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Definition of Stickier
1. sticky [adj] - See also: sticky
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stickier
Literary usage of Stickier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Thirty Years in Australia by Ada Cambridge (1903)
"The Bush track became softer and softer, stickier and stickier, the dreadful bogs
of its deeper parts more and more difficult of negotiation by the poor ..."
2. Thirty Years in Australia by Ada Cambridge (1903)
"The Bush track became softer and softer, stickier and stickier, the dreadful bogs
of its deeper parts more and more difficult of negotiation by the poor ..."
3. With Lord Methuen in South Africa, February 1900 to June 1901: Being Some by Hugh Selwyn Gaskell (1906)
"There was no means of washing it, and I wondered vaguely how condensed milk
behaved under those circumstances—whether it dried, or got stickier and stickier ..."
4. The Journal of Geography (1915)
"... from the original prairie soil by its lighter color, its stickier character,
and the presence of black iron. The prairie soil is the black upland soil. ..."
5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1876)
"At first our road lay along a grassy level plain, but gradually we began to get
into the " Slough of Despond,'' the mud getting deeper and stickier, ..."
6. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1879)
"... supply of buns inadequate to demand, youthful tumbles in efforts to gather
the wild clematis festooning the hedges, downward journey stickier than ever, ..."
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