"sticky" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Athletics problems are sticky wickets that must be confronted with a sustained effort.
- Which means he's batting on a very sticky wicket.
- Heavy rain fell overnight, and next day the pitch soon developed into a traditional sticky wicket.
- The full phrase is thought to have originally been "to bat on a sticky wicket."
- Morris won the toss and elected to bat on a sticky wicket.
- The following day, the pitch dried out under the hot sun and turned into a sticky wicket.
- Actually, this one turns out to be a sticky wicket (as they say, um, somewhere, I think).
- Play resumed only 10 minutes late the next day, but "England were twice caught on sticky wickets.
- On such sticky wickets his return of 14 for 43 beat Hampshire in a day's cricket.
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