Sentence examples for sticking fast from inspiring English sources

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The Cote d'Azur is normally prone to passing squalls, abbreviated downpours, but this front is sticking fast.

Emotions suitably ramped, we're tipped over by 1960s footage of first world war veterans and widows reliving the unimaginable horrors and heartbreaks, one comment sticking fast: "The mud felt like a protective blanket covering me, I thought, 'If this is death it's not too bad.'" Then the dancers, in uniform peat brown, form a trench across the stage and, in a clap of dust, a soldier is shot down.

Passing the navigation marker at speed, the cruiser was suddenly brought to a halt with a juddering lurch, throwing men to the decks and sticking fast in deep mud well outside the harbour mouth.

From a political point of view, Fabius did not gain anything from his open defiance of Mitterrand, and he scored few points for sticking fast to his beliefs on a moral issue.

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The Hivus got stuck fast.

Gandhi stuck fast to his nonviolent principles.

Still citrine-green-new — it sticks fast to the glass.

My ice axe whacked into the slope and stuck fast.

Of course our law, and particularly our procedural law, does not stick fast in the past.

In spite of the turmoil, Byron stuck fast to his work.

The clichés came quickly and stuck fast -- ruthless, abrasive, power-hungry, opportunistic.

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