stop up
Example Sentences
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Greed also causes overleveraging: You keep adding to a winning position without moving your stop up to protect profits, then suddenly bad news hits, and what was your biggest winner yesterday wipes you out today.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 28, 2026
"I now put the food away when I go to bed, but in the morning I've found the towel I've used to stop up the gap is pulled out and chewed too."
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2023
And so we let crickets be crickets and I stop up my ears.
From Slate ● Feb. 26, 2022
He made a diving stop up the middle on a ball hit by Iglesias and threw to first in time.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 7, 2021
He would hold his nose and stop up his ears when she passed by the house.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
