Having the sticky properties of an adhesive.
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Examples for "sticky "
1 The wagon-covers became sticky in the sun, and rigid in the cold.
2 Likewise, consider a short rappel or tension traverse to circumnavigate sticky problems.
3 That includes the sticky topic of mutual assessments of national financial systems.
4 They asked some really sticky questions about computers and discipline for learning.
5 And you know how to get out of a sticky situation too.
1 His face turned pasty gray in the deep gloom of the cabin.
2 Bassenge turned white; his prominent eyes bulged in his rather pasty face.
3 The gristle in the pasty , of course, is that academics run academia.
4 But here comes the pasty , and I shall relish it wondrous well.
5 Remember when your pasty dad wore that pale green cardigan one Easter?
1 Barry was grinning, the box of gummy bears in his hand forgotten.
2 But as soon as he chews the gummy candy he wants another.
3 I blinked gummy lids and was immediately blinded by the overhead light.
4 The shriveled pages of the book had stuck into a gummy block.
5 Mr. Wendover's gummy lips curved in a grim smile at the recollection.
1 Out on the open water, trailers of mist skimmed the viscous surface.
2 The two appendices whip the viscous secretion of the glands into foam.
3 The material employed in all buildings is originally liquid, or rather viscous .
4 It was like a sea of swirling, spiraling tar, thick and viscous .
5 Silas could almost feel the friction, hear the viscous grumble of digestion.
1 The blood flowed freely and collected on his fingers in glutinous masses.
2 Slowly the glutinous adhesion gave way, and slowly the writing revealed itself.
3 The glutinous or oily exudation that covers them is a brilliant varnish.
4 Puddings, cereals, and other glutinous mixtures are often cooked in this way.
5 The psychic plane was thick with the glutinous effluvia of incomprehensible minds.
1 Mirabilis longiflora.-Thestems and both surfaces of the leaves bear viscid hairs.
2 This liquid is rather thick and viscid , but it is boiling furiously.
3 It was the constituency, like viscid grease, which always put Joshua off.
4 The viscid beads of white fire evaporated as they reached Jenny's hips.
5 I saw them falling on the viscid surface of the water.
1 Practically none of them had been removed from the insoluble mucilaginous covering.
2 These are mucilaginous when unbroken, and afford the taste of bitter almonds.
3 Soft feed and mucilaginous and nourishing drinks should be given during these attacks.
4 The expressed juice was not limpid, but thick, mucilaginous and ropy.
5 The succulent covering of the fruit is soft and slimy, mawkishly sweet, and mucilaginous .
1 The ones with that gluey consistency, like the inside of a Pop-Tart.
2 Everywhere in the air and above her body-thosebright, glittering, gluey threads!
3 The sandy ocean floor was warm and gluey under my feet.
4 Supplies arrived regularly, which enabled Grandsk to produce gluey soups, full of margarine.
5 Above the gluey snow it was easier to bank my skis.
6 He could feel it warm and gluey against his cold skin.
7 More like gluey , gooey, and a heart attack on a plate!
8 The dressing came away in one, with a gluey rasping sound.
9 The gluey cobweb of adhesions from her appendectomy had enclosed the Fallopian tube.
10 Ponderously booted feet did a dance of ecstasy in three feet of gluey mud.
11 Add a little water if it has become too gluey .
12 Foaly was busy grooming himself, peeling long strings of gluey nano-wafers from his flank.
13 The gummy and gluey materials have been transformed into sugar.
14 And the potatoes accompanying it seemed hand mashed, not all gluey and machine mashed.
15 The pies I remember from my childhood had a slightly gluey texture on the inside.
16 We struggled with Venza across the gluey river surface.
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