stoppered
Example Sentences
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The result of indifference, evasion and avoidance, of stoppered ears and shaded eyes, is not benign.
From Washington Post ● May 30, 2020
It was precisely that quality, as vessels of public space easily stoppered, that demonstrators exploited.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2017
What he delivered instead was a small, stoppered phial, neatly labelled “Art and Culture/Clement Greenberg/Distillation 1966”.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 9, 2016
It had a plastic vial stoppered by a rubber plug through which were threaded two thin metal tubes, with small rubber hoses attached.
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2014
The little man stoppered and pocketed the little bottle, shouldered his pack, and the two of them walked together down the green path through the grey wood.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
