Harriet's blood made an almost black sticky patch on the cellar floor.

He groaned when my fingers found the sticky patch on his left shoulder.

He knew that a sticky patch lay ahead and decided to give up.

During the test, small, flat, sticky patches called electrodes are placed on your chest.

There was a sticky patch on his shirt.

Every time we run into a sticky patch, you throw a downer!

Apart from anything else our economy's going through a bit of a sticky patch at the moment.

He still had sticky patches on his arms from where the tape had held them.

One of his top aides in peacekeeping operations said, "We've hit a sticky patch all right."

She stooped and plucked it from the ground, looking at the sticky patch of brown oil smeared around its point.