How To Use Stickler In A Sentence
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A stickler for detail, Goring actually reads the fine print on all her bills and credit cards statements to make sure she isn't being overcharged.
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In spite of her informality of manner, she was a stickler for correct attire.
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His main job is penciling — creating the initial drawings, based on stories from writers, which are then finished by inkers — and he is known as a stickler for detail.
Archie: American Idol
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The unpredictability of island life has made him a stickler for schedules.
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He is always the first in to work and is a stickler for detail.
The Sun
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The sport of golf is a stickler for abiding by the rules.
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Please don't comment on a thread that is only vaguely related to the subject you want to talk about, however; I'm usually a stickler for keeping threads on-topic and you run the risk of your comment being deleted.
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I hate to be a stickler, but I feel it is my duty to stickle, and I really just wanted to use the word "stickle"'cuz I just made it up, but anyway:
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I'm actually a stickler for the rules of the road and I always try really hard to drive at the speed limit in urban areas (although I get really annoyed with drivers who drive under the speed limit).
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Cardenas, who bends over to pick up a piece of popcorn off the suite's carpeted floor, is also known as a stickler for cleanliness and a borderline perfectionist.
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Mr. Ulrich, known as a stickler for detail, relied on its heritage of upscale merchandising and uncluttered aisles to make Target stand out.
Target Promotes Steinhafel to CEO Post
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He was a real stickler for detail and for the right details.
The Sun
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He's a stickler for detail/accuracy/efficiency.
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A quiet man with a neat military moustache, he loved poetry, was a stickler for detail and had a sly sense of humour.
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There is no accepted coaching category called stickler or nitpicker.
NYT > Home Page
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I caught that too. jukebox is a real stickler and pedant when it suits him; but truly elastic when it comes to his own dishonest misstatements.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Our Own Randy Barnett Talks to Prof. Glenn Reynolds (InstaPundit) About Whether ObamaCare Is Constitutional
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As a stickler for law and order, I say: nonsense!
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Rough and tough, Neale asked a lot and was a stickler for perfection.
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a stickler for promptness
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She interacts with them constantly and encouragingly but is a stickler for accuracy and not looking down.
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A stickler for perfection, she would inspect the cellars at night to make sure everything was right.
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He was a stickler for defensive discipline and organisation, and it made us almost impenetrable.
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Harvard Law graduate who was known as a stickler for detail while a lawyer in private practice.
Undefined
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He is as gruff as a bulldog's bark, yet underneath the hoary rock 'n' roll bluster, Lemmy, author of songs such as ‘Die You Bastard,’ is curiously old fashioned and a stickler for good manners.
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The doctor was a stickler for quality as well as quantity; the memory of his claret and beccafico days still clung to him, like the scent of the roses to Tom Moore's broken gallipot: he was curious in condiments, and whilst devouring, grumbled at the unseasoned viands of Tahiti.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847
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Something of the same brassy colloquialism has evidently now burrowed its way onto our wall labels and into our catalogue entries, and would have refused to budge if a few of us had not learned to love our inner stickler, and accepted that there are certain limits to what one can definitely say about the original state of very old things.
Well, they would, wouldn’t they?
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Fournier is, perhaps because of his animus toward the Vice-President, no stickler for accuracy.
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When other mothers were carting their children around in what I saw as a desperate attempt to pretend nothing had changed in their lives, I was/am a stickler for the nap schedule.
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A stickler for etiquette and social niceties, this is the sign more than any other that is likely to have nightmares over the phrasing of invitations!
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A quiet man with a neat military moustache, he loved poetry, was a stickler for detail and had a sly sense of humour.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hate to be a stickler, you two, but the sabbath is actually Saturday, not Sunday.
Think Progress » Rep. Steve King and Glenn Beck agree: Voting for health reform on Sunday is ‘an affront to God.’
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A stickler for classicism, he follows the traditional style in composing ghazals.
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Bart asked her, if she was such a stickler, did she put bitters in her Manhattans.
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Fluent in five languages, highly informed and a stickler for precise dates and details, she is equally at ease mothering me with biscuits, stuffing plant cuttings into my hands or scolding me for my dismal grasp of the Czech language.
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Now the only stickler is that it just so happens she’s out of town on business this week and doesn’t know she’s switching.
My wife is switching to Apple OS X, she just doesn’t know it yet! — Meandering Passage
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I shook it, but could tell from the way her eyes twinkled that she was anything but a stickler for formality.
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Negligent he may have been in his personal appearance and his domestic arrangements but he was also pragmatic, punctilious and a stickler for detail.
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I sighed, said Mr Sinclair the butler was a stickler for inventories.
THE TARTAN RINGERS
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He has become something of a stickler for the finer observances of royal protocol.
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One earnest little girl, clearly a stickler for cleanliness, covered her playground with a variety of dustbins, all carefully labelled ‘Use me’.
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A quiet man with a neat military moustache, he loved poetry, was a stickler for detail and had a sly sense of humour.
Times, Sunday Times
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Diane Groomes was known as a stickler for the rules City Desk
DeMorning DeBonis: Nov. 24, 2010
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Beneath his thick, bushy brows was a stickler's eye for detail.
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She was a stickler for formality and any transgression against the rules and regulations angered her.
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This is admittedly a nonpersonal sense of 'infer', but the usage still infuriates language sticklers.
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Ever a stickler for protocol, he and his wife took umbrage at the democratic etiquette of President Thomas Jefferson's administration.
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The main stickler is that by the end of the book, the reader is left without a sense of closure.
REVIEW: Absolution Gap by Alastair Reynolds
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Would Egypt's most successful general, a stickler for tradition, have wished to be associated with a woman co-regent, even a woman as strong as Hatshepsut?
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After all, you were always such a stickler for accuracy.
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She wondered if she should sign it to authenticate it, but Irving, never much of a stickler for authenticity, replied, apparently, ‘that she knew who drew it, and so did I, and that was good enough’.
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He was also, however, a stickler for truth and accuracy, and this might have led to his death.
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The Czech legend is a stickler for detail.
The Sun
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But that suggests something odd: for he is a stickler for the indissolubility of form and content, from the beginning to the end.
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Mary is no stickler for grooming, and Daniels requested that Mo'Nique skip shaving her underarms and eat chips by the bagful to encourage facial blemishes.
Women of 'Precious' undertake transformational roles
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We don't know what Fred the boy was like - going by his later life the young Fred may have been a stickler for detail, very precise about his work, and perhaps not one of the ‘in’ crowd.
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He was a stickler for details and loyalty and he was innovative.
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The book also tells one a lot about Herge, who was a stickler for accuracy and detail and how he ensured that each of the stories was firmly anchored in fact.
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I am a stickler for details, and I always seem to need to know the reason behind things, the motivation that inspired certain actions, the purpose behind plans and course of actions, the meaning of it all.
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He was a stickler for defensive discipline and organisation, and it made us almost impenetrable.
Times, Sunday Times
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In spite of her informality of manner, she was a stickler for correct attire.
Times, Sunday Times
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Well, Tommy was a terrible stickler, you know; he'd biff you as soon as look at you.
DESPERADOES
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The New Yorker wrote that the book presented itself as “a call to arms, in a world spinning rapidly into subliteracy, by a hip yet unapologetic curmudgeon, a stickler for the rules of writing” but the reviewer expressed the opinion that “it’s hard to fend off the suspicion that the whole thing might be a hoax”.
Eats, Shoots, and Leaves by Lynn Truss vs. Ate, Shot and Left by David Crystal (English)
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He was a stickler for the correct usage of English.
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He's a stickler for detail/accuracy/efficiency.
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He is a stickler for detail.
Times, Sunday Times
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But Waugh is a stickler for the protocol of language, manners and tradition.
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Not to mention that she's such a stickler that if she says a canned truffle is okay here-well, I'll just generally believe her.
Toast and the Truffled Eggs
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Well, Tommy was a terrible stickler, you know; he'd biff you as soon as look at you.
DESPERADOES
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He has become something of a stickler for the finer observances of royal protocol.
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He's a stickler for detail/accuracy/efficiency.
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Beneath his thick, bushy brows was a stickler's eye for detail.
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Has playing the fastidious butler made him a stickler for service in restaurants?
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He was a stickler for discipline and the minutiae of dress.
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Sticklers for detail, father-son owners Pratt and Chris Morales sprinkle herbs and spices on the golden-brown loaf, and even substitute darker whole wheat flour for the "dark meat" wings and legs.
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‘Oh, I was a stickler for the rules,’ she pshawed, ‘I work in a bar now.’
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He was a stickler for standards, insisting that he did not want railway enthusiasts but enthusiastic railwaymen.
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I am a stickler for objectivity in journalism, but I had started out with the impression that I would be dealing with a world of half-truths, stretched laws and dodgy dealings.
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A quiet man with a neat military moustache, he loved poetry, was a stickler for detail and had a sly sense of humour.
Times, Sunday Times
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He proved an enthusiastic chorister and server in the parish churches, and was a stickler for the traditions of the Church of England.
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As a stickler for detail, it is possible to imagine him marching out there with measuring tape.
Times, Sunday Times
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If you are a stickler for quiet brakes, you can also cut out shim washers for spacing the brake caliper brake mounts on the frame or fork.
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He told a story involving a commanding officer who was a stickler for precision, and whose great aim was to see the trombone players of the band with their elbows at the same angle.
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I was a stickler for tradition, just like my dad.
