the stuff

Example Sentences

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This is, to put it plainly, the stuff of well-considered emotional rawness, painstaking portraiture of our collective pasts.

From Salon • May 12, 2026

“It just, he had a full dislocation. So they just put the stuff back together. You know, he’ll be day-to-day.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

The defenseman’s sessions with his younger brothers, New Jersey Devils players Jack and Luke, are the stuff of legend.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026

It was the stuff of movie fantasy - a digger gouging earth on a building site suddenly revealing a cascade of gold.

From BBC • Apr. 25, 2026

“Can you get rid of the stuff we won’t need down there?”

From "A Soft Place to Land" by Janae Marks