stump

Example Sentences

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“When I came back our country was dead. Now it’s the hottest country on the planet,” he said in what has become the standard stump speech pickup line.

From Salon • Mar. 14, 2026

Brian Hebert, an avocational paleontologist from Nova Scotia, located the small skull inside a fossilized tree stump during a field season led by Hillary Maddin, a professor of paleontology at Carleton University.

From Science Daily • Feb. 11, 2026

The first of those, delivered Monday, sounded in many ways like a campaign stump speech, except longer.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2026

“Its move to stump up an all-cash deal demonstrates how much Netflix wants its prize,” she says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 21, 2026

So far everything was working out fine, but there was one more stump in the way.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls