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  • 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.
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  • 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.
  • a man with a mule got my car unstuck
  • We stuck to tea and scones with requisite clotted cream. Times, Sunday Times
  • The barrels of the .30 calibers were stuck in the ground.
  • If she was stuck with wanting a man whose background and conditioning were alien to her, then that was her problem.
  • After travelling for some time, Van der Stucken was appointed kapellmeister at the Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and
  • Everything will work fine, but unfortunately your phone will be stuck in restore mode until you jailbreak it, which is what we're doing next.
  • I am having this recurring nightmare that I will be stuck in traffic for so long that I will die and my body decompose beyond recognition before anyone notices.
  • Uh , hi . I'm Philip Stuckey, Edward Lewis's lawyer. - Where's the guest of honor?
  • Well, she's stuck in this rat trap now, so I can't say I blame her.
  • Stuck between the pages of the book was a loose sheet of paper, folded in four, and crisp and white, clearly not old like the book.
  • I don't remember seeing del's recommendation of Alioto's but the wharf is big and we mostly stuck to pier 39. I'm going to be in Oregon mid September doing a little sightseeing along the coast on Highway 101 with my wife.
  • Presently I saw a man leaning on a two-strand barbed-wire fence, the wires fixed not to posts but to crooked tree limbs stuck in the ground.
  • Depardieu's flick-knife is stuck in his stomach, and the dying man's description of his attacker is pointedly applicable to Depardieu. Archive 2008-08-01
  • Have you ever been stuck for something to wear to complete an outfit?
  • There is a piece of soggy tissue stuck to the bottom of my shoe. Times, Sunday Times
  • If the reform stuck to a market-based insurance system - so went the reasoning - access could be within reach of more people without causing disruptions to those benefiting from the status quo. Anja Rudiger: With all eyes on the 'market,' health reform overlooked human rights
  • Surgeon's stuck in a mess of an appendectomy ," he heard the clerk say. DO NO HARM
  • Perhaps he should have stuck to writing.
  • It was reminiscent of the television commercial which shows a cheating singer being chased out of a platteland town when a record he mimes to gets stuck.
  • Speaking afterwards, Mr Glass said:" My left hand was covered in superglue and I stuck it to his sleeve. Archive 2008-07-01
  • Alternatively, you've stuck with increasingly burdensome friendships or relationships. Times, Sunday Times
  • A pilot whale died last Sunday morning after getting stuck in the Sullom Voe in Shetland. WalesOnline - Home
  • Sorry, for 2 days now I have been stuck in Gollum-mode, drooling over the iPhone. IWants it!
  • The engineer hastily tore away the paper and took up five or six glass photographic negatives, of a half-plate size, which were damp, and stuck together by the gelatine films in couples. Martin Hewitt, Investigator
  • I smiled sympathetically, but was more worried about who I was going to be stuck with.
  • Occasionally rorqual skulls have been discovered in which the long lower jaws have been stuck wedged inside various of the skull openings and with their tips protruding like tusks. From cigar to elongated, bloated tadpole: rorquals part II
  • This week, we got the clue about the French Protestants of the Reformed Tradition, and the one about St Paul's Letter to the Galatians, but got hopelessly stuck on the clue that simply said "discombobulated". Archive 2008-02-01
  • The following trailer has Tricia Helfer, Emerson from Pushing Daisies and that guy from Fringe who died, got stuck in Olivia's head then really disappeared: May 2009
  • The strands of barley's beard can get stuck in an animals mouth because it is sharp.
  • The game was stuck in the middle of the pitch for long periods as both teams cancelled each other out and the referee constantly whistled for minor offences stopping either side gaining momentum.
  • To assemble it, you put the pencil stub into the hole of the spool and stuck the pin straight up in the middle of the eraser.
  • The sword stuck fast in a crack in between two of the stone blocks.
  • The car got stuck in the mud.
  • Dam u I-z gunna haf dat choon stuck in ma hedz all days nao The living dead - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • But I drift from the point, which is: what is a sane, accomplished, professional clarinet player to do while stuck out in the boondocks?
  • Bronwyn stuck two fingers in her mouth and whistled, a high, piercing sound.
  • Nick probably hears worse from the little ladies whose cats get stuck up trees.
  • The issue seems to have become stuck between two government departments with neither taking overall responsibility for a plan of action. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sensing trouble, Daniel shook his head and stuck his chocolate wafer into her cone.
  • Then I opened up my bipods, stuck the barrel through, and got comfortable.
  • Scragg, meanwhile, stuck to her graymare, and went bumping along to the admiration of all beholders, and was soon out of sight: luckily a joskin, who witnessed my dear aunt's immersion, ran to her assistance, and, with the help of his pitch-fork, safely landed her; for unfortunately the pond was not above three or four feet deep! and so she missed the chance of being an angel! Sketches — Volume 05
  • It seems scarcely credible that he has been stuck on 14 majors for more than four years. Times, Sunday Times
  • We once got stuck in a blizzard for six hours.
  • The subadar major stuck to Lieutenant Cassells, and it is to him the lieutenant owes his life. The Story of the Malakand Field Force An Episode of Frontier War
  • He tapped me on the forehead, smacked my butt, and even stuck his finger in my ear.
  • Taps that had dried up long ago stuck out from the walls and the floor was strewn with garbage.
  • It may derive, distantly, from8 the ancient Greek practice of offering to Artemis, goddess of the hunt and of the moon, a round honey cake into which a candle was stuck.
  • She's stuck!" yelled, or as he himself would put it, "bawled," the Prophet. Le Petit Nord or, Annals of a Labrador Harbour
  • It is a pity that a book that has such detail is unable to overcome the obstacles of intricacy without leaving the reader stuck in the quagmire of literary and historical obscurity.
  • stuck to the plain facts
  • All I can say is that I'll certainly be expecting my men to get stuck in and it's up to the referee after that to decide what s a fair tackle and what s a foul tackle.
  • A violently lettered poster stuck to the glass commanded UNITE. THE WHITE DOVE
  • The doctor stuck my finger with a needle to get blood sample.
  • Now its good we can come here for an afternoon rather than be stuck indoors or in the garden.
  • If you roll a misfire for the bounce the cannon ball has stuck in the ground and does not bounce. 6.
  • She destroyed my collages and stuck sharp objects through my notebooks when Susannah and me weren't around to stop her, which wasn't often, but often enough.
  • Won a championship and 128 regular season games in 2 seasons … and rondo is uncoachable? this is becoming fabrication after fabrication … .. and do they know if mike conley and rudy gays attitudes are any better? stoudemires? stuckeys? CelticsBlog
  • The proportion at the required level has stuck at 75 per cent in English for the third year running.
  • Long threads of primrose yellow stuck to the back of my moist neck, my hair thick, lengthy, down around my shoulders.
  • You might think so look at the implied colouration but a writer can easily come unstuck trying to blend the two. Archive 2010-02-01
  • Fortunately there's a six-game home stand stuck in the middle of the March gauntlet that makes those two weeks tolerable.
  • Because if He wouldn't do that, we'd just remain stuck in our illusions, unclear on the idea that God can do it all.
  • He made us see it was as if this soldier were on his way to Washington to help strategise for D-day and instead gets stuck in this Podunk town where he meets this guy, Woody, who thinks he's just gone off the deep end.
  • He stuck their faces on giant billboard ads across the country, only to suffer the ignominy of their returns languishing at the bottom of the performance tables. Times, Sunday Times
  • Once finished, I noticed a rasbora on the carpet looking a little sere with a pillow feather stuck on its body. "It's okay to eat fish 'cause they don't have any feelings..."
  • Get stuck in, close the big stars down and make life difficult. The Sun
  • The computer this is being typed on will presently be packed into its shipping box, stuck in a truck for several days, and then a garage for a month.
  • If it fails, the Democrats will be seen as having broken their promises and/or having once again bungled an opportunity to fix the health care mess, and we could again be stuck with the Republicans for years. Sebelius: There will be competition with private insurers
  • 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.
  • But he added: If you got stuck with a 50p rate of tax for a long period, particularly if people felt it was permanent, then there is a risk not only that some people might decide to resite overseas, but particularly where firms and leadership teams face a choice of coming to the UK or some other business centre, that they might not opt for the UK. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • He would not have stuck his head above the parapet without some form of political cover, never mind without a possible financial backer behind the scenes.
  • She has a recurring nightmare about being stuck in a lift.
  • Mr Duddy spent a day stuck on the sheer sides of the cone before managing to crawl out on his own.
  • So many young singers fail because they are stuck with teachers who overcomplicate. Times, Sunday Times
  • They persistently stuck him with fund collection.
  • He dumped a heavy rucksack on the floor and stuck his hands into the pockets of his jeans.
  • The asbestos fibres got stuck in the hand-knitted socks and jumpers.
  • Gibraltar has had to set up special holding zones for cars and pedestrians stuck in stifling heat. The Sun
  • In the outland beyond the city people naturally have stocks on hand, because you never know when the weather will take down your juice and you'll be stuck in the house in February behind four-foot drifts with no phone and no lights.
  • My breath was stuck in my stomach, my limbs benumbed, my senses catapulted into a no-go area where terror meets exhilaration.
  • How about figuring out what the trip tik is supposed to be for the 3 remaining years so the rest of us can get somewhere other than this dank and dark place you have us stuck in now. CNN Poll: Obama approval under 50 percent
  • The bucket had been stuck on the animal's snout, hanging like a feedbag, preventing it from eating or drinking.
  • If we come unstuck in this game, it is about what we can do in the next one. The Sun
  • I think what you can argue is we're stuck in neutral. Obama Faces A New Political Reality
  • I wanted to tell her, but the words stuck in my throat.
  • If rates remain stuck at ultralow levels, investors may return to the asset class simply for the yield, says Hans Olsen , head of Americas Investment Strategy at Barclays Wealth. Not Dead Yet: What to Do With Your Bets on Rising Rates
  • I came across a sign the other day, inelegantly scrawled on cardboard and stuck to a telephone pole.
  • She had been stuck there for 45 minutes and the cliff ledge had actually gave way so she was hanging by her arms off tufts of grass. Times, Sunday Times
  • And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmovable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves. The Dor�� Gallery of Bible Illustrations
  • The cab stopped with a jerk that justified Wolfe’s attitude toward machinery, and the hackie stuck his head out and objected. The Black Mountain
  • As a lad, he used to race bikes and his brother blessed him with the name of Bob-man, which has stuck like glue ever since.
  • Although I've only recently stuck my toe in the fast-moving blogstream, I've been a fan -- and an advocate -- ever since bloggers took the Trent Lott/Strom Thurmond story, ran with it, and helped turn the smug Senate majority leaderinto the penitent former Senate majority leader, a bit of bloody political chum floating in a tank of hungry sharks. April 2004
  • The American courts for criminal procedure have stuck to a strong tradition of oppressing the fruits of the poisonous trees.
  • Now, a tenement is not a building that is stuck up in a ramshackle way on one of the streets in the lowest ward of the city. Problems of Population
  • The asbestos fibres got stuck in the hand-knitted socks and jumpers.
  • Vase of St. Martin, which is as follows: when St. Martin visited the Martyr's Field at Agaune, he prayed for some time, and then stuck his knife into the ground, and was excusably astonished at seeing blood flow forth. Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance
  • The economy will eventually turn around and it will happen soon, unfortunately americans have become so clueless, partisan and ingrateful, that america will be stuck in soul less and angy recovery for years to come. Obama: Jobs news 'modestly encouraging'
  • My mind and body screamed at me but I was stuck, unable to move.
  • While we were required to take up these presents, I chanced to cast an eye upon the table, where there lay a fresh service of cheese-cakes and tarts, and in the midst of them a lusty rundlet, stuck round with all sorts of apples and grapes, as they commonly draw that figure. The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter
  • So I thought until I was stuck in traffic for a good hour and a half on elmwood, as drunk irish frat guys screamed "HEY" to me, or someone else in the road. Drunk & Irish
  • On the way out, I was stuck behind a guy pulling a howitzer on a trailer that was covered in confederate flag stickers.
  • Throughout, National Grid has stuck to its position that the new line was needed to ensure security of supply when new gas-fired power stations came on stream.
  • He stuck her photos in the album.
  • Spenser should have stuck to his guns and been satisfied with unity of design.
  • Apparently girls whose cars are stuck in mud is an emerging sexual fetish. Boing Boing: January 25, 2004 - January 31, 2004 Archives
  • We have to get stuck into him and slog him out of the attack. The Sun
  • It's about being stuck in the sticks with a bust radio, a girl called Megan and some wolfy things in the woodshed.
  • It was followed by one from Janet who discovered a pencil-shaped parcel stuck beneath the bannister with Sellotape. ADRIENNE AND THE CHALET SCHOOL
  • The sun was shining outside, but it didn't change the wintery cold that stuck to the windows and tried to enter the warm room.
  • The captain named the house the Retreat, but the name never stuck and by 1853 it was known as St David's.
  • If the businessman had stuck the scrote who wrecked his Christmas lights in a cage, perhaps the police would have prosecuted the vandal and not the victim.
  • Alex shrugged as she dug out a small chunk and stuck it in her mouth and groaned in heartfelt appreciation.
  • We stuck our shoes on and went out the back to the car.
  • 'Couldn't see 'em fer cinders,' he described it, and the monica stuck by me .... Local Color
  • When push came to shove, I stuck up for him.
  • That was not so bad, but it turned out that the pedlar was a woman, and she came with a rawhide and camped in the office for two days waiting for Jimmy, while he came in and out of the back door, stuck his copy on the hook by stealth, and travelled only in the alleys to get his news. In Our Town
  • She didn't say anything when he unwound her arms from around him and pulled her shirt over her head, peeled her underwear off and stuck her under the running water.
  • People stuck outside were getting pecked by thousands of birds at a time.
  • Until this ridiculous overemphasis on sprinting and short course competition is reversed, the United States is going to remain stuck on a long downhill slide in competing with the rest of the world.
  • Sometimes you discovered a fresh shallow grave topped with a wooden cross or a boltless rifle stuck muzzle-down into the mud with a helmet on top of it. ONE SHOT-ONE KILL
  • They stuck to their system with one forechecker and four guys back. USATODAY.com - Hockey - Los Angeles vs. Nashville
  • She became stuck on a narrow ledge and was only rescued after the fire brigade was called out.
  • That said, nearly all four-wheel-drive cars are equally capable of amazing their owners by getting stuck on little more than a mildly sloping croquet lawn.
  • You are stuck here sharing in the hopelessness and breathing the putrid air for the next seven days.
  • The visitors stuck to their task and after a series of rucks and mauls the ball was switched to the blindside for Toby Pemberton to drive over.
  • Gavin seems happier than I've ever seen him in Bachelor world, where he lives the life of supermodel Sultan, wooing compliant, star-stuck ladies in deserted theme parks, providing them with burlesque ie stripping classes, going on excursions to clifftop picnics where shrieking fillies are made to hurtle across the cliffs by Tarzan slide, clinging round his powerful torso. The Bachelor: Grace Dent's TV OD
  • In some cases, entrails of slaughtered animals are served back to others ‘stuck in the queue’ at slaughterhouses.
  • John / Halcyon stuck a mental tag in the folds of my brain: optimism tax.
  • He swayed, then crashed to the stone floor and the grease keg unstuck from his foot with a 'chug' and rolled across the garage, rattling as it struck the old debris, and bounced into the greasing pit. Funeral In Berlin
  • Her carefree sloganeering can be maddeningly fatuous, occasionally making the reader feel as though he or she is stuck behind a car covered in bumper stickers.
  • I had just spent seven years in an English public school, a school which in terms of its attitudes, beliefs and judgements was not so much out of date as stuck in a time warp, back in the nineteenth century.
  • “Who you calling stuck-up when you all up in other people’s business?” Drama Queens
  • Literary critics described these works as muscular Christianity, and the name stuck.
  • This time, though, Chinless Wonder stuck his head out of the van and said something to the rider before he went.
  • If we don’t want to define ourselves by things as superficial as our appearances, we’re stuck with the revolting alternative of being judged by our actions. Ellen Degeneres 
  • The room was half filled with elderly contessas and solitary, beef-eating gourmands, with napkins stuck in their collars.
  • But lest anyone though he had been rewarded too much, he's now stuck in a grotty bedsit facing years on the waiting list for a council home. The Sun
  • The change we need: four ways to fix fcc. gov - The Bush administration is coming to an end, but the FCC web site is still stuck in the Clinton administration. Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
  • It seems the cat had been stuck there for 12 days.
  • Cyril has stuck his beak in controversy throughout his career.
  • The incident stuck in my mind because it was the first example I had seen of racism in that country.
  • 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
  • Black is a rook for bishop ahead but has problems because his knight on c4 is stuck. Times, Sunday Times
  • Reeking of managerial sub-thinking, the words chosen to sum up the new policy also sum up the current predicament of the party as a whole: stuck in the middle, unambitious and lazy.
  • The blizzard winds had come in much sooner than they normally did and he and the maids had been stuck in the compound for three weeks.
  • The envelope was stuck between the inner and outer casing of the machine. Times, Sunday Times
  • There was one pen stuck in the ceiling. Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
  • But, alas, I imagine that Ickes and Carville will still be stuck, remora like, to the Party's underbelly for years to come. Harold Ickes Confirms That Wright Is Key Topic In Discussions With Super-Delegates
  • When the other kid made to shove past Dustin, I stuck my foot into the aisle and sent him flying.
  • She put her arm round his neck, touching the side of his cheek and her fingertips stuck to its surface.
  • Looking at a paper, he found his locker; put his hand on the lock, only to realize there was taffy intentionally stuck there.
  • Because the water in the lake was very low, a couple of huge stones stuck out.
  • But it was the name that the French gave to this island that stuck, gori. CNN Transcript Jan 15, 2005
  • I managed to get rid of the parents, & high spiritedly returned to my room to unpack everything save the suitcase; I even stuck some posters on the wall.
  • Of course, everyone knows that on the most crisp and beautiful of days, everyone must be stuck indoors.
  • They didn't want to get stuck out here in the wilds, where anything might happen, and nothing could be counted on. DESPERADOES
  • The storm stuck with elemental fury.
  • To be locked up with one safe-blower is enough, and now you've stuck three murderers into this rotten hole. The Madness of May
  • When he finally turned away his shirt was stuck to his back and chest both. A Time of War
  • So you have a Republican Party that is splintered and fanaticized and a Democratic Party that is really a moderate Republican Party stuck to the teat of Corporate America and unwilling to let go. The Lost Children
  • A Microsoft employee once accused Google of throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what stuck; about halfway through Ballmer's ultimate keynote at CES, I'm pretty sure I was struck in the face by some half-cooked linguini. Jason Gilbert: Wait, How Weird Was That Microsoft Keynote?
  • And if you're stuck in a truly uncomfortable situation, speak with a flight attendant.
  • While climbing out of the window, his neck got stuck and it appears he was unable to breathe and suffocated.
  • Left out in the heat of the sun, tapes easily warp or get stuck in their cases.
  • The nurse stuck the needle into my arm.
  • Things really get interesting, however, when a piece of paper covered in symbols is found stuck in the victim's sock. Castle Episode Recap: "Under the Gun"
  • Despite his ability for discernment and honesty, you still come away thinking he is stuck in a life of cliched fixations.
  • But the stupid image has one scary point, besides looking too stuck-up.
  • If you narrow yourself down to one particular year, sometimes you'll get stuck with 365 days of sucky music and, then what?
  • I think she felt it was belittling her loss so I got stuck in and several letters later we got a result.
  • He stuck down the envelope and dropped it into the mailbox.
  • I vaguely remember, you thin lips stuck on my forehead carefully,as if the whole world becomes quiet.
  • An old man was staring at her so she stuck her tongue out at him.
  • His hair was the brown of sodden straw, and it stuck out at awkward, seventeen-year-old angles, wet and comb it howsoever much he tried. STARDUST
  • No one was in the car stepping on the brake pedal and after investigating, it became clear to me that for some reason the light was stuck on.
  • She is a Muslim woman from Bandra Bazar Road , and she is unhappy , she votes for the Congress , but she finds that it has not helped her much , she has come to meet Rahebar Khan the local corporator, she cant take life anymore, her electric bill has trebled , prices of all essential commodities has skyrocketed and she is stuck in a groove of discontent. Archive 2009-08-01
  • He stuck me for thousands of dollars.
  • At one point in The Banker, young protagonist Heartwell is stuck in arrears with uncurrent paper money worth a fraction of its face value as his only available funds. Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840
  • What surprised many is how assiduously he stuck to the idea once it had become politically counter-productive. THE GUARDSMEN
  • I taught elementary German to a series of chinless wonders, depressing myself as much as them and stuck at it for about two years. THE ENDLESS GAME
  • I even stuck some posters on the wall.
  • I stuck playdough on the anti-dependent rim until the wheel no longer had a preferred resting point. Technical FAQ with Lennard Zinn: Chainring flex, mid-foot cleats, bottom bracket drilling and more
  • Stuck in a rather dull but well-paid job? Times, Sunday Times
  • The next morning, all bandaged up, I stuck out my thumb and caught a ride to Tay Ninh.
  • So it looks like we're still stuck with this political heavyweight. The Sun
  • The medical fact is that chewing gum and eating meat causes chronic damage to the periodontium integumentium, which is the area in which tooth lice dine on stuck particles of your ham and cheese sandwich. Maggie's Farm
  • For my part, I did not embark in trade myself, having no capital, but I accepted the offer of a Gentoo merchant to lend him the use of my dustuck to cover his goods, for which he paid me handsomely. Athelstane Ford
  • And as Judge Elizabeth Gloster mulls it all over, London-based Boris offers advice to those still stuck in his homeland, oppressed by his enemy Putin. Hugh Muir's diary
  • The only possible way I could have seen England coming unstuck would have been if they had allowed complacency to creep in. The Sun
  • Babies born to obese women face a higher risk of death, stillbirth, congenital abnormality, shoulder dystocia – where a baby's shoulder becomes stuck during birth – and an increased likelihood of childhood obesity. Mothers who lose weight before further pregnancy 'reduce risks'

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