STICK WITH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stick with mean? 

• STICK WITH (verb)
  The verb STICK WITH has 1 sense:

1. keep to

  Familiarity information: STICK WITH used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STICK WITH (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Keep to

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

follow; stick to; stick with

Context example:

stick to the diet

Hypernyms (to "stick with" is one way to...):

hang in; hang on; hold on; persevere; persist (be persistent, refuse to stop)

Verb group:

abide by; comply; follow (act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishes)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s VERB-ing

 Context examples 

But our preference is to stick with analogs we know, unless or until we find something unique.

('Oumuamua interstellar object was not an alien spacecraft, National Science Foundation)

Dr Charlie Foster of Bristol University, who chairs the UK chief medical officers’ expert committee for physical activity, said: Find the activity you enjoy the most and stick with it.

(Reduce Risk of Early Death with Any Amount of Running, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

You have Saturn and Pluto to give you the discipline to stick with the program and Jupiter’s influence to encourage you to want to eat nutritiously.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It was all that was left of Spanker—the stick with which he had been tied.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He uttered strange sounds, and seemed very much afraid of the darkness, into which he peered continually, clutching in his hand, which hung midway between knee and foot, a stick with a heavy stone made fast to the end.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The great difficulty that seemed to stick with the two horses, was to see the rest of my body so very different from that of a Yahoo, for which I was obliged to my clothes, whereof they had no conception.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

As he stepped into the circle of yellow light thrown by the lantern she saw that he was a person of gentlemanly bearing, dressed in a grey suit of tweeds, with a cloth cap. He wore gaiters, and carried a heavy stick with a knob to it.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I see, too, the figures at the garden gate: my mother, with her face turned away and her handkerchief waving; my father, with his blue coat and his white shorts, leaning upon his stick with his hand shading his eyes as he peered after us.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He bore over his shoulder a great knotted stick with three jagged nails stuck in the head of it, and from time to time he whirled it up in the air with a quivering arm, as though he could scarce hold back from dashing his companion's brains out.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The stick with which the deed had been done, although it was of some rare and very tough and heavy wood, had broken in the middle under the stress of this insensate cruelty; and one splintered half had rolled in the neighbouring gutter—the other, without doubt, had been carried away by the murderer.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)