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Discover LudwigThe phrase "stick across" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means to extend or stretch something over a surface, usually in a horizontal direction. Here is an example sentence: "The wire was stuck across the room, connecting the two outlets on opposite walls."
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2) Rub the stick across the scratch to fill it.
He once insisted on helping a man with a white stick across Oxford Street.
"Bernie Ecclestone has never driven these," he said, swinging his stick across the vast showroom.
"There's an old woman in a village, walking with a stick across the desert; nothing much happens.
He bent forward at the hip, perspiration dotting the ice below him, resting his stick across his knees.
I am sipping tea with a roomful of men when the sheikh bursts in, sweeping a long stick across the room.
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Jumping fur attached to sticks across the stage, they create the rats.
Mr. Frank was about to do a news conference in Boston with Mr. Solmonese stuck across town.
There were still labels stuck across the glass in the windows, so that it seemed to stare with lifeless eyes at a ruined landscape of red clay.
Sometimes I just wedge a couple of celery sticks across the neck of the jar to keep them under the brine.
Zia supporters and opposition activists fought with guns, bombs and sticks across the country soon after the prime minister gave a televised farewell speech to the nation.
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