[
UK
/stˈʌk/
]
[ US /ˈstək/ ]
[ US /ˈstək/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
baffled
this problem has me completely stuck -
caught or fixed
stuck in the mud
How To Use stuck In A Sentence
- I stuck some in once when we were a bit short and the old bat threatened to stop it out of my wages.
- But it is worthwhile teasing this apart a little, unbinding the different aspects of rhetorics lumped together in one component and separating out the semiotic layering (i.e. the use of metaphor and metonym) stuck in with the second. On the Sublime
- In the meantime Esco workers will be stuck with a bad deal.
- Instead, I was stuck in my little dorm room, answering the phone every time it rang in case it was Clay.
- The container had toppled over when the lorry carrying it got stuck in mud.
- The same mythologem is also active in Dylan's opus, where - with the inclusion of the deepest part of the psyche - came to the repetition and extension of the transformation process, explicitly expressed in Dylan's song "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again" from 1966: Expecting Rain
- The two elves approached the last goblin, still stuck to the ground, from both sides.
- I look up, and stuck on any available space on the lighting grid are giant nets filled with balloons.
- So maybe BP isn't the best example yet, but clearly businesses that embrace principles of social entrepreneurship--discovering how to "unstick" society when it has gotten stuck, by changing the system--are having widespread impact in making the new buzzphrase "social value" the litmus test for success for not only social entrepreneurs but profit-oriented businesses, too. Marian Salzman: Reinvention, Part II
- Our lead vehicle became stuck in a volleyball net.