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• The beaver's dam was made out of sticks.   The bird's nest was made out of sticks.
• Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame.
• I found several good sticks in the brush heap.   What do you call a boomerang that won't come back? A stick.
• It is a fine stick, about 70 feet long.
• I found enough sticks in dumpsters at construction sites to build my shed.
• I don’t need my stick to walk, but it’s helpful.
• The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.
• As soon as the fight started, the guards came in swinging their sticks.
• When cutting the door parts, I cut all the copes first, then the sticks.
• We were so poor we didn't have one stick of furniture.
• It is more than poor Philip is worth, with all his savings and his little sticks of furniture.
• Sealing wax is available as a cylindrical or rectangular stick.
• The recipe calls for half a stick of butter.
• Don’t hog all that gum, give me a stick!
• Cigarettes are taxed at one dollar per stick.
• My parents bought us each a stick of cotton candy.
• Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it[...]
• Scores of transport planes streamed in to drop stick after stick of containers until the entire sky over the coast was polka-dotted with brightly coloured parachutes.
• A stick of bombs fell straight across Wotton; blew up half a dozen houses.
• James and I were in the same stick of five guys going through free fall school last September.
• I grew up driving a stick, but many people my age didn’t.
• I grew up driving stick, but many people my age didn't.
• For example: in making a turn, should you throw on too much stick and not enough rudder, you'll sideslip.
• For ultimate presentation portability, a Powerpoint can be saved to a stick as images.
• [...]although the headings may often be in other type, still, as these are composed in the same stick, they cannot fail to justify;[...]
• Arsene, boy, ain't you worried about your clarinet? Where'd you leave that stick, man?
• Tripping with the stick is a violation of the rules.
• His wedge shot bounced off the stick and went in the hole.
• His stroke with that two-piece stick is a good as anybody's in the club.
• He shoots a mean stick of pool.
• Come in, have a good time, drink some beer, shoot some stick, listen to some music.
• I doubted that the three iron was enough stick.
• Vaughn has to hit and keep hitting or this will be another year when the Mets don't have enough stick to win.
• Your father's a great old stick. He's really been very good to me.
• "She's a stick, this one. She lacks your—" he patted her left breast— "equipment."
• The kid was a stick, a plant, a student from UNLV who picked up a few bucks nightly by saying the words "seven of hearts."
• Bill Kirk, described by Robin as a "hell of a stick," didn't even attend college until after the Vietnam War.
• I remember when we dreaded the rain, as our stick of soldiers walked through the damp, tick-infested long grass of the Zambezi valley,[...]
• What about contempt? Isn't it used by the judiciary as a stick to dissuade people from writing or talking about them?
• The child killers got some stick. I saw a woman throw a basin of scalding water over a baby killer.
• He really gave that digging some stick.
• She really gave that bully some stick.
• Give it some stick!
• 'Choir gave it some stick on "Unto Us a Son is Born."' ¶ Cynthia nodded. ¶ 'It was always one of Russell's favourites. He makes them try hard on that.'
• Skunk really gave it some stick all the way to Caliban's place, we passed a good few Coppers but they all seemed to turn the blind eye.
• There was another speech in that day's news — a speech which The Times printed on the front page because it was part of a front-page story, and in full — it was only two sticks long; printed in full just after the much longer invocation by the officiating clergyman [...]
• The stick is employed for eels, and contained twenty-five.
• In the same charter, Nigel granted another 10 sticks of eels yielded by the fishery of Polwere to the abbey[...]
• Problem: A lot of stick and a lack of energy on the forward stroke.
• Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.
• The tape will not stick if it melts.
• The lever sticks if you push it too far up.
• Why do most course organizers stick the job for less than five years?
• His old nickname stuck.
• "Our team did brilliantly to be in the game. We stuck at it and did a good job. This is disappointing but we'll think about the next game tomorrow."
• What I get from work makes me a better mother, and what I get from being a mother makes me a better journalist. At least that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
• Just stick to your strategy, and you will win.
• The First-fruits were a common Oblation to their Deities; but the chief Part of their Worship consisted in sacrificiing Animals : And this they did out of a real Persuasion, that their Gods were pleased with their Blood, and were nourished with the Smoke, and Nidor of them; and therefore the more costly, they thought them the more acceptable, for which Reason, they stuck not sometimes to regale them with human Sacrifices.
• And so careful were they to put off the Honour of great Actions from themselves, and to centre it upon God, that they stuck not sometimes to depreciate themselves that they might more effectually honour him.
• They will stick long at part of a demonstration for want of perceiving the connection of two ideas.
• Some stick not to say, that the parson and attorney forged a will.
• This is the difficulty that sticks with the most reasonable.
• Stick the label on the jar.
• Stick your bag over there and come with me.
• Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.
• The balloon will pop when I stick this pin in it.
• to stick a needle into one's finger
• The points of spears are stuck within the shield.
• In certain of their sacrifices they had a lamb, they sticked him, they killed him, and made sacrifice of him: this lamb was Christ the Son of God, he was killed, sticked, and made a sweet-smelling sacrifice for our sins.
• [...] would haue [=have] sticked him with a dagger [...]
• It was a shame [...] to stick him under the other gentleman's arm while he was redding the fray.
• The defendant said he didn't shoot; "he sticked him with a knife."
• to stick an apple on a fork
• my shroud of white, stuck all with yew
• Once again, the world champion sticks the dismount.
• Stick cuttings from geraniums promptly.
• to stick type
• to stick somebody with a hard problem
• A non-stick pan. A stick plaster.
• A sticker type of glue. The stickest kind of gum.
• I got some stick personally because of my walking attire. I arrived to training fully kitted out in sturdy walking boots.
• Stick this note onto the wall, so we can examine it better.
• Stick this pin onto the board.
• I can’t move it. It’s stuck.
• I can’t get it out. It’s sticking.
• Give me two sticks of dynamite!
• The door stuck.