How to Use stick out in a Sentence

stick out

verb
  • The idea here is to knock off any bits of paint that stick out.
    Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2022
  • That's a long list of stuff—did any of it stick out to you?
    Andrew Cunningham & Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 17 Dec. 2021
  • White said that’s one of the things about this case that stuck out with her.
    Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 11 Jan. 2024
  • But the first of their kind are the ones that stick out more than anything.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 27 July 2022
  • It’s stuck out in the rural, eastern edge of the state.
    Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2024
  • And his bare feet stuck out through the top of threadbare shoes.
    Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Press down on their paw pads: This will get the nail to stick out.
    Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 14 Sep. 2024
  • The impact for the rest of us could stick out like a big sore thumb.
    John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Sep. 2021
  • Pro-Trump flags and signs hang from the walls of some homes and stick out of yards.
    Jazmine Ulloa, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Their 11 turnovers in the last two quarters stuck out for him.
    Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Her wig is tossed over the edge of the Citadel and lands on a dead branch sticking out of the rock.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 24 May 2024
  • In my short time with him, two things stick out in my mind.
    Annie Lane, oregonlive, 24 June 2021
  • Now the windows are boarded up and pipes stick out of mounds in the yard.
    Washington Post, 28 July 2021
  • Zoë, beyond just the vibes, what stuck out to you about this track?
    Zoë Haylock, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2023
  • If feel for all the people that got stuck out there, I’d be pissed too.
    Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Being in the locker room with the guys, those are the best times that stick out in my mind.
    Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The young woman, dressed in drab and ill-fitting clothes, sticks out.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Ron Amadeo The camera bar just barely sticks out from the back.
    Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 13 May 2024
  • The video will show a pit with boots and hands that stick out of the dirt, as if intending to crawl out.
    Maggie Levantovskaya, Longreads, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Of those, 22 birds had compound fractures, where the ends of the broken bone stick out through the skin.
    Leah Asmelash, CNN, 17 June 2021
  • To take a little heat off from the bright sun, big sun hats and cowboy hats stick out among the crowd.
    The Arizona Republic, 26 Feb. 2022
  • Do any high-profile apps not on that list stick out to you?
    Andy Meek, BGR, 5 Apr. 2022
  • But the rules disappeared and now those in masks stick out, even on her city bus.
    Sarah Cahalan, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2022
  • In the 1989 World Tour movie, Swift grabbed an iron golf club and hit a metal pole sticking out of the stage.
    Bryan West, USA TODAY, 24 July 2024
  • Then, the sight: a corpse, charred black, lying in the middle of street, its bones and feet sticking out of the pile of ash.
    Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2024
  • Studnicka was benched for nearly the first half of the frame, then hacked Max Jones’s stick out of his hands.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Swain added texture to this top knot with curly pieces that stick out from all sides of the updo.
    Gabi Thorne, Allure, 29 June 2022
  • Men still want to look formal, but are afraid of sticking out.
    Byeva Roytburg, Fortune, 17 June 2024
  • There are many pasta shapes, but none stick out to me as much as the jumbo shell.
    Christian Reynoso, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Were there any other policy moments that stuck out to you both that felt momentous, that perhaps one of them could have weighed in on more or it was strangely done?
    Leah Feiger, WIRED, 11 Sep. 2024

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