stump

Example Sentences

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The question seemed designed to stump even the person who wrote the episode, not to mention the obsessives competing in the recent “Seinfeld” trivia competition in New York.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

"We have jobs, but we don't make anything," he added, as he took an axe to a tree stump in a neighbouring plot.

From Barron's • Mar. 14, 2026

“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

Nali had simply placed a large bowl on top of a wooden stump next to the Cleaning tank on the eastern side of the chaha’oh and called it the washing area.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young