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

“When I came back our country was dead. Now it’s the hottest country on the planet,” he said in what has become the standard stump speech pickup line.

From Salon • Mar. 14, 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

The first of those, delivered Monday, sounded in many ways like a campaign stump speech, except longer.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2026

With his free hand, he’s eating a blueberry muffin, and he’s eating it the way he always eats his muffins, first the stump, then the top.

From "A High Five for Glenn Burke" by Phil Bildner