Example Sentences

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Harold’s people, like me, well they could be found daydreaming in cemeteries or sipping coffee on the stoops of abandoned houses.

From Salon • Feb. 17, 2026

There was nothing thriving, either, in the Voorstad neighborhood of Deventer, in the Netherlands, where in 2013 two bummed-out middle-aged men were sitting on their stoops, bemoaning the dreariness around them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026

There are a disturbing number of videos showing an easy way to create concrete walkways, sidewalks and door stoops.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 18, 2024

She stoops to pluck weeds around delicate yellow flowers.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 21, 2023

Besides, old women must know something, or they wouldn’t live to gather wrinkles and yell from their front stoops.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo