Example Sentences

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If there is anything more sickening than O’Reilly’s reported behavior, it is stooping to use his own children as a shield and the excuse of fatherly love to evade responsibility.

From Washington Post • Apr. 20, 2017

While he is stooping down rubbing his feet, it throws itself with delirious joy around his head, and he is black in the face before he can struggle away from its embrace. 

From Diary of a Pilgrimage by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)

This woman was συγκύπτȣσα, that is, stooping forward; being unable ἀνακύψαι, or to lift up her head.

From Medica Sacra or a Commentary on on the Most Remarkable Diseases Mentioned in the Holy Scriptures by Mead, Richard

The night is stooping to the west, the day is rising from the east, the morning red is leaping from the clouds, the sun looks through.

From The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times by Biese, Alfred

The figure has a sword in its hand, and looks up to a sky full of fire, out of which the form of the Deity is stooping, represented as white and colorless.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) by Ruskin, John