stoppered

Example Sentences

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The result of indifference, evasion and avoidance, of stoppered ears and shaded eyes, is not benign.

From Washington Post • May 30, 2020

It was precisely that quality, as vessels of public space easily stoppered, that demonstrators exploited.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2017

What he delivered instead was a small, stoppered phial, neatly labelled “Art and Culture/Clement Greenberg/Distillation 1966”.

From The Guardian • Apr. 9, 2016

It had a plastic vial stoppered by a rubber plug through which were threaded two thin metal tubes, with small rubber hoses attached.

From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2014

And if Luna ever was magic, all that power was now neatly stoppered up and wouldn’t be a problem.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill