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

The student stoppered herself and stood, then put her poem on Peggy’s desk:

From The New Yorker • Apr. 15, 2019

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

The domovoi handed the vial to Babulya, and she stoppered the top before shoving it at Anya.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack