| At about nine o'clock, the first vehicle topped a ridge, hit a patch of soft sand and stuck fast. |
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| Like a sailing barque stuck fast in the Doldrums, I lurch slowly in the swell, holding my breath and waiting for a wind to fill the sails. |
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| While she was there, aged 16, she watched whaling boats set out on the North Sea, and heard reports of one becoming stuck fast in the ice. |
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| The 264 ft ship with her 42 ft beam just missed the lighthouse, but the wind and waves drove her high on the rocks, where she stuck fast. |
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| The town crier, in trying to ring out the Prince's arrival, found the clapper of his bell stuck fast. |
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| The ship struck the Tricolor at 7.30 yesterday evening and became stuck fast. |
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| No, I found St. Hedwig in a book of medieval saints years ago, and the name stuck fast in my memory. |
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| It ran the risk of becoming stuck fast in its refusal to change, or in a dreamworld divorced from the reality all around it. |
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| He'd got stuck fast halfway through, his belt loop was jammed on the window latch, and there was no way of moving up, down, in or out to free himself. |
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| He tried to move left, right, back, but his shirt was stuck fast to the roots and moving forwards to unstick himself was impossible against the force of the water. |
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| For what seemed like ten minutes I turned my finger this way and that, pushed, pulled, twisted and shook, but I was stuck fast, and if anything it was getting worse. |
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| After a nightmarish afternoon when I became stuck fast while walking through mud, and tumbled forward into the thick of it, I now discover that wellies are dangerous. |
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| Right in front of me, just below the ledge, is a second chockstone the size of a large bus tire, stuck fast in the three-foot channel between the walls. |
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| The sword stuck fast in a crack in between two of the stone blocks. |
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| The dying was always hard in Europe, and the templates of suffering stuck fast. |
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| Something about the experience stuck fast, and he went to learn acting at the London Drama Centre. |
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| The days rapidly grew shorter and the boat became stuck fast in the ice, which soon reached a thickness of 1 metre. |
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| The bocage terrain of western Normandy favoured the resolute defender, and there was growing concern at an invasion which seemed to have stuck fast. |
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| As the rest of Africa decolonised and modernised, albeit fitfully, after the second world war, Ethiopia remained stuck fast in a feudal fantasy presided over by a diminutive emperor, Haile Selassie. |
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| Therefore, the Regulation is stuck fast, and the Council is not shifting. |
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| My ice axe whacked into the slope and stuck fast. |
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| Gandhi stuck fast to his nonviolent principles. |
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| The team stuck fast in the black muck, and every effort to extricate them served only to imbed them more hopelessly in the sticky gumbo. |
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| It was always humid, and the dirt stuck fast to the ground. |
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| We ought to express our appreciation to all our colleagues in the parliaments and governments of the candidate countries for having stuck fast to democratic principles even in difficult situations. |
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| It happened almost every day that coaches stuck fast, until a team of cattle could be procured from some neighbouring farm to tug them out of the slough. |
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