Stump Sentence Examples

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  • Aloe, stump of a tree, as forming the original plough.

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  • It was a good one alright - a good one to stump her.

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  • He maneuvered the team around a big stump.

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  • But the real issue for small firms is whether the EU is prepared to stump up cash for having caused such chaos.

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  • Setting fire to a tree stump one lunchtime by testing a magnifying glass.

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  • Of the two later styles, however, by far the most splendid example is the famous church of St Botolph, Boston (q.v.), with its magnificent lantern-crowned tower or "stump."

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  • This is a truly astronomical amount of money the taxpayer is being asked to stump up.

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  • He beats the batsman 's slash outside off stump, before jamming one into the batsman's left wrist.

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  • In the castle grounds stands the stump of the renowned oak tree where Lord William Howard used to hang Scottish Reivers and wrong doers.

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  • If the stump comes out in one piece use it as a visual guide to the shaping of the new haft.

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  • Judging from his expression, I had flattened his middle stump.

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  • The rectal stump is then washed out with povidone iodine solution to kill any intraluminal tumor cells.

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  • In some cases the stump neuroma is causing the phantom pain in the leg also - a type of referred pain.

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  • The removal of a rotting tree stump may also allow for excavation within the ' shrine ' building.

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  • Often the nest is built over a decaying tree stump which, along with other decaying organic matter, provides heat.

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  • Hold the screw head in a vise, and knock the spade with a mallet or club hammer to remove the stump.

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  • The helicopter then crashed, ending up with the broken stump of pole lying across the tail boom.

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  • The stump was let into the ground about three feet, and well pummel round to prevent the bull from drawing it.

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  • Boston Stump seems to dominate the skyline for miles around, in all directions.

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  • But when Warne strays onto leg stump, Flintoff can resist no longer and slog sweeps him over mid wicket for six !

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  • Tree stump removal on Palewell Park delayed due to access problems.

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  • Too well, in fact, cos I keep having to somehow stump up the cash to get more done !

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  • On one corner of this was stuck the stump of a red wax candle.

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  • Many of the questions may stump players, but it's all in fun!

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  • Try to stump your friends with some of the ones from these sites.

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  • Maybe you do, but in case you don't, here are some fun facts and trivia that you can use to stump those in your life who do think they know everything about this high-profile actor.

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  • The complete absence of a limb leaving a stump is called transverse deficiency, or amelia.

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  • Asking an easy question like "What was the name of your spouse's elementary school?" may stump a spouse.

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  • As legend tells it, a fir tree immediately sprang up from the stump of the oak tree, and St. Boniface and his followers saw this as a sign from God.

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  • If you are looking for some Bible quiz questions to stump your family, friends or even your religion class students, know that you do have many options including this printable version.

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  • In 2 cases PPC was the consequence of a pancreatic fistula evolved in acute pancreatitis of the stump.

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  • After seventeen months the Georgic emerged on 12th December 1944 with one funnel and a stump foremast.

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  • By summer I have cleared a small glade of land, torn out every stubborn stump, dug up every clinging root.

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  • The stump has been ground down to around 6 " below lawn level with a stump grinder.

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  • His unusual style could be described as a cross between Bo Diddley and cult â80s indie band Stump.

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  • Bowling slightly fuller than usual on or around off stump is the best tactic.

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  • A simple tree stump or large log turned on its end will normally suffice.

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  • When he takes a single, Strauss is almost Yorked, the ball just going past the outside edge and off stump.

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  • In 1900 the woodland area, including stump lands, was estimated at 38,000 sq.

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  • Various woodland creatures rest or scurry round on the ground holding the tree stump.

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  • No luck so far - Jones strays onto leg stump and is clipped to fine leg for four.

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  • When he takes a single, Strauss is almost yorked, the ball just going past the outside edge and off stump.

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  • This over time will shrivel up and drop off leaving a healthy stump otherwise known as the naval.

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  • The cord needs to be kept clean and dry, and when at home parents also need to maintain the cleansing routine until the stump is dry and entirely healed.

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  • Navel piercing and belly button piercing are essentially the same thing, although some contend that a "true" navel piercing is actually done in the remaining stump portion of the navel itself, casually referred to as the "outie".

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  • Generally, a navel piercing is placed somewhere along the outer rim of the navel, and a belly button ring or some other piece of body jewelry is threaded through the opening to hang over the navel stump.

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  • You could become a consultant, a wedding planner, caterer, gardener, painter, woodworker, personal chef, landscape designer, stump grinder, home health aide or daycare operator.

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  • Fallout Boy lead singer Patrick Stump is featured prominently in Gym Class Heroes' hit single "Cupid's Chokehold", singing the Supertramp hook, and band members have appeared in Gym Class Heroes videos.

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  • Fall Out Boy singer Patrick Stump has also appeared in many of the band's hit singles such as Cupid's Chokehold.

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  • There are lots of sites around the web where you can download the Star Trek sounds you know and love, or stump your friends with a few they might not recognize without a little prompting.

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  • It got hung up on a stump and she had to yank from another direction to dislodge it.

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  • The loss of an eye will be followed by atrophy of the optic nerve; the tissues in a stump of an amputated limb show atrophic changes; a paralysed limb from long disuse shows much wasting; and one finds at great depths of the sea fishes and marine animals, which have almost completely lost the organs of sight, having been cut off for long ages from the stimuli (light) essential for these organs, and so brought into an atrophic condition from disuse.

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  • Such a feather was brought to the Great Khan, and we read also of a gigantic stump of a roc's quill being prayer and simple contact.

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  • As a whole, the mandrill is characterized by heaviness of body, stoutness and strength of limb, and exceeding shortness of tail, which is a mere stump, not 2 in.

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  • Snow, rain, one is a tree stump, another a ravine.

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  • Our ad sales girl Tracey was expected to stump up £ 750 for a backstreet abortion which is worth no more than £ 400.

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  • Often the nest is built over a decaying tree stump which, along with other decaying tree stump which, along with other decaying organic matter, provides heat.

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  • Regularly at half-past seven, in one part of the summer, after the evening train had gone by, the whip-poor-wills chanted their vespers for half an hour, sitting on a stump by my door, or upon the ridge-pole of the house.

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  • The western tower, commonly known as Boston Stump, forms a landmark for 40 m.

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  • Gloversville, settled originally about 1770, was known for some time as Stump City, its present name being adopted in 1832.

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  • The range of modification of which the rami or limb-branches of the limbs of Arthropoda are capable is very large, and in allied orders or even families or genera we often find d z what is certainly the palp of the same appendage (as determined by numerical position of the segments) - in one case antenniform, in another chelate, in another pediform, and in another reduced to a mere stump or absent altogether.

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  • Each stick was carefully mortised or tenoned by its stump, for I had borrowed other tools by this time.

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  • Harrison's canvass was conspicuous for the immense Whig processions and mass meetings, the numerous " stump " speeches (Harrison himself addressing meetings at Dayton, Chillicothe, Columbus and other places), and the use of campaign songs, of party insignia, and of campaign cries (such as " Tippecanoe and Tyler too "); and in the election he won by an overwhelming majority of 234 electoral votes to 60 cast for Van Buren.

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  • The reduction of the outgrowth-bearing " corm " of the parapodium of either a Chaetopod or an Arthropod to a simple cylindrical stump, devoid of outgrowths, is brought about when mechanical conditions favour such a shape.

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  • The ordinary potto (P. potto) is about the size of a squirrel, but with Poultry And Poultry-Farming large staring eyes, and a mere stump of a tail; its general colour is rufous brown.

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  • The genus which is common to the northern parts of both hemispheres is distinguished by the large cheek-pouches and by the absence or rudimentary condition of the claw of the first hind-toe, resembles Tamias in the slender form of the body, but displays great variation in the length of the tail, which may be a mere stump, or comparatively long.

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  • The species, Spermophilus (or Citillus) citillus, is rather smaller than an ordinary squirrel, with minute ears, and the tail reduced to a stump of less than an inch in length.

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  • She tugged at one of the chunks of wood until she had it sitting straight on the stump, as he had done.

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  • There is nowhere any considerable young growth from seed, although this mode of reproduction is not (as often stated) unknown; the tree will reproduce itself more than once from the stump (hence its name).

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  • With a grimace, she dragged herself next to a tree stump and leaned against it, exhausted.

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  • From the corner of her eye she saw the gray truck pushing a trail down the drive and dodged out of its path, completely forgetting about the stump hidden under the snow.

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  • He did not " stump " the country, but conducted his campaign from the " front porch " of his own home.

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  • At the corner of the Graben, one of the busiest thoroughfares, containing the most fashionable shops in Vienna, is the Stock im Eisen, the stump of a tree, said to be the last survivor of a holy grove round which the original settlement of Vindomina sprang up. It is full of nails driven into it by travelling journeymen.

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