stump

Example Sentences

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"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

“It doesn’t matter. The question is moot,” Jackson intones, before launching into a miniature stump speech.

From Salon • Feb. 22, 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

Knew an old man back in Illinois who lost his toes to frostbite, walked like he had a stump for a foot.

From "Worth" by A. LaFaye