How to Use sticky note in a Sentence

sticky note

noun
  • This gives you a sticky note's worth of details from your call.
    — Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Tacked to the walls were posters and precinct maps flecked with yellow sticky notes.
    — Peter Slevin, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2019
  • The years of school lunches are long gone, but her sticky note game is still strong.
    — Southern Living, 7 Apr. 2018
  • Please write this on a sticky note, and place it wherever your eyes land.
    — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Jot your reason for running down on a sticky note or journal.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 19 Apr. 2020
  • Lock me in a room for three days with a team of five strangers and a stack of sticky notes as high as your eye.
    — Paul Ford, Wired, 19 May 2020
  • Marple began putting sticky notes on a classroom map to mark where those who had replied are from.
    — Katy Bergen, kansascity, 9 Jan. 2018
  • Next to his computer is a large black law book with hundreds of sticky notes in it.
    — cincinnati.com, 13 June 2019
  • Or hey, the next tip would make for an excellent sticky note reminder, too.
    — Anna Borges, SELF, 18 June 2024
  • The door to one of the suites has a sticky note on it that says kat’s participant.
    — Rowan Jacobsen, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Sprinkle salt over the string and ice cube in one of the glasses, and mark this glass with a sticky note.
    — Sabine De Brabandere, Scientific American, 25 Jan. 2018
  • A lot of emotion can be expressed within the confines of a sticky note.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 14 May 2021
  • Taylor wrote the mother’s phone number down in pen on an orange sticky note.
    — Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2021
  • The best a pharmacist could do was add her name to a sticky note next to the cash register.
    — Emily Woodruff, NOLA.com, 16 Jan. 2021
  • Or, for those who prefer the old-school sticky note method, there are even online versions of those as well.
    — Peter Boyd, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
  • They were asked to write some comments on the sticky note about what went into their selection.
    — Kimberly Cataudella Tutuska, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Keep it mental, write them down on a sticky note, or even text them to a friend or family member.
    — Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 11 Jan. 2021
  • This cute sticky note set can be used by teachers to leave notes for students and reminders for themselves.
    — Moriah Mason, Southern Living, 9 Nov. 2023
  • My hope is that readers will complete my recipes and add their own sticky notes or share their own versions with their friends.
    — Todd Plummer, Vogue, 28 Sep. 2019
  • Everyone at the table has to stick a word to their forehead using a sticky note.
    — Carly Breit, Country Living, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Kim shared the list of haters on her Instagram — names scribbled out on a bunch of green sticky notes.
    — Noelle Devoe, Seventeen, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Shelves are lined with poetry books, most of them feathered with sticky notes to mark favorite poems.
    — Anndee Hochman, Philly.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • For their part, demonstrators pasted calls for democracy on sticky notes around the area.
    — NBC News, 27 July 2019
  • And tonight, maybe that is what this little yellow sticky note under my cup of coffee is trying to tell me.
    — Seth Kantner, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Apr. 2018
  • In other words, don't keep your Google account backup codes on a sticky note next to your laptop.
    — David Nield, Wired, 12 July 2020
  • By filling out a sticky note with a failure story, the innovator gets a piece of cake.
    — Ellevate, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2021
  • The victim told police Gersonde gave him her phone number on a sticky note.
    — Brittany Seemuth, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Underneath the laptop, for good measure, was a sticky note with a password written on it.
    — Andy Greenberg, Wired, 5 Aug. 2020
  • After handing the teller the sticky note with a demand for money, left the scene with an undisclosed amount of cash.
    — Adam Sabes, Fox News, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The students examined the photo and jotted down questions on sticky notes, which were then placed on the posters.
    — Sarah Larimer, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2017

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