Stoop

"Stoop" in a Sentence (32 examples)

I had to stoop to go into the room.

I won't stoop to his level.

I won't stoop down to his level.

After a while, my father got angry and said “It seems your wife will not stoop to being a substitute writer!”

Don't stoop to Tom's level.

Tom was sitting on the stoop.

You didn't have to stoop so low.

She would not stoop to admit that she meant to rival Gilbert in schoolwork, because that would have been to acknowledge his existence.

She gave me her hand, but with such sweetness and dignity that I could only stoop and kiss it.

Tom would never stoop this low.

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The old man walked with a stoop.

Theo Walcott's final pass has often drawn criticism but there could be no complaint in the 11th minute when his perfect delivery to the far post only required a stoop and a nod of the head from Young to put England ahead.

At length the hawk got the upper hand, and made a rushing stoop at her quarry

He stooped to tie his shoe-laces.

Their walk had continued not more than ten minutes when they crossed a creek by a wooden bridge and came to a row of mean houses standing flush with the street. At the door of one, an old black woman had stooped to lift a large basket, piled high with laundered clothes.

Pedersen took a short corner and El-Hadji Diouf was given time to send in a cross for Mame Diouf to stoop and head home from close range.

Can you believe that a salesman would stoop so low as to hide his customers' car keys until they agreed to the purchase?

the holy eagle Stoop'd, as to foote vs: his Ascension is More sweet then our blest Fields

Presently the bird stooped and seized a salmon, and a violent struggle ensued.

to stoop a cask of liquor

Many of those whose states so tempt thine ears / Are stoopt by death; and many left alive.

The grasse stoops not, she treads on it so light

Mighty in her ships stood Carthage long, […] / Yet stooped to Rome, less wealthy, but more strong.

Theſe, theſe are Arts, my Prince, / In which your Zama does not ſtoop to Rome.

Where men of great wealth do stoop to husbandry, it multiplieth riches exceedingly.

Nearly all the houses were built with their gables to the streets and each had heavy wooden Dutch stoops, with seats, at its door.

...the entrance being at the side of the house and reached by a low front stoop with four or five risers...

The guard at the door coughed up blood, and died instantly. Fina was carrying an empty rifle with a sharpened bayonet, and she'd thrust it straight up through his neck, severing the spinal cord. She levered him off the front stoop and into the bushes, then stood up on the tips of her toes to peer through the window in the door.

A short flight of iron steps leads up to it and a storm door is built over the stoop, forming a little vestibule, and serving to keep out the gusts.

You better hurry up and get strong, if you going to carry me across the stoop.

Holding her breath while she set one foot over the stoop and followed it up into the house

She grins at me and lifts her walker over the stoop.

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