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

Rare moments of pure joy ought to be stoppered in a bottle, or at least captured on an iPhone.

From New York Times • Nov. 8, 2015

She had the grain bag packed with mealie meal, yams, and dried kudu meat, plus a few tightly stoppered calabashes of water.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer