stoop
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"I don't like to be like everybody else. I've often made the statement that I would never stoop so low as to be fashionable. That's the easiest thing in the world to do."
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Soon they’d been talking for nearly half an hour, standing out in the chill on the man’s stoop.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2025
These festive stoop setups are the product of a new seasonal micro-economy: pumpkin entrepreneurs and porch stylists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2025
Regina George would never stoop to such lame material.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2025
Smitty and PJ were sitting on my stoop rolling a basketball back and forth between them.
From "Miracle's Boys" by Jacqueline Woodson
She stoops to blackmail to force Nana to steal Ericka’s file from the headmistress’s office in the hope of unearthing some damning or disqualifying revelation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Participating artists not only play on porches and front stoops in the Mission District but also in backyards, parklets, storefronts and district venues.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
Harold’s people, like me, well they could be found daydreaming in cemeteries or sipping coffee on the stoops of abandoned houses.
From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2026
Kids race through the spray of a fire hydrant and families barbecue on their front stoops.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2023
Fourteen people out on the stoops, sitting around because there wasn’t any boring thing else to do in boring Marysville.
From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
Ibrahim Said stooped to head in his first goal for the club before Elliott Watt capitalised on a mistake from Kasper Schmeichel.
From Barron's ● Dec. 30, 2025
The name "chikungunya" comes from the Kimakonde language, meaning "that which bends up," a reference to the stooped posture caused by the severe joint pain that often accompanies the infection.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2025
I stooped to embrace him and told him what I’d needed to hear as a boy.
From Slate ● Apr. 27, 2025
It had been a drab affair at the City Ground until Morgan Gibbs-White flicked on a Forest corner and, from just four yards out, midfielder Dominguez stooped to head goalwards.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2024
As it turned out, the doorway already had an inhabitant: a stooped, ancient woman who blended effortlessly into the shadows.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
About 40% of people in their 60s have some difficulty crouching, kneeling or stooping.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
DNA is a snooty aristocrat, never stooping to engage in day-to-day tasks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025
There was no back-breaking stooping: Trimmers sat on benches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025
“We’re fortunate to live in New York, where stooping is a thing,” Slocum said.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2024
He surveyed the green lawn, quickly but thoroughly, stooping often to the earth.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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