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
Attended by handmaidens who were brightly colored spools of thread, Cleopatra was a filigreed creamer, her Antony a stoppered cruet — and it was somehow no less moving when they died at the end.
From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2018
It was precisely that quality, as vessels of public space easily stoppered, that demonstrators exploited.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2017
Pycelle set a stoppered flask on the table by the bed.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
