Example Sentences

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There were so many things going on with the police stoppings and stuff at the time, and it just really hit me.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2020

Smith also likes to push his clarinet above top C or to engage in a series of strangely manipulated double and triple stoppings.

From Time Magazine Archive

We know diseases of stoppings and suffocations are the most dangerous in the body; and it is not much otherwise in the mind.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright

In one of these stoppings, Lord Courtown backed a little from the suite to talk with us, and he said he saw what benefit I reaped from the waters!

From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 2 by Burney, Fanny

When she speaks she is really charming, and I do love her gold stoppings.

From A Young Girl's Diary by Paul, Eden