stump

Example Sentences

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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

“Its move to stump up an all-cash deal demonstrates how much Netflix wants its prize,” she says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 21, 2026

Rana broke through to have Nicholls caught behind with a slower delivery outside off stump and then bowled Conway in his next over.

From Barron's • Jan. 11, 2026

They were jumping from one stump to the next stump and shouting.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder