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"Stopper" in a Sentence (18 examples)
This stopper does not fit the bottle.
Bringing up politics can be a conversation stopper.
That off color sentence was real conversation stopper.
My apartment has a very convenient bathroom. You just press a button and wait until a sound effect announces that there's enough water in the tub. Today, however, a different sound than usual played. When I entered the bathroom, I was met with an empty bathtub. I must've pressed the button without plugging the tub drain first. The electronic system apparently noticed that I hadn't put the stopper in the drain and, not wanting to waste water, notified me about my carelessness.
An aggregate of this bark compressed into a stopper shape is forced into the anus as a treatment for piles.
Where's the stopper?
“It just shows you what women are like. A frightful sex, Bertie. There ought to be a law. I hope to live to see the day when women are no longer allowed.” “That would rather put a stopper on keeping the human race going, wouldn't it?” “Well, who wants to keep the human race going?”
Often, in our conversations we encourage people to talk, or we manage to stop them. This can happen without our even thinking about it. Following is a list of conversation starters and stoppers.
Put a stopper in the knot.
We need a stopper or the boat will sink.
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He's the number one stopper in the country.
And just before the interval, Kolarov, who was having one of his better games in a City shirt, fizzed in a cracker from 30 yards which the Wolves stopper unconvincingly pushed behind for a corner.
Cattle futures: spillover momentum plus evidence of a strong stopper (i.e., 96 loads demanded) should kick the opening higher.
The local train was empty at midday. She changed at Yatton and caught a stopper into Bristol. There was an express calling at Exeter which left Bristol at twelve-forty-five and she caught it by the skin of her teeth.
Changing times at Barnham on December 8 2022. Southern 313211 is an all-stations stopper.
Red Stopper. Leaves ovate-oblong, contracted at the apex into long points, coriaceous. Eugenia Garber
He tightly stoppered the decanter, thinking the expensive liqueur had been evaporating.
The diaphragmatic spasm of his hiccup caused his epiglottis to painfully stopper his windpipe with a loud "hic".
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