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
Each bottle had a few centimetres of gelatinous cereal at the bottom, and was stoppered with a wad of cotton.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 6, 2020
Attended by handmaidens who were brightly colored spools of thread, Cleopatra was a filigreed creamer, her Antony a stoppered cruet — and it was somehow no less moving when they died at the end.
From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2018
It was precisely that quality, as vessels of public space easily stoppered, that demonstrators exploited.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2017
Mama held a stoppered vial with dried flowers in it that Anya had made into tea many times.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
