Stoop Sentence Examples

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  • The sun was beating down on me as I sat on the stoop waiting for Mrs. Armstrong to pick me up.

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  • Even with Cynthia's tiny height she was required to stoop to avoid the low ceiling.

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  • He was about to stoop over her hand and kiss it, but with a rapid, almost brutal movement of her head, she intercepted his lips and met them with her own.

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  • This pillar is known in Scotland as the " pit bottom stoop."

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  • And so transcendent that he must stoop even to see the heavens !

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  • Label lovers will flip for the Stoop shoe, which features DaDa's logo scrolled across the bottom and a smart, very modern design.

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  • I just signed their death warrants, and you think I'd stoop so low as to point the gun at someone because I'm jealous?

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  • Yes - it 's... Just how low will the drug companies stoop?

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  • In the former, which is also known as " post and stall" or "bord and pillar " in the north of England, " pillar and stall " in South Wales, and " stoop and room " in Scotland, the field is divided into strips by numerous openings driven parallel to the main rise headings, called " bords " or " bord gates," which are again divided by cutting through them at intervals, so as to leave a series of pillars arranged chequer-wise over the entire area.

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  • Here was an orator who could apply all the resources of a burnished rhetoric to the elucidation of figures; who could sweep the widest horizon of the financial future, and yet stoop to bestow the minutest attention on the microcosm of penny stamps and post-horses.

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  • I would never stoop to bow down to a god of stone or an idol of wood or jewels !

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  • I knew this thing about having a baby was still upsetting you, but I never thought you'd stoop to something like this!

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  • His tall, slender figure had a slight stoop yet it looked the reverse of feeble.

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  • His suit was repulsed with disdain; no Strozzi, he was told, might stoop to wed a Savonarola.

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  • For gardeners, a garden caddy is a comfortable four-wheeled seat that eliminates the need to stoop over or kneel.

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  • With both he took all imaginable pains to avoid offending the censorship; for Voltaire had, more than any other man who ever lived, the ability and the willingness to stoop to conquer.

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  • To help combat the thieving lowlifes that would stoop to stealing fuel, Mike Hurley has developed a locking gasoline cap for his TVR.

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  • I would never stoop to bow down to a god of stone or an idol of wood or jewels!

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  • Yes - it's... Just how low will the drug companies stoop?

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  • Because I stoop forward, quite badly at times, nothing ever hangs right.

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  • You could walk with a stoop then, and not look quite so conspicuous.

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  • She and Chips stoop down and go into the cave.

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  • He said nothing of his visit to Martha's room and busied himself on the stoop taping a "Dean for Sheriff" poster to a wooden stake before adding it to a growing pile.

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  • We shall be left as a prey to the wolves that will besides drive our greatest patron [the king of] to stoop to a peace which will be the utter ruin of our edifice, this many years in building."

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  • He regards with the greatest contempt a man that could stoop low enough to perform a mean action.

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  • Some stoop to keeping their little one up as long as possible until she becomes too exhausted to stay awake.

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  • And so transcendent that he must stoop even to see the heavens!

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  • At a dinner table he would, in a fit of absence, stoop down and twitch off a lady's shoe.

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  • Remember to set your finished creations out on the front stoop for everyone to enjoy once you're done.

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  • His very proper unwilli gness to stoop to deny an accusation, that would have been .o disgraceful if it had been true, made ill-natured and silly.

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  • But even before his day the shrewder Neoplatonists had seen that their lofty religious philosophy could not stoop to an alliance with the despotic world-empire, because it could not come in contact with the world at all.

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  • Jake Weller presented it to Dean one sunny afternoon while the two were sharing a diet-breaking ice cream on the stoop of a Seventh Avenue candy store.

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  • Finally, when Austria had been excluded from the new empire, he replied to the parliamentary deputation that came to offer him the imperial crown that he might have accepted it had it been freely offered to him by the German princes, but that he would never stoop "to pick up a crown out of the gutter."

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