stoop

"I don't like to be like everybody else. I've often made the statement that I would never stoop so low as to be fashionable. That's the easiest thing in the world to do."

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

Then I tossed them in a bag and set them at the bottom of the stoop.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

Many Christian leaders, to be fair, were also outraged that the president would stoop so low on the holiest day of the Christian year.

From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2026

Hou said they found the noodle package sitting on the stoop.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2026

Today, for instance, I could see the brook that ran near our paddy field so clearly that I felt I had but to stoop to feel its water wet on my hands.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

Participating artists not only play on porches and front stoops in the Mission District but also in backyards, parklets, storefronts and district venues.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

There was nothing thriving, either, in the Voorstad neighborhood of Deventer, in the Netherlands, where in 2013 two bummed-out middle-aged men were sitting on their stoops, bemoaning the dreariness around them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026

When they headed south from Roberta’s apartment on Avenue C around 10, there were two-foot drifts against the side of stoops.

From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2024

Kids race through the spray of a fire hydrant and families barbecue on their front stoops.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2023

Not all of them served, but they can remember, and they love nothing better than to sit on the stoops and spout off about the old days.

From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz

Ibrahim Said stooped to head in his first goal for the club before Elliott Watt capitalised on a mistake from Kasper Schmeichel.

From Barron's ● Dec. 30, 2025

The name "chikungunya" comes from the Kimakonde language, meaning "that which bends up," a reference to the stooped posture caused by the severe joint pain that often accompanies the infection.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2025

Time was running out when Dier stooped to nod a free-kick towards goal, but was instead kicked in the head by City substitute Nico Gonzalez.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2025

I stooped to embrace him and told him what I’d needed to hear as a boy.

From Slate ● Apr. 27, 2025

This person has stooped, narrow shoulders and a prowling kind of walk.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish

About 40% of people in their 60s have some difficulty crouching, kneeling or stooping.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

DNA is a snooty aristocrat, never stooping to engage in day-to-day tasks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025

“We’re fortunate to live in New York, where stooping is a thing,” Slocum said.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2024

A run of six innings without a half-century is the longest since the tail end of his captaincy, stooping to a nadir with his reverse scoop at Jasprit Bumrah in the first innings in Rajkot.

From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2024

Fledge visited the river too but he only stood in midstream, stooping down for a long drink of water and then shaking his mane and neighing several times.

From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis