Sentence examples for sticks through from inspiring English sources

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"Recently a young friend asked what the tie pin was for," said the fashion designer Tom Ford, who is 51 and for more than 30 years has worn a pin that sticks through his collar and under a tie.

In place of rifles and bayonets, Private Porter and his fellow soldiers marched with sticks through land now anchored by ball fields and shuttered factories in this largely Hispanic enclave bordering the inner harbor.

Another woman carries sticks through a cemetery, making her way through a flurry of dragonflies so vast it might be a gathering of all the souls ever buried there.

Starting with this almost universally accepted work of humanitarian aid agencies, there is then a whole range of forms of intervention – from economic carrots and sticks, through diplomatic pressure, all the way to often controversial forms of overt or covert assistance to independent media and opposition groups, training in forms of non-violent action, and so on.

Brian Lavery (NYT) ASIA INDONESIA: MOB KILLINGS ON BORNEO A raging mob of young men decapitated two people and paraded their heads on sticks through the streets on Borneo as ethnic violence continued unabated in West Kalimantan, raising the death toll to seven in three days.

Although the designer's work often seems forced into an artistic mold, the collection had a sense of freedom, while accessories that ranged from a belt of coral sticks through a group of gauzy hats added up to an easy, urban elegance.

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I know that the four of us belong to those that stick through everything.

That's not the sort of thing you stick through the local garage on a Sunday.

If it is painful, awkward and frustrating, stick through another seven days with it.

Be prepared to stick through some steeper declines in your portfolio when the market goes through it's inevitable downturns.

You will need to choose something that you care about enough to stick through difficulty.

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