Sentence examples for it stick for from inspiring English sources

"There's also the pencil test: does it stick?" For the Red Sox, none of the aesthetics matter all that much.

"You gain attention, you get the Wimbledon effect, but how do you make it stick?" For Brailsford, the answer lay in deconstructing the sport and the mentality of cyclists, and building a team from first principles.

That sense of newness was central to Snowflakes, but the glee that he took in these boundless possibilities is what made it stick for me.

Because they were so poorly shaped, the buds would constantly fall out of my ears, so that every three steps I would have to lift up one of my arms to shove the dangling bud back into my auditory canal, making it stick for at least another five seconds, until it would inevitably fall out again.

And it stuck for some reason.

"If it sticks for 12 hours, then there will be a phased withdrawal from the city," he said.

Soon after joining the school, Harry acquired the nickname "Elmer"; neither he nor anyone else knew why, but it stuck for the rest of his life.

Boyer continues: In other words, the more Clinton and Obama keep talking about how inexperienced the other is, the more it sticks for both.

He taught me molecular biology so well that it stuck for the last 10 years.

My dad probably told me this story when I was eight years old, and it stuck for a reason.

You can't ask for more in a bourbon -- except that it stick around for a while.