stick-at-it-ive

Definitions

Examples

• Added to drinking water at concentrations of around one part per million, fluoride ions stick to dental plaque.

• He wore white gloves, a dignified long black coat, and matching pants and vest, and he carried a dark walking stick.

• After some animated debate at the conference, Lelaie declared, with some frustration, “If you push on the stick, you will fly.”

• The birds poop all over the forest, and thanks to the viscin, the mistletoe seeds in said poop stick to branches.

• And for Larry Flynt, this might be a monumental opportunity to stick it to the dictator the best way he knows how.

• You see, they always butter their chairs so that they won't stick fast when they sit down.

• Tressan was monstrous ill-at-ease, and his face lost a good deal of its habitual plethora of colour.

• Whoever succeeded in getting the ring on his stick won the game, and carried the prize home as a sign of victory.

• A fellow rudely clad—a hybrid between man-at-arms and lackey—lounged on a musket to confront them in the gateway.

• By using his walking stick he discovered that they formed a trail to a point in the wall.