resinous covering that partially protects them from hungry animals.
When sticky, add hot stock one ladle at a time, stirring until absorbed and the rice creamy with a bite at the centre. Times, Sunday Times
In real life, my family and I were shuffled off to a cramped, airless, plasticky holding area and offered cheap pastries and instant coffee.
It's so muggy and sticky and every time I breathe in, the air feels disgustingly warm and damp.
It sat on the breadboard; someone had used our breadknife to cut part of it into neat, sticky slices... I pressed my palm to my mouth. NIGHT SISTERS
If the weather is sticky, it is humid and not particularly pleasant.
A heavy, damp wind blew from the north, leaving a film on my skin sticky as pinesap. No Mercy
The tamandua feeds on ants and termites which it catches with its long, sticky tongue.
We also found amazing things like the original sticky toffee pudding recipe. The Sun
When sticky, add hot stock a ladle at a time, stirring until it is absorbed and the rice is creamy with a bite at the centre. Times, Sunday Times
While shopping malls aren't known for their creative floral displays, these plants certainly won't look as fake and plasticky in your home as they do in the food court.
The use of Flash technologies saves production time and makes the site more interactive and sticky.
Make your own sticky trap by smearing Vaseline or Tanglefoot on a yellow surface and hang it up close to where the adults congregate.
The web isn't sticky, but slows prey down long enough for the spider to grab dinner and drag it to the den.
The design is ageing and the interior plasticky, but this is the most fun and rewarding to drive of all these small, sporty hatchbacks.
As a contrast, I follow them up with Nigella's Finger Lickin' Ribs, from her book Feast, a deliberately quick recipe designed, apparently, for eating "oozy and sticky" in bed, which cooks at 200C for an hour. How to cook perfect barbecue ribs
The asphalt is sticky black licorice and the traffic lights pulse to a blind man's marching tune.
Surprised, Cody looked up from his sticky bowl of poi to find a pair of blue-uniformed legs on either side of him.
‘It got rid of my frizz but didn't feel gooey or sticky like other products I've used,’ reported one tester with hard-to-manage locks.
The main room is so huge it kills atmosphere and the floor was dirty and sticky.
Don't be left on a sticky wicket. Times, Sunday Times
As to the scientific element in this compromise, De Angelis holds, in his general introduction regarding meteorology, that the main material cause of comets is "exhalation," and says, "If this exhalation is thick and sticky, it blazes into a comet. A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
The building up of ink is one of the best things about the ballpoint, and who cannot remember the smell of the ink as you build up sticky, rich layer after layer.
Her nails are short and not in the least scary, there is no electric tan, deathly blonde hair or sticky lipstick.
After that came the mistletoe to smear the blade, whose sticky sap would ensure free, unstaunchable bleeding ... and the great, thick-bladed steel knife with which to take the trophy skull ... Ripping Time
Physiotherapy helps clear the thick, sticky mucus from the lungs.
One could well imagine an urgent gathering of the ` The Royal & Ancient Order of Sticky Fellows’ with fresh candles in their billycocks, lit and mining tools akimbo; being convened before the Miner in Chief within minutes of my departure.
He had a massive heart attack seven years ago and doctors discovered he had the condition anti-phospho-lipid, a form of sticky blood.
Then it scurries up to the trapped insect, wraps it in a sticky silk cocoon, and stings it to death. Times, Sunday Times
I rolled most of them in toasted coconut, and I tossed the rest in confectioners 'sugar so they wouldn't be sticky. Archive 2009-05-01
At the end of some of the early numbers, there was a sticky few seconds of silence before the requisite applause began.
I wish we had sticky threads, or maybe just a little new poster section.
Very gooey and sticky and gorgeous. Times, Sunday Times
Street vendors sell bundles of sticky rice bound in banana leaf. Times, Sunday Times
And why are they made of shiny, wipe-clean plasticky stuff? Times, Sunday Times
Things are getting pretty sticky in the NFL these days when it comes to the quarterback position.
Others on the move include bats, which have taken to using canals as a seasonal corridor in the warmth, according to a report from British Waterways, and thousands of browntail moth caterpillars, which have spun sticky canopies of cocoons on Canvey island, in Essex, to pupate earlier than usual. The Guardian World News
It was pleasantly cool in the house after the sticky heat outside.
All the meat is free range and the coffee, tea and chocolate are all organic and fair trade, so you can just about justify tucking into the calorie-crazed sticky toffee pudding for afters.
There's the moist, sticky sensation on the tongue, as the gooey melting thickness cloys one's mouth irresistibly.
The dog leash fell from her pocket, and she picked it up, saw its collar… ran her hands along it, and could still feel the sticky substance of slobber.
Had Fletcher needed more fuel, the situation might have gotten a little sticky.
The interior, even on a Calais, still shrieks its distinctly working car roots; a general plasticky look and feel which ill behoves a $50,000 car.
The materiality of the paint and the sticky pull and release of the printing process showed a rough and ready formalism at work.
It is then processed, cooked and eaten in various forms ranging from a sticky treacle to a dry bread.
The sticky boxes are designed to lure their prey with scents of chocolate and other foods.
David HartThe Vows Moment Wobbles the SonnetI've walked the valley path in sticky rainto see the person I met in a caff by luck lost to the world out on a cloddy trackfull of ache, done-for-almost, in foul pain –Enough, I love you. Poems for a wedding
Once our attention is grabbed, sticky ideas refuse to let go, holding our interest by creating in us a need to discover the outcome.
I've got some sticky stuff on my shoe.
Hot, sticky weather such as that we have been having for the last few days simply adds to stress, says Mrs Clarke - and makes it more likely that we will flare out of control.
Google searching the term, the Urban Dictionary defined "glammy" as the "sticky nut sweat" you get when your legs keep rubbing against them in the heat. New York Press
The half-time whistle sounded and traditional sliced oranges were brought round on trays for fans wilting from the sticky heat.
Ignoring citron tart and chocolate orange cake, sticky toffee pudding would be just fine but there was none left.
Within 15 minutes my tart of goats cheese and asparagus was on the table, nicely presented on a square plate with drizzles of sticky balsamic vinegar.
As the day wears on and temperatures spike, perspiration and oil create a sticky film, taking ‘dewy’ to an unflattering extreme.
Their bank manager was sticky about lending them the money they wanted to borrow.
Similarly, the chicken wings come in Thai jelly, a sticky slick of savoury honey coating some very ruddy wings.
I said, for shame, these men will see our slovenliness, these sticky sherry glasses everywhere, these newspapers scattered on the carpets since the maidservants were no more.
For those not familiar with the TUFO tape, it is double-sided tape with a plastic strip covering each sticky side.
Mochi is a sweet made from rice, which is pounded until it forms a kind of sticky goo, a bit like that white PVA glue you used to get at school.
They were easier to use, they had sticky tape instead of safety pins and - blessing of blessings - you could just throw them away when they became soiled.
He slaps some sticky tape over the opening to seal it, takes a deep breath, then plunges it into a bowl of cold water.
As usual, the envy is largely baseless and dumb, but it's sticky and hard to shake.
Could sticky toffee pudding rescue NHS? The Sun
The royal voice resounded through the sticky night air, carried beyond its normal range by an abnormally chilly gust of air.
What was the sticky tape doing there? Times, Sunday Times
When sticky, add hot stock one ladle at a time, stirring until absorbed and the rice creamy with a bite at the centre. Times, Sunday Times
I had barely enough left over for string and sticky tape. Times, Sunday Times
He may have just felt on a sticky wicket. The Sun
But I can tell you - walking into my backyard on a day like today: sunny, perfectly warm without being cloyingly sticky and not a cloud in the sky, inspiration is everywhere. Archive 2009-08-01
Knead the dough on a floured board, dusting with a little flour if it is sticky.
I wonder if it would be a good idea to add sticky thread capability so we can have the equivalent of the 'Stupid Questions' at the top of every forum that needs one.
Anyone who has left a roast out knows that animal fats quickly form into a sticky solid. Times, Sunday Times
The bark of the root contains a kind of rosin or sticky substance, which in taste is something like pine rosin. The Cherokee Physician, or Indian Guide to Health, as Given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor; Comprising a Brief View of Anatomy, With General Rules for Preserving Health without the Use of Medicines. The Diseases of the U. States, with Their Symptom
Page views are a good indication of how sticky your website is.
The film takes its title from a sticky mixture used in Lebanon as a depilatory. 'Incendies' Burns With Mystery, Truth
As the scale attacks the foliage, it eliminates a clear, sticky substance called honeydew.
So, next time someone enjoins you in a chinwag about ‘sticky-business’, you'll certainly have something trivial to add to the conversation besides the price of tea in Tuktoyuktuk.
Sweet, slightly hot and absurdly sticky they will fill the kitchen with that warm, Christmassy aniseed smell you so often encounter in Chinese restaurants.
The latter method ensures that your hands will be covered by sticky ooze guaranteed to attract clouds of annoying flies.
When you remove the pads wash your feet as they will be sticky and gooey from the toxins extracted from your lymphatic system ). More pseudoscience afoot
This is solved by sticking the strawberries to my skin with double-sided sticky tape, which was painful to remove, but the strawberries were delicious.
Where is the barley risotto and sticky toffee pudding of just the other day? Times, Sunday Times
She has a lazy eye, bubbling behind a thrift store sticky patch. Times, Sunday Times
The splitting of the rostellum, curiously enough, never happens without insect aid; but if a bristle or needle be passed over it ever so lightly, a stream of sticky, milky fluid exudes, hardens, and the boat-shaped disk, with pollen masses attached, may be withdrawn on the bristle just as the bee removes them with her tongue. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing
It was a sticky and messy job, thanks to the humid weather and three long days of not taking a bath.
The sticky idea that tests are measures of achievement persists.
Forecasters said the UK would take on a tropical feel, with sticky and muggy weather making conditions unpleasant.
The only sticky part is that when an invitation is sent very close to the event, then the recipient knows he was not on the original list, but most people roll with that.
I'd scan the sticky label in the front to see the book's lineage of fellow-sufferers.
Is the cotton plug or filler in the bottle torn, sticky, or stained, or does it appear to have been taken out and put back?
It's lawyers at 10 paces for Ricki-Lee Coulter and her former manager THINGS are getting sticky in the professional split between Nova jockette Ricki-Lee Coulter and her former manager Lauren Brown, with both sides calling in lawyers. AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
Arven wiped his slimy hands, which were now beginning to get disgustingly sticky.
There are also spindle-backed chairs, bookcases with leather bound tomes and a wallchart with coloured bars of sticky paper showing optimistic staff rotas.
Brown sugar is cassonade (a dry brown sugar, so adjust for moisture in your recipe) or Vergoise, blonde or brune (this is the brown sugar you're familiar with - the soft, slightly sticky, molasses-flavored stuff, in light or dark.) Potiron - French Word-A-Day
Lemon beer tastes like beer but also like lemons, as you might expect: sweet yet pleasantly malty, as if it had been brewed in the sticky old socks of laborers working in the molasses-gathering industry. An Interview with Dean Koontz about The Book of Counted Sorrows
Already the sticky threads entangling him reached out to the farthest corners of time. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
Horoscopes in particular must be the original sticky content, keeping your visitors coming back day after day or week after week.
You won't need to baste the meat as it cooks, but it is a good idea to toss the potatoes around half way through cooking, so that they turn golden and sticky on both sides.
It seems to have been attached with double-sided sticky tape (the back dotted with suspicious looking white squares).
I had barely enough left over for string and sticky tape. Times, Sunday Times
Transfer to a medium mixing-bowl, and add in the flour progressively, kneading the dough until it is no longer sticky and can be rolled into a ball.
The ideal moreish dessert is a sticky pavlova with too much whipped cream and sweetened with several spoons of caster sugar.
Thai families are woofing down servings of roast squid, fish balls and sticky rice.
The hard part is picking from several valuable ideas the single most valuable idea and making it as sticky as possible.
If so, think of me as a sweetie in your pocket that's going to get all sticky and gooey if you let it sit there too long. Times, Sunday Times
+Cap+ 2 to 4 inches broad, ovate, campanulate, then spreading, obtuse, with a cuticle, sticky in moist weather, rarely sprinkled with one or two fragments of the volva, the margin regular, even. Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners
It was a sticky, toffee-like, delicious, crunchy, biscuity, sticky in your teeth kind of affair with the sesame flavouring it with desirable nuttiness.
I'd clearly missed the boat, but being a stickybeak I thought I'd take a peek inside anyway ahead of the official opening that night. AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
He'd left sticky fingermarks all over the glass.
He tucked his arms under his head, noticing with disgust his sticky, tangly hair, itchy with dried blood.
During the ascent it smartly taps the bark, prising off fragments and frequently extracting food from crevices with the tip of its sticky tongue.
Followed by sticky toffee pudding with malt whisky ice cream. Times, Sunday Times
Now she was stuck in a very sticky situation.
Breakfast - a hunk of stale bread, a cup of sweet, sticky tea and a bowl of watery soup - was pushed through the bars of his cell, but he could eat nothing.
My father sliced open a square of sticky rice wrapped in banana leaves.
Not only is this the worst month of the year for hot and sticky weather, but we've had a couple of weeks of absolute train chaos.
For dessert try the mango and sweet sticky rice, 4.95. The Sun
Their relationship is going through a sticky patch and they've decided to have counselling.
Inflation helps the economy deal with sticky wages and prices.
Buds are dried and then put in mason jars and 'burped' -- given occasional breaths of fresh air -- in a regime that cures the pot, turning it sticky and stinky. Reuters: Top News
I felt something wet and sticky in my throat, and I coughed it out in my hand.
Secondly, the preamplified DNA fragments were digested by a restriction endonuclease to form sticky ends, which were then ligated to a designed DNA adapter by ligase.
The process involves putting down a sticky binding agent and then spreading it with tiny stones, or loose chippings.
I must admit that I'm not keen on the return of the 'three most recently replied to topics' idea but if we do bring that back, might sticky topics mess that up a bit?
Last year at the same time the temperature in Korea was in the high 80s and it was very humid and sticky.
Walker stretches double-sided, highly sticky carpet tape between garden stakes in front of the entrance to a burrow.
The sticky tape on the parcel came unstuck and the whole thing came undone.
Sticky bombs given a .8 damage modifier vs Panzer Elite Light vehicles.
Albion almost got off to a flier when James Nestor drove wide but Greyhound showed why they had averaged six goals a game in the competition and the home side had to survive a sticky ten minutes.
Can’t say that curly virgin armhole hairs make my blood gather … but the sticky pop business is pretty good. 2009 February 07 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
On the other side is a fiscal position held together with sticky tape and shoelaces. Times, Sunday Times
It reminds me of old-fashioned hair pomades, except it's not at all sticky or gunky. Times, Sunday Times
Adding sticky-back mirror squares at the back of a shelving system of this sort magnifies the space.
The sweet is sticky.
The patch is very sticky, and shouldn't fall off.
She could feel some kind of sticky slimy ooze running through her fingers.
Peel away the sticky paper.
She held his crushed and somehow empty body against her, deadweight, her fingers sticky and touching his beard. THE LAST RAVEN
The only person who would have an interest in them would be my sticky-fingered brother who's always been too cheap to buy his own.
But there was a sort of bruised quality about her, like an overripe banana, sticky sweet and pulpy. THE SEASON OF LILLIAN DAWES
This fibre contains beta glucans which is what makes oatmeal or oatbran sticky. The Medicine Chest - your family's guide to prescription drugs
The doors of Kirribilli House, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's official Sydney home and neighbouring Admiralty House, the governor-general's Sydney home were thrown open to the public for a bit of a stickybeak. Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
A type of rice grown in the Far East known as glutinous or sticky rice contains no proteinatious gluten and owes its sticky nature to a waxy carbohydrate.
And now his sticky-fingered status has been officially confirmed by U.S. District Judge Deborah Batts, who slammed him this week for not just appropriating, but misappropriating, dozens of works from another artist. When Appropriation Masquerades as Reconceptualized Art
While unloading a couple of sacks of lobster for his chef, Vernon asked me if I could help him out with a very sticky situation.
There is virtually no rain, and little chance of khamsins, the infamous desert sandstorms that begin in mid - to late March and coat the Nile, its shores and inhabitants with layers of sticky sand.
This sticky love quadrangle throws the camp into jeopardy. Christianity Today
Maybe after you find out my blood is ‘way too sticky’ or ‘full of icky crud’ you can use a flashlight to shoot photons through my life systems.
Burning nylon releases noxious gasses and leaves a sticky mess on the land. Times, Sunday Times
But do expect it to be sticky — if you knead it by hand I would keep it to a minimum, rather than overloading it with flour to keep it kneadable. Laura’s Not 7 Grain Multi Grain Honey Bread
When sticky, add hot stock one ladle at a time, stirring until absorbed and the rice creamy with a bite at the centre. Times, Sunday Times
Using sticky yellow polythene sheets, which are erected vertically on the windward side of the fields and nurseries, can help ward off these vectors.
The nation's capital attracts every type of tourist in the sticky summer months.
It seemed to me the whole sticky question of what small children are prepared to eat needed testing.
If he demands sticky toffee pudding, let him have it; you have fruit. Times, Sunday Times
He twisted the lid off the marmalade and put it sticky-side-up beside the toaster.
I vividly recall the rich aroma of warm treacle scones, the sight of Scotch pancakes being flipped over, the taste of sticky jam tarts and the crunch of sugar-topped shortbread.

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