stump

How to use stump in a sentence

This woman turned her tree stump into a Little Free Library fit for magical elves.

He winds his way through a stump speech with the same inflections and cadences of a Southern preacher.

Once you’re confident you can avoid rocks and stumps, there’s no need to delay the season further.

Prop it up in the fork of a tree or set it on a rock, stump or two forked prop sticks.

Wearing a bandanna fashioned as a headband, a cut-off T-shirt and dark glasses, he was perched on a tree stump and pointing back at the camera.

For hours the gray man would sit on a tombstone, while Black Sheep read epitaphs, and then with a sigh would stump home again.

The cigar stump held firmly between his teeth, he stood on the rug before the hearth, facing the door.

DOPESAX ROHMER

But, just as they were piling some more leaves in the hollow stump, they heard many voices of men shouting in the woods.

Mrs. Maloney sat on a stump near her daughter, and busied herself energetically with alternate nursing and painting.

By sheer good fortune a big tree stump stood under the door of the freight car, or the children never could have opened it.

THE BOX-CAR CHILDRENGERTRUDE CHANDLER WARNER

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985