stoop
Example Sentences
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But when she rose from her bed, she looked so old and tired, so pale and stooped.
From Literature
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My intention is to get in that house, get off the front stoop, bring them into the house, and then I got them.
From Los Angeles Times
Harold’s people, like me, well they could be found daydreaming in cemeteries or sipping coffee on the stoops of abandoned houses.
From Salon
Jeb stooped to pick up a hedge apple and pitched it across the road.
From Literature
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My back stooped and bulged; I was bald in all the places you’d want hair and bushy in places you didn’t.
From Literature
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.