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
The student stoppered herself and stood, then put her poem on Peggy’s desk:
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 15, 2019
It was precisely that quality, as vessels of public space easily stoppered, that demonstrators exploited.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2017
What he delivered instead was a small, stoppered phial, neatly labelled “Art and Culture/Clement Greenberg/Distillation 1966”.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 9, 2016
Tries not to think about hunger or thirst, the stoppered void in his left ear, Bernd in the corner, the Austrians upstairs, Frederick, Frau Elena, Jutta, any of it.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
