stoop

"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

I put the juicer on the sidewalk at the bottom of our stoop with a “Free” sign.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

On one stoop, a man gently plucked a guitar.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2026

Some variations that excite me: Tuesday tea on the stoop.

From Salon ● Jan. 27, 2026

After eating, I took the letter I was writing to Uncle Holt and sat on the stoop to finish it.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

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

There was nothing thriving, either, in the Voorstad neighborhood of Deventer, in the Netherlands, where in 2013 two bummed-out middle-aged men were sitting on their stoops, bemoaning the dreariness around them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026

And he drove me a mile down the road to some apartment buildings where people were outside, sitting on stoops, smoking cigarettes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2024

The stoops of brownstone Brooklyn, on which residents routinely leave freebies for passers-by, are a reliable metric of current literary tastes — and distastes.

From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2023

The crowd began to drift back to their stoops, to the drinks they had left on bars.

From "The Contender" by Robert Lipsyte

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

Their deserved place in the final was eventually secured when Mechele caught Nzola with his knee as the Fiorentina substitute stooped for a header, Beltran tucking his penalty into the bottom left corner.

From BBC ● May 8, 2024

For the past three years he had devoted himself to rectitude and—I instantly saw now as he stooped out the door of the plane—growing a stomach.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

DNA is a snooty aristocrat, never stooping to engage in day-to-day tasks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025

“We’re fortunate to live in New York, where stooping is a thing,” Slocum said.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2024

Her single-minded dedication carried into her early years at Lake Taylor High School in Norfolk, where she often found herself stooping to fit in with other girls because of her height.

From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2024

Villa had come close in the first half when United keeper Wes Foderingham saved low from Moussa Diaby before Ezri Konsa sent a stooping far-post header over from a John McGinn corner.

From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2023

She opened the oven and looked at the pan of bread, then stooping she paused while someone descended the stairs.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner