Example Sentences

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The stone had been pushed back and the searchers were stooping beneath the narrow entrance.

From The Fortieth Door by Bradley, Mary Hastings

The brethren at the head of the bier were stooping to examine something, while a group of idle workmen, with features paled and sharpened by hunger, were clustering around and all talking at once.

From Romola by Eliot, George

Close to us two men were stooping with heads almost knocking together and searching the ground, while one of them husbanded a lighted match against the wind.

From Leaves from a Field Note-Book by Morgan, John Hartman

They were stooping, blear-eyed, dull old men, slip-shod and shabby, in long-skirted short-waisted coats and meagre trousers, and yet with a ghost of gentility hovering in their company.

From Reprinted Pieces by Dickens, Charles

They were stooping down to arrange with others the lifting of something up to them.

From Letters from France by Bean, C. E. W. (Charles Edwin Woodrow)