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

We were both silent, stumped for a minute because yeah, Sandy June’s was definitely a special place, but was it . . . magical?

From Literature

“You made me promise not to get rid of that half-dead stump of a plant, so you owe me a promise too.”

From Literature

But if one had seen it on the forest floor, one would have thought it was merely an oddly shaped stump: the cover made of scaly bark, the thick pages bound with twine.

From Literature

All around, tree stumps bear tell‑tale signs of busy activity, gnawed into points with teeth marks still clearly visible.

From BBC