Example Sentences

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“I don’t know if it’s sunk in this place around here,” Ms. Greene vented as she headed for the elevators and then for Manchester, N.H., where she was stumping for the former president.

From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2024

Kei Sato, the Liberal Democratic Party politician from Nara for whom Abe was stumping on Friday when he was shot and killed, won reelection.

From Washington Post • Jul. 9, 2022

Taylor was stumping in South Carolina Sunday on her husband’s behalf.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2020

In one, from 1968, Kennedy was stumping with Newsom’s father, Bill, who was running for the State Senate.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 29, 2018

An unsmiling woman in uniform, ticket booklet in hand, was stumping towards them when Ginika jumped in and started the car.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie