Stooped Sentence Examples

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  • He stooped and selected several rocks.

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  • She stooped to gather the wounded hen.

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  • He stooped and picked up a bird's nest that had fallen upon the ground.

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  • The small book it hefted made its stooped posture almost double over.

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  • Mr. O'Hara stooped and removed the brass ashtray from the trashcan.

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  • Putnam stooped down and looked in.

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  • One of the footmen who had stooped to pick up some broken glass remained in that position without taking his eyes from the window and from Dolokhov's back.

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  • He stooped and retrieved the page, carefully placing it on top of the stack before he met her gaze.

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  • He stooped to rinse his hands in the pond and smiled up at her.

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  • He even stooped to playing a Loretta Lynn CD, although if Fred had caught him he would have sworn it was in the wrong container.

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  • They grudged even the contributions necessary for the maintenance of the frontier fortresses, and many of them stooped to accept the bribes he offered them on condition that they should remain quiet.

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  • He felt the ingratitude, of the king, whom he had made, so bitterly that he stooped crc long to intrigue ajebeiion.

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  • On Barere's proposal the Convention stooped to dissolving the Committee of Twelve.

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  • Then, laying aside his arms, he stooped and drank.

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  • Gradually the pain caused Dennis to adopt a stooped posture which has never improved in spite of exercises.

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  • It was thus the first manifest sign, of Turkey's decadence from the glory of Suleiman I.'s reign, when King Ferdinand stooped to call the sultan's vizier his brother.

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  • She drew her wool down through the canvas and, scarcely able to refrain from laughing, stooped as if trying to make out the pattern.

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  • Rostov closed his eyes and stooped down.

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  • My treasure! and Prokofy, trembling with excitement, rushed toward the drawing-room door, probably in order to announce him, but, changing his mind, came back and stooped to kiss the young man's shoulder.

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  • But he scowled at her angrily though also with suffering in his eyes, and stooped glass in hand over the infant.

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  • She held out her hand to him, and with a mixed feeling of estrangement and tenderness pressed her lips to his forehead as he stooped to kiss her hand.

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  • Simon sighed and stooped to straighten the leash a young borzoi had entangled; the count too sighed and, noticing the snuffbox in his hand, opened it and took a pinch.

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  • And not the face she had known ever since she could remember and had always seen at a distance, but the timid, feeble face she had seen for the first time quite closely, with all its wrinkles and details, when she stooped near to his mouth to catch what he said.

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  • She stooped and picked it up, reading aloud.

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  • Montrose kept his word, while Hamilton stooped to sign the Covenant.

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  • His cross was almost deflected in by Wayne Brown before Weller stooped to nod home.

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  • General Grant, then nearly forty-three years of age, was five feet eight inches in height, with shoulders slightly stooped.

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  • Fifty imperials... that I will drink a whole bottle of rum without taking it from my mouth, sitting outside the window on this spot" (he stooped and pointed to the sloping ledge outside the window) "and without holding on to anything.

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  • Pierre with the baby on his hand stooped, kissed them, and replied to their inquiries.

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  • Pretty old, he guessed, by her small, stooped figure.

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  • The rush of the Sea behind me seemed to grow louder as I stooped down to pick up my beloved child.

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  • From the beginning, it seemed that this stooped, wizened old man did n't consider himself to be important at all.

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  • She swore and stooped to pick them up.

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  • Exhausted, Jenn stooped to grab her clothes and returned to the locker room.

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  • Anna Mikhaylovna instantly guessed her intention and stooped to be ready to embrace the countess at the appropriate moment.

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  • Helene stooped forward to make room, and looked round with a smile.

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  • Fred stooped to see what goodies remained in the refrigerator and removed a plate of cold meatloaf.

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  • As they reached the clearing, Justin stooped and retrieved the twine, winding it into a ball as they continued back toward the house.

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