What's the difference between snuck and stuck?

Snuck


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We snuck in quietly during the night in civilian cars.
  • (2) Rui Faria and Silvino Louro, two of his coaches and closest allies, snuck in to the back of the auditorium to cast their eye over proceedings.
  • (3) Johnny Depp's dogs on death row after being 'snuck' into Australia Read more But it seems Pistol and Boo may not have had the proper paperwork when they were departing their home state of California, which could pose difficulties when they try to go back.
  • (4) After a meeting lasting more than two hours inside the building, the officials–from the European Commission, European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund, known as the troika–snuck out of the ministry via an external fire escape, thereby avoiding the front entrance.
  • (5) (Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four snuck in second, with Joyce's Ulysses third.)
  • (6) Osvaldo Alonso made it two nil as he snuck one off the inside of the far post in the 47th minute and even though Reinaldo Navia pulled on back in the 52nd minute for Atlanta, the Sounders would not be denied their win and Alex Caskey got the two goal lead back two minutes later, followed by two more from Sammy Ochoa.
  • (7) Down 21-17 with 16 seconds left in the game, Lombardi told Starr to "run it and let's get the hell out of here," after which the quarterback snuck into the endzone and rewarded Packers fans for suffering the cold.
  • (8) Last year, student Ibrahim Abd, who did not want to give his real name, snuck into Syria to help media activists there, without telling his family.
  • (9) Oliver was filming Daily Show reports at the 2008 Republican national convention in Minnesota – the event at which Sarah Palin made her national debut – and had snuck in, with his camera crew, to a VIP area in which he didn't have permission to be.
  • (10) FFA grant Wellington Phoenix 10-year A-League licence extension Read more Played through by midfielder Stefan Mauk, Kamau steadied and snuck a shot past Danny Vukovic at the keeper’s near post, with a healthy deflection off Scott Galloway’s leg.
  • (11) Before Dylan and Jagger cut the ribbon to open our bourgeois-friendly field, Mike Heron, Robin Williamson and Clive Palmer of the Incredible String Band had already snuck in and were happily ensconced in a far corner that few have visited since.
  • (12) Wenger was still remonstrating with a touchline official about some perceived wrong from several minutes earlier when United hit them with a third knockout blow, Nani leaving Lehmann for dead with a left-foot shot that snuck under him and into the far right corner.
  • (13) They could, of course, thrash Arsenal by double figures and see West Brom suffer a similar hammering at home to Stoke, whose impressive season has rather snuck under a lot of people's radars.
  • (14) Snuck in as an anagram or across the first letter of each word in a sentence?
  • (15) The last time the Observer snuck under the nation’s duvet and asked a representative sample of consenting adults those $64,000 questions – How many partners?
  • (16) Just now he snuck into the box undetected and was picked out by a good ball from the right-back.
  • (17) Having missed two good chances with his head, Clint Dempsey switched to using his feet and doubled Fulham's lead with his right, getting the final touch to a shot from Duff that, having picked up a deflection from Pascal Chimbonda, may have snuck past Robinson on its own.
  • (18) It’s still under investigation – we’re still asking those questions.” The broadcaster said he understood the two dogs were deliberately snuck into the country in a minder’s handbag, with the full knowledge of Depp and his wife Amber Heard.
  • (19) On Sunday, Sky News's live coverage of the diamond jubilee pageant snuck into the bottom end of the top 20 most watched free-to-air multichannel shows, averaging 493,000 and a 3.9% share in the half hour from 1pm, and 479,000 and 4.3% in the preceeding half hour.
  • (20) The assault follows firefights in Malaysia's eastern Sabah state that killed eight police officers and 19 Filipino gunmen who in February snuck in by boat and claimed the land as part of a sultanate under a Filipino clan leader.

Stuck


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Stick
  • () imp. & p. p. of Stick.
  • (n.) A thrust.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Would the Greek crisis have been avoided if Europe had stuck to fiscal discipline?
  • (2) "He [Copernicus] stuck to his guns when he came under fire for it, and he was right."
  • (3) Labour is in danger of being left behind, of becoming stuck in an anti-pluralist rut.
  • (4) Jim Ewing tweeted a picture of the station concourse jammed with travellers , adding that he had been stuck in a corridor for more than an hour.
  • (5) It’s a damp squib, a bit of a nothing result,” a leading energy analyst said of a report that is widely expected to endorse provisional findings released in March , and recommend price controls on prepayment meters and setting up a customer database to help rival suppliers target customers stuck on expensive default tariffs.
  • (6) There is also the issue of fair sentencing – if a person has a violent fight in a bar and is sentenced to an IPP with a two year tariff, and then finds himself stuck in the system six years later he has received a punishment three times more severe than the crime he committed in the eyes of the court.
  • (7) Instead, we're likely to be stuck with more muddling-through.
  • (8) Thousands of desperate Syrians remain stuck inside Syria on the Turkish and Iraqi borders amidst mounting insecurity and with winter fast approaching.
  • (9) … I say get stuck in, negotiate hard, fight for Britain.
  • (10) A chemist working at Iran's main uranium enrichment plant was killed on Wednesday when attackers on a motorbike stuck a magnetic bomb to his car.
  • (11) It was a speech that might well have stuck in the gullet of any Greeks or Spaniards who happened to be watching.
  • (12) Many had plastic nodules stuck to their skull, to allow the nurses to attach them to a drip.
  • (13) A few seconds later there was a bang from the side of the Peugeot, as a small bomb stuck on to the window detonated, killing one of the men inside.
  • (14) The midfielder's alarming loss of concentration and concession of possession precipitated Gabriel Agbonlahor's winner, crushing already cautious Wearside optimism and ensuring Gus Poyet's side remain stuck to the bottom of the table.
  • (15) Refugees still stuck on Manus Island need to be allowed to move freely, get jobs and be productive members of PNG society – that is, to get on with their lives.
  • (16) The thermode is stuck to the shaved skin on the back of the rat, allowing heat pulses up to 51 degrees C to be applied.
  • (17) But there, stuck behind a glass case in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and having already failed to take off from the shelves of department stores in the United States, Richard Joseph saw what was to become the cornerstone of a new family venture – a chopping board.
  • (18) In a speech last year, the shadow chancellor, George Osborne, said government should focus on "raising the incomes and the aspirations and the opportunities for the millions of people who are stuck on low incomes".
  • (19) But because all 40 stations are stuck with the fixed costs of separate premises and transmission technology, the savings must be found purely from staff and programming budgets, which must take hits of around 20% to compensate.
  • (20) You made sure that Mairead "stuck to the story", checking with her at every opportunity that she wasn't going to stray, as you put it.

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