adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sticky note
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
very
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When full-blown free trade eventually comes, the Windwards will be on a very sticky wicket.
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When completely incorporated, dough will be very sticky .
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Either that, or he was in for a very sticky evening indeed.
■ NOUN
bun
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The police considered this and took him down to the station - for tea and sticky buns .
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Unessential is actually an unfair epithet when applied to sticky buns .
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What it is, though, is the original Philadelphia sticky bun encounter.
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The sticky buns , wrapped in two wax papers, went into his coat pocket.
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The glazed side will now be up and the glaze will run all over the sticky buns and off.
end
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And a sticky end ... marmalade shop to close after a century of trade Read in studio Good evening.
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I can't help but think that it's an unfortunate custom to name children after people who come to sticky ends .
finger
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She ran a sticky finger down the monthly balance-sheet, then checked the figures against the handwritten bank statement.
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There would be sticky fingers everywhere, the result of handling rock, candy floss, oranges.
label
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I'd scan the sticky label in the front to see the book's lineage of fellow-sufferers.
patch
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Evode has gone through a sticky patch .
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During a sticky patch in her relationship with Paul she bedded a 19-year-old holidaymaker in Ibiza.
stuff
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Only a trail of blue sticky stuff all on the gratings.
tape
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Sticking plasters, perhaps made from paper or sticky tape , again in different shapes and sizes, offer choice and comparison.
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Put an old cushion inside a strong plastic bag, sealing it tightly with sticky tape .
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Not posters, fixed with sticky tape or drawing-pins.
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Or could I use a shoebox and sticky tape ?
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Also, do not use large amounts of sticky tape to seal envelopes, as this can render them unusable.
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The lines marked out with sticky tape are where the kerb is going to be under the traffic-scheme proposals.
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Tearing the sticky tape from the front of his torch, he directed its increased light on to the grey metal door.
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Place one half on top of the other to form one large triangle, and stick together with sticky tape .
wicket
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When full-blown free trade eventually comes, the Windwards will be on a very sticky wicket .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bad/difficult/sticky/rough patch
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Even when they knew he was going through a bad patch they would continue to deliver dangerous back-passes to him.
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Every team goes through a bad patch .
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Evode has gone through a sticky patch .
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Having hit a bad patch , financially, I decided I must try for some paid work with my knitting machine.
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Ruefully, she recalled her pleasure at the way the book, after a difficult patch , had begun to develop.
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Sometimes I am a real power pack of efficiency; then I hit a bad patch .
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Talk about hitting a bad patch .
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The Royal Family is certainly going through a rough patch .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a hot sticky day in August
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Add flour to the mixture to prevent it from becoming sticky .
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She wrote the address on a sticky label and stuck it to her computer.
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Something about the sticky humid weather made people feel a little angry.
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The issue of equal school funding remains a sticky political issue.
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There's something sticky on the floor.
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We left Rome on a hot sticky day in August.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Christina went upstairs to her bedroom, peeled off her sticky , crumpled clothes, and jumped into a tepid shower.
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I opened two bottles that I retrieved from the sticky mess on the cabin floor.
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Mum's cakes always sank, and Dad liked eating the sticky part in the middle with a spoon.
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Only a trail of blue sticky stuff all on the gratings.
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She felt hot and sticky and changed her clothes and put on a housecoat.
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So newly divorced Jayojit flies from the States to sticky Calcutta with his son.
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Sweat had made my skin sticky , and had glued rivulets of sand to my spectacles.
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Then she saw the bear stuck to the sticky ox.