The ionic surface of bentonite has a useful property in making a sticky coating on sand grains.

The resins in these products can form a sticky coating on the hair, which makes it look dull, lank and lifeless.

He'd have to get used to the feeling of a sticky, plasticlike coating all over his body.

Then he continued on across the floor, the sticky black coating picking up traces of the virus.

The place had a faintly chemical scent, reminiscent of the sticky coating on fresh Polaroid prints.

Any thread anchored here must have been disturbed, for she smelled the acrid odor of the sticky coating.

A sticky coating of greenish poison showed on the cutting edge.

He opened the sampler and drew it across the guhimed surface until the glitter of the glass had been obscured by a sticky coating.

The winter buds are green, with a sticky resinous coating.

They are thin-walled and covered with a thin, hyaline (transparent), sticky coating.