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Example sentences for "stunting"

Lexicographically close words:
stuns; stunsail; stunsails; stunt; stunted; stunts; stupa; stupas; stupe; stupefaction
  1. The wilting and stunting were all located in one corner of the field, on both sides of which large black walnut trees were growing, and extended out in the field for a distance somewhat greater than the height of the trees.

  2. The larvae hatch in a few days and tunnel through the pith of the shoots seriously injuring and stunting their growth while the infested nuts soon fall from the tree.

  3. In 1942, a very definite case of wilting and stunting was noted in cabbage plants growing in the vicinity of a black walnut tree.

  4. These two instances of wilting and stunting of plants in the vicinity of walnut trees give further circumstantial evidence that the trouble might have been caused by the toxicity or antagonism of black walnut roots.

  5. From these field and laboratory studies, it was concluded that the wilting and stunting were not produced by a plant pathogen.

  6. During the past years, a number of instances of stunting and wilting of tomato plants in the vicinity of black walnut trees has been observed.

  7. Now, Don is as good an amateur pilot as you'll find; but he lacks stunting experience.

  8. Brother who Smoked, thereby destroying his Vital Organs, his Good Looks, and Stunting his Body.

  9. Ellis) and a slight anatomical stunting of the organs.

  10. The frequent stooping and the bending to the low machines common to both these branches of work have, in general, a stunting effect upon the growth of the operative.

  11. This condemnation to be buried alive in the mill, to give constant attention to the tireless machine is felt as the keenest torture by the operatives, and its action upon mind and body is in the long run stunting in the highest degree.

  12. The natural result of training a pupil along those lines is that he graduates rapidly into a good stunting pilot.

  13. Army pilots who have had a good course in stunting would certainly recommend the same for civilian pilots.

  14. The large naval flying-boats, for instance, describe a circle two thousand feet in diameter for each turnover--it is almost obvious that not much stunting is done on these boats.

  15. There have been accidents due to stunting by both inexperienced and experienced pilots.

  16. So just remember--no stunting this trip or you'll be out of the strata for the rest of your natural life.

  17. Caught the chief's attention with your stunting and almost knocked the crooks out with it too.

  18. Illustration: There would be hell to pay; Larson was stunting again.

  19. It was damn fast thinking," the chief cut in belligerently, "you knew your stunting over the base would drive me crazy.

  20. Sometimes," he remarked piously, "stunting has its uses.

  21. You can't bring your crate in to the base without stunting around and showing off and risking your damn neck.

  22. The chief told me that if you so much as thought about clowning around or stunting he was going to clip your wings for good.

  23. This stunting of the race begins with the education of the child.

  24. Speaking on the employment of Indians in the Public Services, Gopal Krishna Gokhale said: A kind of dwarfing or stunting of the Indian race is going on under the present system.

  25. From Aucassin to Nietzsche men have resented it as a partial and stunting dream.

  26. Whoever is removing the stunting environments of our occupations is doing the fundamentals of reform.

  27. What evidences of "a fatal and stunting arrestation of development"!

  28. In sixty brief minutes Maben had tried to cram into his cranium all the vast maze of desperately important facts that one needs must master prior to stunting and parachuting.

  29. He ain't got but an hour to be taught all there is to this here stunting business.

  30. Even though the mere touch of a plane and the call of the air were a delightful lure, he knew aero-stunting was a risky business.

  31. We consider it a further corroboration if this is substantiated by a striking stunting in the sexual life of mature years, as if a part of the sexual activity had now been replaced by the activity of the predominant impulse.

  32. He went dizzily stunting around the country, until' he got himself the reputation of being just plain crazy, but a great flyer.

  33. Well, it seems that Hawks was stunting down in Mexico, and doing quite a bit of private flying.

  34. He heard that there was going to be a sale of army planes down in Georgia, and he went down and bought a Curtiss Jenny with the money that he had saved from his stunting work.

  35. He spotted only five of them and guessed that one had come to grief in the circus stunting they had been forced to do.

  36. The only thing wrong with it was that the target had shifted course suddenly, leaving them in a wild tangle with a lot of stunting to be done before they could close in again.

  37. If necessary, but I understand you are a stunting fool.

  38. He’s stunting now—and waggling his wings at us.

  39. The stunting ship straightened out abruptly and headed for home.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stunting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acrobatics; banking; dive; diving; glide; rolling; spiral; stall; volplane; zoom