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Stick to it!

There's little chance of keeping slim, unless you stick to a diet.

If you want to sound like a native speaker, it's easier if you choose one dialect and stick with it. Native speakers don't usually mix dialects in everyday speaking.

stick / stuck / stuck, to get stuck

When the school had no books or paper or pencils, she wrote the alphabet on the ground with a stick.

The walking stick serves the purpose of an advertisement that the bearer's hands are employed otherwise than in useful effort, and it therefore has utility as an evidence of leisure.

Kids these days have no imagination whatsoever. Only a nationwide revolution and sweeping economic reform will bring the hoop and stick back into vogue.

What police thought was a distressed cat turned out to be a man practicing the cuica, a drum which produces noise by rubbing a stick attached to the drumhead from the inside.

This neighborhood has more homeless people than you can shake a stick at.

Children, don't play with those sharp sticks. / After the accident he has to use a walking stick.

He used to like riding on giant tortoises which he persuaded to advance by hanging a lettuce from a stick which he held in front of the tortoises’ nose.

Why are you sticking this announcement here? The message board is over there.

Do you prefer automatic or stick cars?

Hold this stick still! We don't wanna do any barrelroll here!

Come on, Joe. Don't be a stick in the mud. Go to the party with us! When you told Nancy how fat she is, you really hit her where it hurts.

traffic jam

On the top shelf of the fridge we should store product like kefir, yogurt and jams, on the middle – cheese and cold cuts and on the lower shelf vegetable.

Please hide the blueberry jam where Takako can't see it.

Please tell me the secret to making good jam.

Would you help me fix the jam of paper in the printer?

I substitute honey for jam.

So all you need is good cheese and a jar of black cherry jam.

In 2011, Toyota recalled two million vehicles which, they alleged, had gas pedals that could jam and cause the car to accelerate uncontrollably.

He jammed the door open with a piece of wood.

We jammed on guitars all evening

Yesterday, our band jamed with Pefect.

The centre of town was jammed with cars moving at a very slow pace. The motorway was jammed solid (= the traffic could not move) all morning.

The door jammed behind me and I couldn't get out

if you want to slam or jam or dunk it.

Today I cooked little jam tarts with my cousin.

During the Great Game, Afghanistan was a buffer state.

'Nice buffers' said a hard drive to a G.P.U.

serve as/act as/be a buffer Savings can be a buffer during times of financial hardship.

The air bag acts as a buffer between the driver and the steering wheel.

And it’s a very, uhh, historically important site as well because it basically served as a kind of a frontier city, or almost at certain times a buffer zone between the Roman Empire to the west and the various incarnations of the Persian Empire to th

We should not use foreign workers as a buffer against Japan's economic slowdown.