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Example sentences for "stoops"

Lexicographically close words:
stoop; stoope; stooped; stoopid; stooping; stoor; stop; stopcock; stopcocks; stope
  1. Blake CLXXV When lovely woman stoops to folly And finds too late that men betray,-- What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away?

  2. Winged Victory turned to the left stoops forward, raising her right foot in order to adjust or unfasten her sandal.

  3. The Satyr stoops forward, breaking off with both hands a branch of the tree, which he is about to use as a weapon.

  4. He traverses a forum, enters a court-yard, stoops under a gate, and he arrives before the front of the palace, adorned with a group in wax representing the Emperor Constantine hurling the dragon to the earth.

  5. He stoops down and gazes over the precipice.

  6. For the rebels with their multitude drave back the citizens from the stoops at the bridge foot to the draw bridge, and began to set fire to diverse houses.

  7. The Editor (stoops to lift the body, but gets up again).

  8. The Editor (stoops down again, but gets up once more.

  9. He stoops over her, and taking the sweet white face in his hands, kisses the pale, drawn lips.

  10. When the boy stoops (to catch him), the blackbird escapes a little further on.

  11. The old woman rises to go to the fire, and as she stoops to take it, [101] the man seizes the flint and escapes, running as if he would break his feet.

  12. Mr. Colman farther observed, that the Managers really had no other play in readiness besides "She Stoops to Conquer;" and recommended those who were displeased with it to receive their money and retire.

  13. Thus he waves all pleas, and shews of pleas, and stoops his neck immediately to the block.

  14. He stoops to make them His friends, and there are none so low but that they may be His.

  15. Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die; and when she stoops to be disagreeable, it is equally to be recommended as a clearer of ill-fame.

  16. She stoops that she may conquer = She stoops to conquer.

  17. He stoops down and shakes the prostrate man violently.

  18. The policeman stoops down, lays his hand upon her temples, then mechanically feels her arms and hands.

  19. Tarik looks at Lagrimas, then stoops and kisses the hem of her dress.

  20. Stoops and takes a small red bag from Chang's breast.

  21. She stoops to gather up the peanuts, but catches a glimpse of Bart's side face, and sits on floor, looking at him intently.

  22. Thus he waives all pleas, and stoops his neck immediately to the block.

  23. To my amusement and astonishment she then asked quite seriously, "Do you think that is why he stoops so much?

  24. Thus when the Rao of Cutch sacrifices a buffalo, "as it stoops to eat, a few drops of water are scattered between its horns.

  25. When red dusk makes the western sky A fire-lit window through the firs, He stoops to see the red-fox die Among the chestnut's broken burs.

  26. But he did not carry his finery like a hog in armour, as an Englishman so often does when an Englishman stoops to be fine.

  27. He is about five feet six in height, and even with that stoops greatly.

  28. You stand on one of the stoops at the corner of Fifth avenue and Thirty-fourth street at midday, and you'll see a sight that will make you happy for the rest of your days.

  29. So, on the following Sunday the Dwarf climbed up on one of the front stoops on Fifth avenue, near Thirty-fourth street, and waited.


  30. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stoops" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.