stope
Americannoun
verb (used with or without object)
noun
verb
Etymology
Origin of stope
1740–50; apparently < Low German stope; see stoop 2
Example Sentences
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We need to stope mistaking success for heroism.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2017
She’s that Cornish seeress, that predicted the big cave in the stope of the Last Chance mine, and now I know she’s good.
From Silver and Gold A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp by Dane Coolidge
This order of stope has the same limitations in general as the underhand kind.
From Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration by Herbert Hoover
And I blinked as I went out of the white November sunshine into Macartney's new tunnel, and the candlelight of his humming stope.
From The La Chance Mine Mystery by George W. Gage
I was in Thompson's abandoned stope all right,—only Macartney had sealed up the only way I could ever get out!
From The La Chance Mine Mystery by George W. Gage
All major Russian airlines have since stoped flying west beyond neighboring Belarus.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2022
The Swiss-based group, which has already stoped all advertising in Russia, added it will continue supplying essential food products in the country.
From Reuters ● Mar. 9, 2022
“We have our hostages, testing, research and all missle launches have stoped, and these pundits, who have called me wrong from the beginning, have nothing else they can say! We will be fine!”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 11, 2018
In his three starts, he has stoped 83 of the 86 shots he has faced, including 37 against the high-powered Washington Capitals.
From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2015
"Peregrina" mountain was almost another Mammoth Cave, so enormous are the caverns that have been "stoped out" of it in the past four centuries.
From Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond by Harry Alverson Franck
The inspirational quotes become increasingly absurd, disturbing, ungrammatical: “your ‘family’ is stoping you from being successful” — Anonymous; “The road to success is a rod that will take you to succes” — Colin R. Das.
From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2020
"Let me be clear: I have consistently called on white males like me to step, take responsibility, and be a part of stoping the sexism and bigotry that other white males engage in," Avenatti wrote.
From Fox News ● Oct. 25, 2018
More often than not, such a ploy was successful in stoping City, and therein lies the challenge this season – can they find an effective plan B, particularly when Kaka is missing?
From The Guardian ● Apr. 4, 2016
As discussed already, plutons can interact with the rocks into which they are intruded, sometimes leading to partial melting of the country rock or to stoping and formation of xenoliths.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
As shoveling is the most costly system of transport known, any means of stoping that decreases the need for it has merit.
From Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration by Herbert Hoover
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