stuck around

past tense of stick around

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of stuck around The crowd stuck around for a long time after the collapse, one neighbor said, as people waited for updates on the status of their friends. Matthew Cupelli, Cincinnati Enquirer, 18 Oct. 2025 Unlike his more famous literary compatriots, Milan Kundera and Josef Skvorecky, Klima stuck around in Czechoslovakia, despite being forbidden from publishing for 20 years. Jonny Diamond, Literary Hub, 10 Oct. 2025 The fans who stuck around to the end were booing the team in the final minutes. Matthew Fairburn, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025 Still, her self-image as a not-quite actress—a conscientious objector in the age of the influencer—had stuck around. Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2025 Rinderknecht allegedly stuck around and took several more videos of the fires and the firefighters from a nearby hill. Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2025 Overstreet joined the show in season 2 and stuck around through the final season. Jessica Wang, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Sep. 2025 The museum stuck around for four years after Klairmont’s death. Nina Metz, Boston Herald, 17 Sep. 2025 Viewers who stuck around to the end also got their very own love letter written by Han herself as a thank you for watching. Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stuck around
Verb
  • Yet, they were also entirely removed from most of the brutalities, as the Netherlands remained neutral throughout the war.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The two met while filming The Parent Trap and have remained close ever since.
    Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Protests have mostly stayed peaceful with occasional arrests among pro-Trump and anti-Trump individuals on site.
    Anna Giaritelli, The Washington Examiner, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has temporarily stayed an earlier order blocking the federalization of the Oregon National Guard but left in place the ban on deploying federalized troops into Portland.
    Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Afterward, Mazzulla, who was the starting point guard on a Final Four team at West Virginia, hung around to chat with reporters, then watched a follow-up game held between two teams of media members.
    Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The first unit, with Sam Rinzel up top, created some high-end chances but hung around the perimeter a little too much.
    Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • While Damiano waited for David’s blood glucose to tick up or edge down, his engineering brain crunched the problem.
    Carrie Arnold, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The couple waited until Vale’s arrival to choose her moniker.
    Emily Weaver, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025

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“Stuck around.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stuck%20around. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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