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

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

Some visitors say it feels like their ears are stopped up, because they hear so much less noise than usual.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 3, 2017

Earn is emotionally constipated, stopped up, bottled up.

From Slate • Sep. 7, 2016

With the closure of the port, most of the College’s income was stopped up and its investments nullified; and so to anxiety was added penury.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson