Example Sentences

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The first penalty is a stonewaller and doesn't get given and we play for three, four minutes.

From BBC • Oct. 22, 2022

This terse coach-speak fits the popular image of Belichick as a gruff stonewaller, resistant to all efforts to unearth his inner thoughts.

From Slate • Jan. 22, 2016

Kampelman, who relished the chance to out- stonewall a master stonewaller, told Kvitsinsky, who was now serving as one of Karpov's deputies, "Yuli, I don't see why Victor is so alarmed."

From Time Magazine Archive