stump

Example Sentences

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The question seemed designed to stump even the person who wrote the episode, not to mention the obsessives competing in the recent “Seinfeld” trivia competition in New York.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

"We have jobs, but we don't make anything," he added, as he took an axe to a tree stump in a neighbouring plot.

From Barron's • Mar. 14, 2026

“It doesn’t matter. The question is moot,” Jackson intones, before launching into a miniature stump speech.

From Salon • Feb. 22, 2026

Brian Hebert, an avocational paleontologist from Nova Scotia, located the small skull inside a fossilized tree stump during a field season led by Hillary Maddin, a professor of paleontology at Carleton University.

From Science Daily • Feb. 11, 2026

He held his breath when the driver nearly hit a tree stump while plowing through a parched wheat field.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai