Example Sentences

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By curling and uncurling their toes, geckos can alternate between sticking and unsticking from a surface, and thus easily move across it.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

As we look toward unsticking calcified systems, we may find hope from a practice rarely celebrated by technological innovators: regulation.

From Slate • Jan. 8, 2015

But unsticking systems is not just a technological challenge.

From Slate • Jan. 8, 2015

Thankfully, there are ways to manage this; unsticking that clog and getting everything flowing freely again.

From Forbes • Sep. 6, 2014

The boys worked together unsticking their bikes from the corner of Grandma’s porch, and at first, the pedals and wheels wouldn’t turn.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles