stopped up
Example Sentences
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With crude exports from Iranian ports effectively stopped up, the country will be deprived of a large chunk of its oil revenues.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Sater told New York Magazine: “I stopped up to say hello to Donald, and he says, ‘You gotta come here.’”
From The Guardian • Aug. 31, 2017
On the way out, against orders, he stopped up the whole procession to actually talk to the contestants.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 9, 2016
Many of the jars held numerous test tubes stopped up with cotton.
From Washington Post • Mar. 19, 2016
Bono came to our fly, bursting full of news; but seeing this tableau, he stopped up his tongue.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
