Example Sentences

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At Cairo airport, officials have been stamping visitors’ passports with a special stamp counting down the days until the inauguration.

From The Guardian • Aug. 2, 2015

In the factories of the three big disc makers�Victor, Columbia, Decca�record-pressing machines have been stamping out discs 24 hours a day, and not only because of Christmas.

From Time Magazine Archive

All night long Dolby and our man have been stamping tickets.

From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2, 1857-1870 by Dickens, Mamie

Why for all the snow in which I have been stamping about!

From The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature by Various

He might have been stamping with his feet, or cocking up his ears, for very frequently, as I advanced, he was almost entirely concealed by the thick bushes.

From My First Voyage to Southern Seas by Pearse, Alfred