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Example sentences for "stooped"

Lexicographically close words:
stooles; stools; stoon; stoop; stoope; stoopid; stooping; stoops; stoor; stop
  1. He stooped down upon all-fours, wrapped up in his plaid, so as to be scarce distinguishable from the heathy ground on which he moved, and advanced in this posture to reconnoitre.

  2. As she stooped to the floor Heinrich seized her by the neck and held another knife to her throat.

  3. At last in one such moment the giant stooped to clutch a huge boulder with which he meant to overwhelm his adversary, when, overreaching himself, he slipped and fell headlong down the steep rocks.

  4. He stooped and plucked a lily that grew beside Gluck's feet.

  5. Oh, poor, poor mother," said the prince pityingly; and he stooped and kissed her withered lips.

  6. You see, Boss, I is a little nigger and I really is more smaller now dan I used to be when I was young 'cause I so old and stooped over.

  7. I was scared to death, but I stooped down to pick up a stone.

  8. We'll get through all right yet," he called back, as he stooped to take up the sledrope.

  9. The Colonel stooped his big body till he was on a level with the staring round eyes.

  10. The Boy stooped and saw his friend's feet disappearing in a hole.

  11. The child stooped to pick up his wooden cricket, wavered, and was about to fall.

  12. Keith's eyes were on the Boy, who had stooped and picked up the block of wood that had fitted over the treasure-hole.

  13. Father Wills stooped and gathered up some moss that the wind had swept almost bare of snow.

  14. If a kitten he had stooped to pet had suddenly turned and gouged him with its claws he could have been no more startled.

  15. He stooped to put his tobacco stained lips close to Joe's ear.

  16. As I stooped to pick up a pot, somethink brushed by me.

  17. They took a light with them, and coming upon the body of a man, they stooped to see who it was.

  18. I stooped and picked up a watch, which I put into my pocket with a feeling of relief at a danger averted.

  19. For a few moments I thought she had gone mad, and I stooped to raise her from the floor, upon which she had fallen.

  20. He stooped and snatched them up, with the loss perhaps of a second in all,--no more.

  21. At the last moment, when all the preparations were completed, Old Sophy stooped over her, and, with trembling hand, loosed the golden cord.

  22. O Love Divine, that stooped to share Our sharpest pang, our bitterest tear, On Thee we cast each earthborn care, We smile at pain while Thou art near!

  23. This also write exultantly: No loftier pride 'neath heaven Unto the shame of Calvary Stooped ever yet its crest.

  24. He stooped and kissed her, and went to his chamber.

  25. Then he stooped suddenly and kissed her hand.

  26. For a moment the warriors seemed helpless with mingled awe and admiration, but when Bradford stooped to grab his empty rifle they came out of their trance.

  27. As Lucien stooped to lift the helpless head his own blood, spurting from the wound in his neck, flooded the face and covered the clothes of the limp foreman.

  28. Then, after a word of warning, he stooped down and struck a match, but the draught that blew up the opening extinguished it on the instant.

  29. I shall have you easy enough," said Lawrence, as he gradually stepped up to the place and stooped and poised himself ready for the spring.

  30. The Turk went close up to them, pistol in hand, and the men stooped and lifted the basket, carrying it between them sulkily to where Mr Burne and Lawrence were breathlessly watching the proceedings.

  31. Yussuf did not speak, but stooped to pick up the fallen cigar, which he handed to its owner.

  32. Lawrence walked to the spring, stooped down, and began drinking, dipping up a little water at a time in the hollow of his hand.

  33. But Jesus, having stooped down, was writing with his finger in the ground.

  34. So she stooped forward as she stood on the step, and kissed him, and her tears fell on his cheek.

  35. She stooped forward as she stood on the step, and kissed him.

  36. Lenehan began to paw the tissues up from the floor, grunting as he stooped twice.

  37. A stooped bearded figure appears garbed in the long caftan of an elder in Zion and a smokingcap with magenta tassels.

  38. Mr Bloom stooped and turned over a piece of paper on the strand.

  39. When you two begin Nosey Flynn stooped towards the lever, snuffling at it.

  40. He is older now (you and I may whisper it) and a trifle stooped in the shoulders yet in the whirligig of years a grave dignity has come to the conscientious second accountant of the Ulster bank, College Green branch.

  41. She stooped towards it and raised it from the floor.

  42. The moment you had stooped to such a step, in his estimation you had forfeited all right to that condition of equality which renders intercourse agreeable.

  43. He stooped a good deal, and walked tenderly; and as the Countess was most eager about the grounds and the gardens, they parted company very soon, he going into the house to sit down, while she prosecuted her inquiries without doors.

  44. He stooped to fasten, a fallen carnation to the stick it had been attached to, and then resumed his walk.

  45. I plead guilty to one only treachery; and this I stooped to, to avoid the shame and disgrace of an open scandal.

  46. Alsatia of ours at the time you proposed, for the hawks have stooped upon it.

  47. Then, as if struck by another thought, he stooped again over his baggage, and drew forth a fresh, untouched bottle of whisky.

  48. Mechanically, he stooped to feel the chain with his free hand.

  49. In the vast silence of the wood, the lightest sounds were audible from far; and Alicia, who was keen of hearing, held up her finger warningly, and stooped to listen.

  50. The dealer stooped once more, this time to replace the glass upon the shelf, his thin blond hair falling over his eyes as he did so.

  51. Dick stooped to the window and looked in.

  52. I stammered a confused reply, smothered by the children, who had climbed on my back when I stooped to kiss their mother.

  53. Another hailstorm of kisses, the goddess stooped towards me, ready to surrender.

  54. At night she often treated the servants to liqueurs; I heard their whispering voices, but I never stooped so low as to listen at her door.

  55. Kennedy said nothing, but as one of the firemen roughly but reverently covered the remains with a rubber sheet, he stooped down and withdrew from the breast of the woman a long letter-file.

  56. He stooped to pick them up, and I saw a strange look of surprise on his face.

  57. Captain Cumnock stooped to their verdict on themselves, with marvel at the quantity of flesh they managed to put on their bones from such dieting.

  58. Had it been the indignant she played, he might have stooped to cajole the handsome queen of gypsies she was, without acknowledgement of her right to complain.

  59. Then he stooped to the fire, spreading the edges unevenly, so that they caught flame.

  60. She stooped and examined the blue merino.

  61. Religion seemed to be expecting some one; she never stooped to pick up an armful of stalks without glancing up the road.

  62. She even stooped to guard against any possible projects of Philip by fresh negotiations for a marriage with one of the Austrian archdukes.

  63. She cherished no petty resentments; she never stooped to envy or suspicion of the men who served her.


  64. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stooped" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    couchant; debased; depressed; flat; low; neap; prone; prostrate; recumbent; runty; short; squat; stooped; stumpy; supine