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

I looked at the board tables, the instruments shining in the light, the basins and the stoppered bottles.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway