• She is on morphine, walks with a stick and needs a gall bladder operation.
• A motorist walked with a stick as he took the stand at an inquest to describe a crash that left another driver dead.

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• The man should not be playing a game that involves sticks and blades.
• Though the majority of players use one-piece sticks, the curve of the blade still often requires work.

• She strikes me as a no-nonsense gal, the sort of English rose, raised on tea and hockey, who'd be calm in a crisis and know how to make splints out of ice lolly sticks.
• If I were working on a larger scale I'd use a wooden lolly stick, sharpened appropriately, and dipped into Indian Ink.
• I used to sneak outside with a lolly stick and help them climb back out.

• Goddard, the man with the magic touch, could do no wrong and sent the ball straight between the sticks from the touchline.
• Other clubs in the top division are not having the same crises of confidence between the sticks where there is an undisputed number one.

• We don't have a sofa, a coffee table, a mirror, a desk - not a stick of furniture to call our own.
• ‘Ceilings have collapsed, floors have been damaged and there is not a stick of furniture anywhere,’ Hine says.
• His inability to lie means that he has trouble selling a stick of furniture in his position as a salesman with the Jack Jones Office Furniture Company.

• From his other bag, where he kept the food, he took a few sticks of cinnamon, a grater, and several apples.
• There are, of course, a few sticks of gum, and I pop one in my mouth as I walk out the room.
• Sheesh, anyone would think those were real sticks of dynamite…

• His legs are like sticks, and it's hard to imagine how they will ever function properly again.
• They've got these big lollipop heads and tiny little bodies that look like sticks.
• The thighs are like sticks, shiny and straight.

• He had drawn little stick figures of the class without knowing it.
• All the others were drawing peace symbols and stick figures with clothes holding hands over the earth in the background.
• But with God as my witness, I found that I was incapable of drawing convincing stick figures.

• The design is almost exactly as a million schoolboys imagine it - arms with control sticks come out from the pack and fit under my own.
• The pilot does so and lets go of the control sticks.

• I pictured the insides of his refrigerator being nothing but an expired carton of orange juice and a stick of butter.
• I used 1 1/4 sticks butter and that was enough to hold the bread crumbs and nuts together.

• Before she had a chance to sip away she was herself attacked by the supply ship's escorts and supporting aircraft, at least one of which dropped a stick of bombs.
• But the art of this two-track war is more than offering a care-package carrot in lieu of a stick of iron bombs.

• They normally come in for a lot of stick and criticism from the public.
• I got some severe stick for that, mostly from people who don't take the trouble to read carefully and think about the words.
• We got quite a lot of stick when we first moved there.

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• His men decapitated an opposition fighter's corpse and stuck his head on a post as a warning.
• By the time they reach their teens, the kids will probably have exhumed my body and stuck my head on a pike.
• The recruitment sergeant reputedly stuck a havercake on the top of his bayonet as an enticement for the tykes to enlist.

• When they are extricated, one of them is unconscious and has a steel rod sticking into his temple.
• Little flags on sticks, stuck into the ground around a tree where an informal memorial had been created by visitors.
• It came back down and stuck into the ground right between them.

• If you stick a pig it squeals.
• I was in the country and was entirely occupied with running down hares, and sticking salmon.

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• Her blonde hair was messy, sticking up in all directions.
• His short hair was now messy, sticking up in different directions.
• There were boards with nails sticking up everywhere.

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• We stuck our shoes on and went out the back to the car.
• The waitress set down a small gas range on the table, stuck an oiled tray on top, and poured on a mixture of greens and spicy chicken.
• You've turned up the heating, you've stuck an extra sweatshirt on, and still you're shivering.

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• Then got angry and told him where he could stick his job, and put the phone down, vowing that I was never going to speak to him again.
• The employer - he really deserves to be named - was told in the crudest language possible where to stick the job.
• She replied that if he really thought that, he could stick his job.

• They have stuck me for $50.
• He stuck me for thousands of dollars.
• They're sticking him for $2 grand, baselessly claiming it's his fault.

• I am about to stick a 1st class stamp on the envelope when I have the nagging feeling that it might weigh more than the 60g maximum.
• He then asked if he could borrow some tape to stick some papers together.
• Alternatively, you could cover the outside of the vase in double-sided adhesive tape, then stick large leaves vertically around it.

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• The name stuck; soon came a website, and 4000 members.
• The advert was soon forgotten, but the name stuck.
• The captain named the house the Retreat, but the name never stuck and by 1853 it was known as St David's.

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• In card games, the quandary is often whether to stick or twist.

• While practicing on one of them, he noticed that mechanics of one of the keys, a high C, had gotten stuck, emitting a fixed drone.
• The ship struck the Tricolor at 7.30 yesterday evening and became stuck fast.
• Right in front of me, just below the ledge, is a second chockstone the size of a large bus tire, stuck fast in the three-foot channel between the walls.

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• On the train back, Steve and I raced each other to do the puzzles in consecutive issues of Metro, but I'm hopeless at crosswords and got stuck on mine after two clues.
• Should one get stuck on a puzzle, before looking at the solution there is the option of consulting the hints section.
• My brother in law, who fancies himself as a bit of a genius at crosswords had a go and got stuck.

• But the play ultimately fails, stuck somewhere between limp satire and B-grade existentialism.
• Hospital consultants have been accused of deliberately failing to tell patients stuck on waiting lists that they are entitled to free treatment elsewhere.
• Competition is keen in this particular category as it is an industry stuck firmly in the 1950s.

• Amazingly I found myself laughing along with the group, even if the only reason I remained was because I was stuck at the far end with no escape.
• Fortunately he fancied the river, as it had been blazing sunshine all day and I was sick of being stuck indoors.
• I am so sick of being stuck indoors or running from heating building to car to next heated building.

• Lea was stuck for what to do next - she could go home, stay at my place (I offered her my bed, I was going to sleep on the floor) or go to her parent's place.
• Basically I was stuck for what to call this.
• If Cavan County Council gives Quinn the go-ahead to demolish his house, he won't be stuck for somewhere to stay.

• They were stuck with around 1,000 dumped refrigerators they could not dispose of.
• The town is stuck with the same old ramshackle building.
• Lots of the doubt and anxiety I've been stuck with over the last few months has disappeared completely.

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• She's been very direct with him, tried everything she can think of, but he's completely stuck on her.
• He never wants to lead me on, but because of that, I’m stuck on him.
• I am really stuck on him and my heart is entirely dedicated to him.

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• But working in television can also be exciting, different and ultimately rewarding - if you stick it out and stay determined.
• He told his wife he would stay and stick it out.
• I stuck it out until Sunday, when breathing became difficult.

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