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    Use "stoop" in a sentence

    stoop example sentences

    stoop


    stooped


    stooping


    stoops


    1. He had to stoop over inside


    2. I stoop and pick him up to give him a hug


    3. was imagined; Do not stoop to


    4. Another inch and they would have had to stoop


    5. One sunny summer day, when Terry was playing on his own at World Cup in his local park, an old man with a stoop, and who was accompanied by a sour looking fox terrier, called Terry over


    6. World Cup in his local park, an old man with a stoop, and who was


    7. stoop to avoid knocking his head


    8. Who for such dainties would not stoop? Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup! Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup! Beau–ootiful Soo–oop!


    9. The ceiling was slightly lower than the top of Chris’ head so he was forced to stoop slightly


    10. We saw others bend, stoop, then stand upright, as they checked their crops, as well

    11. Ronnie's stoop was even more


    12. Lickspittle, who had to stoop almost in half to get to her height


    13. figure became visible, so small that Toinette had to kneel and stoop


    14. He need not have worried about Madame Macziewskie’s curiosity; the old lady was waiting for them when they arrived hot and dusty at the front stoop of her house


    15. He nodded without genuine assent, stoop upright and walked to where the flask had landed


    16. I heard Jade stoop out of the small space


    17. With Elizabeth beside him on the front stoop of the house, Colling knocked at the door


    18. they stoop to fate


    19. the tall ones stoop now


    20. 13 If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers stoop under him

    21. of man makes it stoop, but a good word makes it glad; The righteous are more excellent than his neighbour, but the way of the wicked


    22. 2 They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but they have gone into captivity


    23. The mouth was not high, I had to stoop to enter, but it was fairly wide


    24. The dog runs up to a house and drops his bag on the stoop


    25. stoop, perched high up on his lap, watching the storms of summer roll past, sharing in


    26. But you had to stoop lower than dirt and involve her


    27. As I stoop to the ground to pick up the phone, I drop my knees to the solid wood


    28. 7 He preached saying "After me comes He who is mightier than I the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and loosen


    29. The sky continued to stoop ever lower, obscuring hints of


    30. I watched Jitter expertly remove the shoe and noticed out of the corner of my eye, Cheet stoop and pick something up on his way to the wagon, but thought nothing of it

    31. “Come on, man, I know Bull is a reprehensible jerk, but even he couldn’t stoop this low


    32. her eyes and then stoop up


    33. But here he came up the stoop


    34. After standing on the stoop looking in the direction of the garage for a few minutes Charly re-entered the house


    35. Upon their arrival at the front stoop, Zen


    36. got so low, I had to stoop


    37. He knew he would never stoop so low as to turn abusive,


    38. Sure he hung out on the stoop with the boys from the block but they were more associates than friends


    39. Except, even he wouldn’t stoop to that level of dishonor


    40. “The garden is protected; the front stoop is not

    41. Lyrics will definitely be harmfull when listened to!’ Chris was amused, it seemed record companies would stoop to anything to sell music these days


    42. This was because he was small in stature and was an older man with a stoop


    43. “Why? Did you think they’d never stoop that low?”


    44. By the time they pulled the four-wheeler up to Angela’s house, D’Antonio had already cleared the driveway, the walkway leading up to her stoop, and the entire porch


    45. No mortal who knows God and seeks to do the divine will can stoop to engage in the oppressions of wealth


    46. It was at Adam that he first made reference to "another one who is to come after me" in answer to the direct question which his disciples asked him, "Are you the Messiah?" And he went on to say: "There will come after me one who is greater than I, whose sandal straps I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose


    47. Power is only given to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up


    48. She saw him stride through the reeds that grew at the water's edge, stoop, and tug at something


    49. And though he refused to stoop to the performance of material wonders or to the enactment of temporal exhibitions of political power, he did now ask the Father's consent for the manifestation of his hitherto unexhibited power over life and death


    50. Stooping for a closer look he became aware of a sinuous movement across the edge of the tile stoop














































    1. Once again the dragon stooped


    2. She stooped to inspect it closely


    3. Stood there was a little old man, all stooped and grey, with a sour looking fox terrier attached to his wrist by means of a length of packaging string


    4. Stood there was a little old man, all stooped and grey, with a


    5. But Jesus stooped


    6. 8And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground


    7. " he stooped down to whisper into her ear


    8. Jesus showed a wonderful picture of servant leadership, as he, the master of all, stooped down and served his followers


    9. his fiftieth summer, with a hooked nose and a stooped


    10. He was a tall, austere looking man who stooped

    11. Within seconds the door was opened by a tall, stooped, gray haired man sporting the uniform and flashes of a warrant officer class 1


    12. He was small and muscular, with a slightly stooped back


    13. The slave, though stooped and gaunt,


    14. Edrimer stooped his head as his executioner stood before him


    15. The trainers the youth wore formed the better part of Danny's stooped view


    16. The landing was dark, and Mr Snickerty could not make out the man's features, but his outline was ragged, his posture was stooped and he had about him the odour of old leather and horses


    17. and I stooped down to settle in for the night when a twinge of fear hit me


    18. Ky stooped down to a large, shapeless and worn canvas holdall lying on the ground by his feet


    19. I knew he was there when he stooped down beside us


    20. Joseph stooped near us and held my hand

    21. His body unnaturally stooped, his nose appeared to be about half the size of a normal nose and his hands had fingers missing


    22. Matthew stooped and picked up Jesus


    23. She stooped to show Jesus the child


    24. He smiled at Shelley comfortingly and stooped to give her a reassuring hug


    25. “What a dear little boy,” Naomi almost cooed, as she stooped so she was eye level with Jesus


    26. ” I stooped and kissed his brow


    27. I stooped and untied the remains of His sandals


    28. Bradlee's and his stooped shoulders either side, the rest of his body hidden by Bradlee's short but wide bulk, his watch arm shooting up and down


    29. The woman went over to a pile of empty boxes in one corner and both Gorge and the rest of us followed then she stooped down


    30. He stooped to rinse his hands in the pond and smiled up at her

    31. wrinkled, and that she stooped as she walked


    32. He stooped and squinted, peering into the shadows amongst the brush


    33. Then slinging her shoes once more around her neck for easy transport back to the Dragon's Caves, she stooped down and gingerly lifted the tiny object from the floor, raising it in front of her face to see it better in the dim light of the chimney hole


    34. The Witch stooped to retrieve the fragment of bark, before glancing at the Black Fox


    35. Once he understood, he stooped towards the wooden box


    36. They ordered sandwiches and tea from the stooped waiter who came to serve them


    37. ” He stooped and placed into my hand a sword sheathed in a scabbard


    38. A few minutes later, a stooped old man came out to see who had rung


    39. him, David stooped with his face to the Earth, and bowed himself


    40. that it was Samuel, and he stooped with his face to the ground, and bowed himself

    41. He stooped again and filled it and drank of it himself


    42. sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or maiden, old man, or him who stooped from age, he


    43. Suchix saw Ah Tutal and stooped down to give him some encouragement


    44. His hair was white, his posture was stooped, and he was clearly overweight and moved slowly as though he was lame, but he was still without expression


    45. His shoulders were stooped and his head bowed, and Maggie knew him immediately


    46. His shoulders stooped back into their normal posture, and he smiled a little


    47. She awoke to see a tall, dark figure coming through the thinning fog, his broad shoulders stooped with weariness


    48. Here were young men, not much older than herself, with hands as rough and weathered as those of their grandfathers, men stooped and grey but still strong


    49. nasty ones were and as he stooped down to pick up the ball he


    50. His friend stooped down to inspect the creature, “Uglier than












































    1. ‘Can you imagine it? Me living in a manor house with staff!’ he chuckled, stooping to pick up another stone and throwing it with some power towards the same rock where it smashed


    2. "So you are Alan, stooping to such a theatrical trick as this?"


    3. and Eric, all as children, Ronnie already stooping although he was only six, Eric with freshly cut


    4. Stooping over the body of the giant cat, the large man cried


    5. “Not far now,” Alex assured them a while later, leaning forward in his seat to point at a large rock shaped like a stooping figure


    6. Stooping he picked it up, but before he could use it Gonzalez had his arm around his neck, squeezing hard, gripping his right wrist so he couldn’t bring the gun into play


    7. Stooping low, he saw grasses, frozen stiff, and more hole


    8. Then stooping down, I began picking mushrooms


    9. Edgar eagerly sought the companionship of his new personal hero who brought dignity to a People forever stooping their shoulders in deference


    10. ―Hello, Keith,‖ I said stooping down to kiss him on the cheek

    11. “Sir Silaran is flying at twice the speed of a stooping hawk as he manifests in his gleaming barding within a hand’s breadth of the leading edge of this flight of twelve renegade Shiganzhu warriors, his head down to present his blade as he charges, with most of his power being channeled through his horn and into that blade to shatter the Shields of his foes


    12. Stooping and looking in he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves and entered into the tomb


    13. The taller one entered first, stooping to avoid the low ceiling, and his companion followed, laying his thick winter gloves in the middle of the table


    14. He ran to the faint light of the doorway, stooping to pick up a stick along the way to combat the bear


    15. his back stooping like that of a beaten old man, he slid his feet


    16. Finally, stooping to duck below a low lintel, she disappeared from view into one of the square’s fancier eating-houses, to the obvious disappointment of the crowd


    17. Stooping, he lifted Natala in his mighty arms as though she had been an infant


    18. Taking Sancha's hand, Conan glided down the stair, stooping so that his head would not be visible above the wall


    19. " Then, stooping over, he spat on the ground and mixed the clay with the spittle, and speaking of all this so that the blind man could hear, he went up to Josiah and put the clay over his sightless eyes, saying: "Go, my son, wash away this clay in the pool of Siloam, and immediately you shall receive your sight


    20. Stooping to look at it over his shoulder, Balthus felt a crawling of the flesh along his spine, he knew not why

    21. As Balthus looked he saw the Cimmerian beat down a thrusting shortsword, avoid the stroke of an ax with a cat-like sidewise spring which brought him within arm's length of a squat savage stooping for a bow


    22. Stooping, he cupped a handful of congealing blood from the sluggish pool in which his victim sprawled, and rubbed it in the copper serpent's eyes until the yellow sparks were covered by a crimson mask


    23. Over all brooded the citadel, like a condor stooping above its prey, intent on its own dark meditations


    24. As he went down the corridor, a figure came hobbling up it, a bent, surly old man, stooping under the weight of his pike and a lantern he bore in one hand


    25. Stooping, he slashed the cords that bound her wrists and lifting her as if she had been a child, strode from the dungeon


    26. Then arose Peter, and ran unto the sepulchre; and stooping down, he beheld the linen clothes laid by themselves, and departed, wondering in himself at that which was come to pass


    27. walking along the shore, stooping occasionally to stuff an interesting


    28. Stooping for a closer look he became aware of a sinuous movement across the edge of the tile stoop


    29. Learning as he went, Samson discovered he could determine most odors by stooping as he progressed, the disturbance caused by his passage enough to stir air currents of sufficient impact to lift scent enough for adequate perusal by his nascent sense of smell


    30. —E'en then would be some stooping; and I choose

    31. The remaining escapees have managed to crawl over a hundred yards or more of the rough ground, and regain their feet to run as best they can whilst stooping in an attempt to avoid being shot


    32. Bob stopped for a few moments stooping next to the drummer as he rapped on a sewer grate


    33. “I’ll try again,” he assured her, stooping to the ground to collect some more ammunition


    34. “I see what you mean,” said Flower, stooping to look over Wilberforce’s shoulder


    35. After stooping to her feet in passion, having conquered her heart with love, he found his way back on her silken slopes with the labial support, and rested his head on the slab of her midriff


    36. He saw himself stooping to help her retrieve her items


    37. ” Hunter replied quietly, stooping to collect his pole from the ground


    38. of stooping to the


    39. Stooping over her to see that her English exercises are correct I like to lay my cheek a moment on it, so lightly that she does not notice, for it is wonderful stuff,--soft, wavy, shining, and ought alone without the little ear and curve of the young cheek, without the silly pretty mouth and kind straightforward eyes, to have immeshed that stupid man beyond all possibility of disentangling himself


    40. I saw all this, though I was stooping over the bushes

    41. "Oh, _poor_ Jim," thought Fanny--hesitating, not quite sure, yet only too sure, and distressed for him that he should be so stooping and so grey


    42. "Your handkerchief, m'lady," she said, stooping, not without a wheeze, and picking it up from the floor where it had been lying since it was swept, by Muriel, out of Fanny's hand


    43. A thundering mass of grey sinuous foreleg attached to a cocked hoof was the last thing the stooping convict saw


    44. "Tut, tut!" said Frau Dosch, becoming scandalised: and stooping down she shouted into Ingeborg's ear: "Frau Pastor--wake up--look at your son--a magnificent fellow--with a chest, I tell you--oh, but he will break the hearts of the maidens he will--"


    45. "That would really be very amusing," he said, stooping down and neatly putting his scattered things together


    46. He felt she made no attempt to draw her hand away, he heard her murmuring something inarticulate--it was merely Good-bye--he was hurled along to his doom; and stooping over her the unfortunate young man kissed her hair


    47. 'Don't be angry, darling Everard,' she whispered, laying her arm on his stooping shoulder


    48. 'Good-bye,' he said shortly, stooping and giving the top of her head a brief, disgusted kiss


    49. Peter arose and ran to the tomb; stooping and looking


    50. Stooping to examine the hound, he then peered into the darkness of the night












































    1. Ted stoops to pick the spoons and ladles up, to hide the evidence, but he is far too old and far too clumsy


    2. There was/is one major difference however, that, compared with modern standards, ethnic neighborhoods, however rundown, were generally safer, crime was lower, immigrant classes better educated, families more tightly knit, homes cleaner, children smiled more and engaged in sidewalk games, neighbors gathered on stoops on sweltering summer evenings, unemployment was lower and drugs virtually


    3. 1 Bel bows down, Nebo stoops; their idols were on the beasts and on the cattle; your carriages were heavy laden; they are a burden to


    4. Why? Without cease, I beg God -- who is so high above us, yet stoops to hear the cries of the lowly -- to answer: O, why? I seek understanding in the words of Holy Scripture: "Many are the afflictions of the righteous man, but the Lord shall deliver him from them all


    5. Lovejoy stoops and buries his rare cigar into the sand and speaks to the four year old boy,


    6. Margarita stoops down to Nadine and says, “Ma’am, I’m going to call the ambulance for you


    7. Thus, is this devilish description appropriate with respect to Al’lah’s messenger (cpth), the most perfect one in all creation, whom Al’lah the Almighty had confirmed in his perfection, and who is the guide of worlds to the straight path? The Almighty says: “And the star when he stoops, your compatriot (Mohammad), is not in error, nor is he deceived! He does not speak out of his own fancy


    8. She was astonished at the tricks life stoops to


    9. " He stoops a bit to look under the table


    10. stoops, the edges of the hole got closer, the density

    11. If it’s clogged or depressed, a person stoops in the re-


    12. Stoops to his base, and with a hideous crash


    13. Set me the stoops of wine upon that table


    14. Bloom stoops his back for leapfrog


    15. The walls splinter; he stoops, crawls


    16. He stoops to help me to my feet and leads me to the door, on the back of which hangs a grey waffle robe


    17. These latter made time stretch; he had memories of looking up from stoops they’d plopped down on, smiling at the various freaks who paraded by


    18. For years, on feast days, the neighbors down on the Lower East Side would gather on stoops and in windows while he rolled up his sleeves and made the fire dance


    19. And from all around, rooftops and stoops and passing cars, came that other adhesive: the music


    20. Old women in housedresses gawk at the crazed white boy streaking past their stoops, but at least they don’t call the cops

    21. Battered storefronts, burnt-out cars, gangs of menacing ethnics perched on stoops in the dark


    22. Egg and Sam Stoops had gotten the wine inside, it seemed


    23. ” Sam Stoops had told him


    24. “Sam Stoops says the castellan at Coldmoat is as big as you are


    25. Sam Stoops began to pray


    26. well to which he has crept is poisoned, yet stoops and


    27. "Yes, observe, observe," cried Liputin, as though he had not heard Stepan Trofimovitch, "observe what must be her agitation and uneasiness if she stoops from her grandeur to appeal to a man like me, and even condescends to beg me to keep it secret


    28. [GROSSMAN stoops and finds the spoon in the bag


    29. He is frightened, and stoops)


    30. Most of them had balconies of carved woodwork, and high stone stoops with gleaming brass rails

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    Synonyms for "stoop"

    stoop stoep stoup bend bow crouch condescend lower oneself patronise patronize sink deign descend incline lean

    "stoop" definitions

    an inclination of the top half of the body forward and downward


    basin for holy water


    small porch or set of steps at the front entrance of a house


    bend one's back forward from the waist on down


    debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way


    descend swiftly, as if on prey


    sag, bend, bend over or down


    carry oneself, often habitually, with head, shoulders, and upper back bent forward