1.   I picked up the receiver between two sticky fingers and was dismayed when I recognized the voice of Helen Bates.

2.   He did, however, and...

3.   She ran a sticky finger down the monthly balance-sheet, then checked the figures against the handwritten bank statement.

4.   But Bloom was always left behind, ready with a sad smile and a quick quip about politics in the city of broad shoulders and sticky fingers.

5.   Do you think I like being handled by sticky fingers that can totally wreck a good hair day?

6.   Joe was a dishwasher with piercing blue eyes and, Lily would later discover, a cash flow problem and sticky fingers.

7.   Mrs. Lincoln seemed to have sticky fingers.

8.   Now, even otherwise prim and proper democracies like Belgium have politicians with sticky fingers.

9.   She even makes kid-sized armchairs in happy checkered patterns so children, sticky fingers and all, can feel they are welcome in the living room.