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How to use sticker in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Sticker means something or someone that sticks (pierces, or adheres). Example: “When buying a car, know the sticker and the invoice price.”

Examples of sticker by meaning

nounSomething or someone that sticks (pierces, or adheres).

  • Thousands of stickers pierced into his flesh.1982, Fernando Alegria, Fernando Alegría, Chilean Writers in Exile: Eight Short Novels
  • When the prickly pear stickers pierced their paws they howled with pain, but they kept running.2010, Valerie Estelle Frankel, From Girl to Goddess: The Heroine's Journey through Myth and Legend, McFarland, →ISBN, page 212
  • He toppled backward, landing on a particularly large cholla and crying out as hundreds of stickers pierced his flesh.2013, Cathy McDavid, Cowboy for Keeps, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 118

nounOne who sticks to something, or does not give up; a stayer.

  • He's a sticker.1930, The Strand Magazine, volume 80, page 321

nounThe listed price (also sticker price).

  • When buying a car, know the sticker and the invoice price.

verbTo apply one or more stickers to (something).

  • A tattooed camp staffer DJs from a heavily stickered laptop, next to a whirling party light that scatters rainbow beams throughout the space.2023 August 31, Frankie de la Cretaz, “Postcard from Camp Gaylore”, in Cosmopolitan

verbTo mark as the sticker price.

  • Also out of Africa: a huge hammered copper floor mirror stickered at $449.2009 February 28, Rita Zekas, “DecoRita visits West Elm”, in Toronto Star

More sentences with sticker

  • Their politics are clear from the bumper stickers on their cars.From the entry politics
  • He made his passage through the trees carefully, mindful of the stickers.From the entry passage
  • He has a bumper sticker on his van that reads "faster than a speeding ticket".From the entry bumper sticker
  • A sticker type of glue. The stickest kind of gum.From the entry stick
  • While you cannot drink denatured alcohol, you can still use it to remove sticker glue from most surfaces.From the entry denature
  • I made a cute family of pet rocks by putting eye, nose, and mouth stickers on big stones.From the entry pet rock
  • That is why many of us are now suffering sticker shock when we eat out.2023 June 10, Tim Hayward, “The pie’s the limit”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry sticker shock
  • Got gas the other day and there were two LGB stickers on the gas pump.2021 December 27, Frank, “Do you suppose anyone told the venal, senile what LGB means?”, in alt.home.repair (Usenet). From the entry LGB
  • Dismantle all the pieces, and place any with stickers or printing (like minifigure torsos) aside.2021 June 3, Joshua Lyon, “How to Clean Grimy Old Lego Bricks”, in Wirecutter, archived from the original on 16 Jan 2024. From the entry minifigure
  • Also inside was a car window sticker reading "All Cats Are Beautiful" next to the letters "A.C.A.B."2020 September 2, Spencer Humphrey, “Parent upset over 'A.C.A.B' and 'Defund the Police' material included in school supply kit”, in…. From the entry all cats are beautiful
  • Timers, warning sticker charts, promises and pinkie swears: Nothing trumps the power of an iPad.2019 May 8, Meghan Leahy, “Getting an uncooperative 5-year-old from Point A to Point B”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The…. From the entry pinkie swear
  • We’ve got a bumper sticker that says ‘Ithaca: 10 square miles surrounded by reality’.2018 November 20, Emma John, quoting Kash Iraggi-Wiggins, “The best towns and small cities in the US: Ithaca, New York state”, in…. From the entry Ithacan
  • We would dance every time she went potty and she would put a sticker on the chart.2017 November 10, Lafwa S. Espero, Faith, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 132. From the entry potty dance
  • Pokémon cards, games, stickers, and the most popular, the TV show.2009 November 14, Camden Lamont, 1999, in Creepypasta, archived from the original on 21 Aug 2020. From the entry glued
  • The marketing of military spousedom was impressively wide-ranging: stickers, teddy bears, ball caps, jewelry, key chains.2009, Lily Burana, I Love a Man in Uniform: A Memoir of Love, War, and Other Battles, Hachette Book Group, →ISBN. From the entry spousedom
  • T-shirts, stickers, and baby crawlers are available with the Liquid Medication logo: a martini glass.2005, Dan Crowley, “Liquid Medication”, in The 505 Weirdest Online Stores […], Naperville, Ill.: Sourcebooks Hysteria, →ISBN, page 52. From the entry crawler
  • I saw HRC equality and rainbow stickers all over the place.2004, Rick Hoffman, account of the March for Women's Lives, Memorandum from the Pro-Life Alliance of Gays and Lesbians, Number 46, Summer…. From the entry HRC
  • As children grow up and become teens and ’tweenagers, they carry their love for stickers with them.2002 April 3, Ivette M. Yee, quoting Michael Eisenstein, “Stick ’em up: Teens and ’tweens express themselves with—and spend millions of…. From the entry 'tweenager
  • "He spent the rest of the day pulling dewberry stickers out of his pants."1997 March 6, “Texas Officer Perfects Art of Lassoing Emus”, in The Christian Science Monitor, Boston, page 3. From the entry Tarzan
  • And the obligatory "No Fat Chicks" sticker on the rear window.1997 April 22, Nathan Wong, “Chick Magnet's”, in aus.cars (Usenet). From the entry chromie
  • Voters were registered and other t-shirted volunteers sold bumper stickers and buttons.1988 April 16, Elizabeth Pincus, “Run, Jane, Run”, in Gay Community News, page 12. From the entry T-shirted
  • That's a lot of stickers (literally billions), considering most cost much less than $1 each.1984, Boys' Life, volume 74, number 10, page 46. From the entry stickermania
  • Do you like getting free stickers at cons?2025 May 30, @snepcubsakai.bsky.social, Bluesky (post). From the entry friend of Bluey
  • So perhaps it should come as no surprise that people are losing it over this AirPods sticker prank.2019 November 19, Ashley Hoffman, “Trolling Expert Unleashes the Most Chaotic Evil Prank: Fake Airpod^([sic]) Stickers”, in Time, New…. From the entry chaotic evil
  • There are Schimmel Sister stickers, and Navajo Nation stickers, Cherokee Nation stickers, Idle No More, and AIM flags duct-taped to antennas.2018, Tommy Orange, “Interlude”, in There There, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 136. From the entry duct tape
  • Republicans' entire approach to distracting low-information working-class whites with "dog whistle, sound bites, and bumper sticker slogans" will have to change.2018, Val Atkinson, Distractions, Distortions, Deceptions, and Outright Lies: Diversiont that Keep the SOuth Red, Poor People Poor, and…. From the entry low-information
  • Many longtime residents strongly oppose the extremism of the newcomers, sporting bumper stickers that say, “Don't Californicate Colorado.”2012 [2001], Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 65. From the entry bumper sticker
  • I don't know if you've ever gotten close to a jagger bush, but those stickers can be pretty mean.2011, Larry Enright, A King in a Court of Fools. From the entry jagger
  • There were snowshoes, a turn-of-the-century broad axe, and a Palin-esque bumper sticker that said it all: “I'm Pro-Choice.2011, Leslie Anthony, White Planet: A Mad Dash Through Modern Global Ski Culture, Greystone Books, →ISBN, page 66. From the entry Palin-esque
  • Success sticker charts, or potty charts, work really well for toilet training and really help kids to feel special!2010, Shelly Vaziri Flais, Raising Twins: From Pregnancy to Preschool, American Academy of Pediatrics, →ISBN, page 136. From the entry potty chart
  • His website tracks meetings of FSM clubs (members dress up as pirates) and sells trinkets and bumper stickers.2007 November 16, Justin Pope, “Pasta theology: Scholars mull Spaghetti Monster”, in USA Today, archived from the original on 25 Jul 2015. From the entry FSM
  • An external expectation to "earn" stickers or "potty stars" can create the same power struggles as token rewards and praise.2007, Karen Deerwester, The Potty Training Answer Book: Practical Answers to the Top 200 Questions Parents Ask, Sourcebooks, →ISBN, page 165. From the entry potty chart
  • Stickers are popular with kids of all ages, but there is a growing popularity among teens and ’tweenagers.2002 April 3, Ivette M. Yee, quoting Michael Eisenstein, “Stick ’em up: Teens and ’tweens express themselves with—and spend millions of…. From the entry 'tweenager

Meaning of sticker

  1. noun Something or someone that sticks (pierces, or adheres).
  2. noun One who sticks to something, or does not give up; a stayer.
  3. noun An adhesive label or decal.

Full definition of sticker

Questions about sticker in a sentence

How do you use sticker in a sentence?
Sticker is used as a noun and verb. For example: “When buying a car, know the sticker and the invoice price.”
What is a short sentence with sticker?
“He's a sticker.”
What does sticker mean?
Sticker means something or someone that sticks (pierces, or adheres).

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