STUCK in a Sentence

Learn STUCK from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
166 example sentences for STUCK, such as:
1. I stuck my foot in my mouth.
2. I'm stuck here for the duration.
3. The paper is stuck to my finger.
4. The boy stuck his finger up his nose.
5. The nurse stuck the needle into my arm.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of STUCK
stuck
 a.  caught or fixed
Classic Sentence: (127 in 9 pages)
1  With a sudden wrench she seized the ring but it stuck.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  Uncle Henry went limping by, hatless in the rain, his head stuck through a hole in a piece of old oilcloth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
3  The heavy hominy stuck in her throat like glue and never before had the mixture of parched corn and ground-up yams that passed for coffee been so repulsive.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
4  Her long hair was drenched in sweat and her gown stuck in wet spots to her body.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
5  She swallowed and swallowed but a sudden dryness seemed to have stuck the sides of her throat together.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
6  Light wavered into the room as Pork entered carrying high a half- burned candle stuck in a saucer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
7  He tilted back in his chair and stuck his hands in his pockets.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
8  In these spots the mud was ankle deep and her slippers stuck in it as if it were glue, even coming completely off her feet.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
9  Scarlett tried to join politely in the laughter but she did not see any point to the story except that Creoles were just as stuck up as Charleston and Savannah people.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
10  Moreover, what Frank had said about the sawmill stuck in her mind.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
11  Of course, she had discovered that this was not altogether true but the pleasant fiction still stuck in her mind.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
12  Peter's sniffles stopped and his underlip began to protrude gradually until it stuck out alarmingly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
13  And even now, with the Freedmen's Bureau promising all manner of wonders, they still stuck with their white folks and worked much harder than they ever worked in slave times.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
14  She stuck by Scarlett's side like a cocklebur.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LV
15  The men shot their cuffs and the women stuck their combs more firmly into their back hair.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence: (39 in 3 pages)
1  We got stuck in a traffic jam on the approach road.
2  The nurse stuck the needle into my arm.
3  He went there to ask her pardon, but the words stuck in his throat.
4  I can't open my bag - the zip has stuck.
5  Fred stuck with his homework until it was done.
6  The playbill was stuck down on the wall.
7  The doctor stuck my finger with a needle to get blood sample.
8  He has stuck with me as a candidate for President.
9  They persistently stuck him with fund collection.
10  Left out in the heat of the sun, tapes easily warp or get stuck in their cases.
11  The paper is stuck to my finger.
12  The boy stuck his finger up his nose.
13  I stuck my foot in my mouth.
14  They stuck a gun in his ribs and made him fork over all his money.
15  I'm stuck here for the duration.