stopped up
Example Sentences
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With crude exports from Iranian ports effectively stopped up, the country will be deprived of a large chunk of its oil revenues.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Others have been stopped up on purpose with cotton balls or whatever else came to hand in an emergency after air valves stuck open.
From Washington Post • Sep. 25, 2022
Sater told New York Magazine: “I stopped up to say hello to Donald, and he says, ‘You gotta come here.’”
From The Guardian • Aug. 31, 2017
On the way out, against orders, he stopped up the whole procession to actually talk to the contestants.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 9, 2016
The dam stopped up Haiti’s largest river, the Artibonite, and flooded some of the most fertile farmland in the central plateau.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
