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Stump in sentence

56 examples of Stump in a sentence

The stump or cast prosthesis was made, and he was starting the real physical rehabilitation.
So I had to wield my paralyzed arm like a stump and cover the numbers as I went along and pushed them, so that as I would come back to normal reality, I'd be able to tell, "Yes, I've already dialed that number."
My third graders had to research and write a stump speech for their chosen candidate: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton or John McCain.
The soul of a fallen native being brought to life in a tree stump with a scowl on its face.
And if he did stump up any money for it - all of £50 judging by the looks - he should have been banging on the director's door for a refund the minute the film was released.
When he sends down a stump, the frogs ask for another king, saying the stump is but "political timber."
Lead child actor Ryan Latshaw projects all the charm and acting ability of a moldy old tree stump.
Jupiter responds first by sending a tree stump and then a stork.
It also seemed to stump the devil as well.
Frankly if someone can be pursuaded to stump up money for this sorry mess of a film then surely you can do better.
There is about as much entertainment value in Sleuth as there is in watching a tree stump rot, and that may even be an overstatement, because at least doing that you can use your own imagination.
I love the scene where Ash loses his hand and he attached a chainsaw to the stump.
an elderly musician,minus one hand, who still manages to play violin by tying the bow to the stump of his missing hand.
He goes on the stump in election campaigns and restricted himself to only two presidential terms.
If there ever were need for yet another clinching argument for a presidential system in India, it is the spectacle of the head of government abandoning the responsibilities of that office every few months to go on the stump for their party.
Until a few decades ago, democratic leaders had to climb the electoral ladder, rung by rung, acquiring along the way a facility for retail politics, stump speaking, and the demands of assembling a working majority.
What candidates promise on the stump is not always what they do in office.
They can solve complex puzzles that stump most two-year-old humans.
That is a quiz question likely to stump the most devoted aficionado of global politics.
'Bear to the right, sir, there's a stump there,' said the coachman, taking hold of the rein.
There were also Father Bonnemort and old Mouque, seated side by side on a stump, lost in deep meditation.
In order to put it down he described painfully a quarter of a circle with his stump.
Take a turn round that stump with the bight of it!
You're_ up a stump, ain't you!"
Now you tell me how Bob Tanner done it, Huck.""Why, he took and dipped his hand in a rotten stump where the rain-water was.""In the daytime?""Certainly."
"With his face to the stump?""Yes.
You got to go all by yourself, to the middle of the woods, where you know there's a spunk-water stump, and just as it's midnight you back up against the stump and jam your hand in and say:'Barley-corn, barley-corn, injun-meal shorts, Spunk-water, spunk-water, swaller these warts,'and then walk away quick, eleven steps, with your eyes shut, and then turn around three times and walk home without speaking to anybody.
Every stump that started up in their path seemed a man and an enemy, and made them catch their breath; and as they sped by some outlying cottages that lay near the village, the barking of the aroused watch-dogs seemed to give wings to their feet.
The captive had broken off the stalagmite, and upon the stump had placed a stone, wherein he had scooped a shallow hollow to catch the precious drop that fell once in every three minutes with the dreary regularity of a clock-tick--a dessertspoonful once in four and twenty hours.
Our man broke his sword short off, and took the other's blade through his left arm; but he was the stronger man, and he managed to let the life out of his enemy with the jagged stump of his blade.
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