stop up
Example Sentences
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Greed also causes overleveraging: You keep adding to a winning position without moving your stop up to protect profits, then suddenly bad news hits, and what was your biggest winner yesterday wipes you out today.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 28, 2026
In the ninth, Suarez hit a two-out double off Jose Leclerc, but Nathaniel Lowe made a diving stop up the line at first base stop a hard-hit grounder Dominic Canzone’s bat.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 24, 2023
"I now put the food away when I go to bed, but in the morning I've found the towel I've used to stop up the gap is pulled out and chewed too."
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2023
And so we let crickets be crickets and I stop up my ears.
From Slate • Feb. 26, 2022
It was because you wadded up your underdrawers to stop up the flue on the stove and smoke out the schoolhouse.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
