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

Attended by handmaidens who were brightly colored spools of thread, Cleopatra was a filigreed creamer, her Antony a stoppered cruet — and it was somehow no less moving when they died at the end.

From New York Times • Sep. 12, 2018

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

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2017

The little man stoppered and pocketed the little bottle, shouldered his pack, and the two of them walked together down the green path through the grey wood.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman