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Stoops in sentence

13 examples of Stoops in a sentence

One day in New York, I was on the street and I saw some kids playing baseball between stoops and cars and fire hydrants.
There was all this merengue blasting, neighbors socializing on building stoops and animated conversations over domino playing.
They were stoops to even appear, much less be "technical advisers" in a stink-bomb of a movie like this.
Which is rather odd as Lilia stoops to jiggle around for them, not for money, but just for the hell of it.
Kevin, at a loss for a subject for his film class project, stoops so low as to bribe his best friend Eugene to grant him an all access pass into his staggeringly pathetic professional and personal life.
Jim Carrey stoops to new highs in low comedy: Actually he bends over, flaps his cheeks and introduces the world to butt ventriloquism in "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective."
If such a man as he, at a time, too, when misfortune ought to recall him sternly to a sense of duty, stoops to charlatanism, what is one to expect of the rest of the species?
And we sit there, by its margin, while the moon, who loves it too, stoops down to kiss it with a sister's kiss, and throws her silver arms around it clingingly; and we watch it as it flows, ever singing, ever whispering, out to meet its king, the sea - till our voices die away in silence, and the pipes go out - till we, common-place, everyday young men enough, feel strangely full of thoughts, half sad, half sweet, and do not care or want to speak - till we laugh, and, rising, knock the ashes from our burnt-out pipes, and say "Good-night," and, lulled by the lapping water and the rustling trees, we fall asleep beneath the great, still stars, and dream that the world is young again - young and sweet as she used to be ere the centuries of fret and care had furrowed her fair face, ere her children's sins and follies had made old her loving heart - sweet as she was in those bygone days when, a new-made mother, she nursed us, her children, upon her own deep breast - ere the wiles of painted civilization had lured us away from her fond arms, and the poisoned sneers of artificiality had made us ashamed of the simple life we led with her, and the simple, stately home where mankind was born so many thousands years ago.
The women and children have resumed their labour; the reaper once more stoops to his work; the cart-horses have moved on; and all are again in motion.
"The Black Knight," answered Rebecca, faintly; then instantly again shouted with joyful eagerness--"But no--but no!--the name of the Lord of Hosts be blessed!--he is on foot again, and fights as if there were twenty men's strength in his single arm--His sword is broken--he snatches an axe from a yeoman--he presses Front-de-Boeuf with blow on blow--The giant stoops and totters like an oak under the steel of the woodman--he falls--he falls!""Front-de-Boeuf?" exclaimed Ivanhoe.
And oh, when stoops on Judah's pathIn shade and storm the frequent night,Be THOU, long-suffering, slow to wrath,A burning, and a shining light!
Ephraim is an heartless dove--Issachar an over-laboured drudge, which stoops between two burdens.
I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking,--a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold, with a steely point of agony: a pleasure like what the thirst-perishing man might feel who knows the well to which he has crept is poisoned, yet stoops and drinks divine draughts nevertheless.