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Sentence Examples A weathered tree stump serves as an occasional table, river rocks adorn tabletops, and branches are used as sculpture. Does any other team have opening bats who spend more of their time swishing at flies outside the off stump? The sign of a great ride is when you peel yourself off a mud splattered stump after a 30 mph endo and come up smiling. I thought it was a difficult wicket but it was slightly easier for the left-handers as the soft spots were outside the right-handers off stump. The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth and the smoke encircled his head like a wreath. No hitter has ever cut so well, and his footwork enabled him to cut balls even on his leg stump, or pull them to leg from outside his off stump. There is plenty of time for our patented 10-point-plan yawner of a stump speech as we move into the next election cycle. Lewry kept pitching the ball on middle stump, yorking Mark Ealham and Swann. Helicopter bounces forward and keels over on to one side at a 45 degree angle as it comes to rest on a tree stump. Some good bowling, attacking his leg stump, kept him cramped him up at first. To restrict Bradman, the English captain Douglas Jardine instructed his bowlers to direct their attack short on or outside the leg stump. In India itself he used Ashley Giles to bowl at or just outside the leg stump when Sachin Tendulkar was batting. Gayle floated one outside the off stump and Afridi couldn't resist having a dip. A few days later, so the story goes, a large growth resembling the stump of an animal's horn sprang from the guilty man's forehead. Last summer our glorious 25 ft-high golden robinia had to be cut down to a foot-high stump and the garden looked very bare without it. You can also drill several holes in the trunk, near the root ball, and inject stump killer into the holes with a baster. Just as the rounded curve of the lake, and the lodge came into view, they saw two shadows huddled together on a stump. On the political stump, the example of the buckskinned Whig congressman and Tennessee rifleman Davy Crockett was widely imitated. If they miss, the man backing up collects and has a shy at the next stump along the line. Car owners will moan, but such is the attachment to our vehicles we will probably stump up the extra amount. Show More Sentences Linda watched Karen as she sat her new doll carefully on a tree stump and placed tiny china plates, cups and saucers before it. And old man with more beard than face spat a trail of baccy across the stump of a felled tree. But as the terebinth and oak leave stumps when they are cut down, so the holy seed will be the stump in the land. They climbed on to a tree stump and squeezed through barbed wire to get over a concrete fence next to their hideout. However, unless you stump up the balloon payment at the end of the agreement, you never own the car. Leaves of the drumstick plant and the core stump of the banana plant, which are available locally, are a rich source of nutrients and fibres. Can the second banana deliver a rousing partisan stump speech guaranteed to excite the party faithful? It swam round the boat until its master, leaning over the bow, caught the animal by its short stump of a tail. He barked his shin on a hidden stump and swore softly but continued on toward the scrap. At nights, he was forced to sleep on a thin mattress against the stump of a tree. The result was an exact plaster mould of my stump, which Ian will use to make the socket onto which my artificial leg will be attached. All you want to do now, apart from sip wanly at the dregs of that satisfying Shiraz, is stump upstairs and crash into a nicely turned down bed. He tried to pull a short ball from Sami from outside off stump, top-edged it, and was caught by the bowler running towards midwicket. A stump grinder was on hand, and two high-powered vacuums sucked up leaves. The trees were tall and towering though there was a stump in the middle where a tree had been felled. I found myself at an event with no working Wi-Fi and the kind of mobile reception you'd expect to get beyond the black stump. Soil microbiology may lie beyond the black stump separating chemistry from its cousin biology. Your average sheila and bloke, be it in Sydney or beyond the black stump, doesn't have a lot of time for earbashers. Historians have had little to say about the lands that stretch beyond the black stump. If it was a little further west it could fairly be described as being beyond the black stump. Show More Sentences Maybe it's all right that he is as beyond the black stump when it comes to common sense. He dabbed at a ball outside the off stump and Boucher picked up a regulation catch. The bare stump of a tree, obviously cut down to aid the rescue work, pointed accusingly at the sky. Come on Walter, now we've had to stump up the ackers, lets get our moneys worth out of Thomas and let him prove he is one of Europes finest. The light source was a microscope halogen lamp, which unilaterally illuminated the protruding stump. From now, there's a mad dash to election day, and the candidates are just going to do their stump speeches. An inquest heard his glasses had probably misted up, causing him to veer into a tree stump. But its not socially acceptable to even discuss whether those views originate from the almighty or a drunken guy whizzing on a tree stump. This tether prevents the nerve from retracting too far into the stump and keeps it near the center of the developing blastema. Shifting to the pavilion end, reverting to over the wicket, he speared one on middle stump and managed to break it just enough. The sweater vest was the same, as was most of the God-and-country stump speech. It shows a charred stump of a tree with the ground around it burnt. He was very brief and general about his plans, reiterating the standard five points from his stump speech. Playing a ball pitched on the off stump to the on side was satisfying. Minutes later, he pitched one slightly short of a length on off stump. Before the umbilical cord stump drops off, you can just top and tail your baby, using a bowl of warm water, baby lotion and a soft cloth or cotton wool. I was surprised to find that my snorkel had melted almost down to the mouthpiece, leaving a stump that would have allowed me to dive in two centimetres of water. The artificial limb, in a white sock and brown flat shoe, was bound in a heavy material like canvas and ended in an ugly jointure where it was attached to the stump. Large numbers of consumers and small businesses swap software, and they're not about to stump up the readies to convert their current unlicensed software to full product. They are model citizens, the kind of people whose lives might be used as exemplary stories by a politician in a stump speech. Show More Sentences I've been in Australia beyond the black stump for a month now. The light source was a microscope halogen lamp, which unilaterally illuminated the protruding stump, via a light guide at a site 2-4 cm from the lower cut end. Neonatal umbilical infection, or omphalitis, is characterized by redness, induration, and purulent or malodorous drainage from the umbilical stump. We want to head out way beyond the black stump and see the National Park. Extraction of the tree stump is achieved with this known uprooter by manual rotation of the screw threaded spindle which requires great expenditure of force. The land beyond the black stump lay two hundred miles to the west. She took to the road to stump for her son John in 2008, and she quickly became one of the fixtures of the presidential campaign. Two feet from the sawed-off stump of a third willow is the small foot-pump carousel Ray was sitting on when he shot himself. When Schwartz finally arrived, she gave a version of her sunny stump speech. One year, each competitor had to tote around not only a tree stump but also a bicycle frame for hours. Palin went to Georgia to stump for Karen Handel, but Handel finished a distant third in the Senate primary. And none of that really mattered anyway, because he was just forgettable at debates and on the stump. Romney appeared to try to take some of the sharper edges off his stump speech Wednesday. Quarry is eaten on the ground or on a stump, the hawk standing with both feet on its victim, drooping wings to form a tent and spreading its tail as if to give support. He pitched one just outside the leg stump and I confidently let it go. He moved forward to become the top scorer in the innings with 71 when he played a somewhat loose shot outside the off stump to edge Alex to the wicket-keeper. In Parr's days most of the lbw errors must have been mutteringly referred to as a fifty-fifty one as there was no stump vision to highlight just how bad the decision had been. Meanwhile, Cain takes great delight blackmailing Robert and gets the little toerag to stump up some much-needed dosh for the farm. The harsh desert wind and sand had chewed the stump into ragged strips of wood. Dad had placed a cob of corn on a stump for the jays, who bickered over it non-stop. Show More Sentences As a result of Lumpy's protests, the middle stump was introduced, although it was some years before its use became universal. These were the overall dimensions and the requirement for a third stump was unspecified, indicating that its use was still not universal. The stumps are placed along the batting crease with equal distances between each stump. Always an eloquent speaker, Polk became known as the Napoleon of the stump. Sycamores make new growth from the stump or roots if cut down and can therefore be coppiced to produce poles and other types of small timber. Nash pinioned his arms behind while Boland seized a long cabbage stump which was lying in the gutter. But it is Mr. Romney who has most thoroughly incorporated such sunbeamy phrases and anecdotes into his repertory on the stump. Fog turned ev'ry tree stump into a huddled Kona sentry, but still I was thanksome to Sonmi for the camo. Just today I gave his history class a few questions to answer and hand in, but when it came time to answering the last two he was up the stump. Science is up the stump. She can't find out why green sorghum should be so quickly fatal to cattle, says an exchange. The old maple stump shot sickly pink switches from her roots, new switches every year. They crept yearningly toward the little square of window. How the wounded stump regrows into a leg is poorly understood, but now researchers have identified a key protein behind this regenerative power. A few feet from where we sit is the sawed-off stump of a third willow. On the other hand, Roma coach Rudi Garcia revealed that Manchester United must stump up E100 million to sign Kevin Strootman. The Golcar venue is hosting a display of goldwork, blackwork, cross-stitch, stump work, needle lace and patchwork. Now members who stump up club fees of pounds 1,100 a year are so browned off they are thinking of quitting. A CHAINSAW artist turned a plain tree stump into a jaw-dropping piece of art featuring Sulawesi macaques monkeys. Republicans and Democrats love bashing lobbyists on the stump. Since the goal is to educate and not merely stump readers, you should find the multipart question challenging, but not impossible. The groom's cake was a chocolate tree stump with butterflies and a heart and arrow around the couple's initials. Show More Sentences Mechanized single-grip harvesters fell, limb, and buck the trees at the stump and pile the logs at trailside. Rubio's problem is that he seems unable to say very much that is not in his stump speech. Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda canceled his stump speech in Tokyo and returned to his office to deal with the temblor. Convincing City to stump up pounds 60,000-a-week while he plays for Spurs will not be easy. A Treat the stump with root-out, based on ammonium sulphamate which will eventually kill it. Mathews was soon sent on his way for 63 as Philander's short-pitched ball kept almost unplayably low and struck him in front of off stump. It worked as Harmison removed Kallis in his second over when a swinging full toss clipped the base of his off stump. The muscular Cairns struck five fours in a 72-ball 43 before aiming to hit Scott out of sight and was bowled off stump. He wiped out Gary Ballance's off stump then dismissed in-form Joe Root for one run as the English top order collapsed. The large ossicle encompassed the entire width of the proximal stump of the ruptured peroneus longus tendon. As I cross the mouth of another cove, a great blue heron glides in to roost on a nearby stump. A quick glance at the BCCI's hawk-eye and it was hitting middle stump halfway up. Influence of cutting methods and dates on stump sprouting in Holm oak coppice. It is particularly important to note abundant spillage of indigo carmine solution when the proximal tubal stump is opened. The politician had a bagful of humorous anecdotes she could interject into any spur of the moment stump speech. The president used the address as a stump speech for his re-election, and he hit a populist tone on the theme of income inequality and unfair tax policy. Few overs after this incident, one of the Broads reverse swing dislodged well settled Asad Shafiqs off stump, dipping inside from more than a foot offside the off stump. The issue with these funding settlements would not have changed even had the Government managed to stump up 10 times this piddling PS143,000 increase. The action was commenced by emulous skirmishers, who crawled from the woodsides, and annoyed each other from coverts of ridge, stump, and stone heap. You're up the stump, Edith Fulton. You're going to have a baby. Show More Sentences When re-entering of the endoneural sheath by the distal stump occurred with time, the hyperaesthesia sensation might be restarted but gradually reduced to a lower level. Whereas your ordinary middle-ranking persons, they never had the least notion of what it was, so naturally they were up a stump every time they come across it, you see. I stump down my field, not the lane past Mike's, and the ewes think it's feeding time. I let them bombard me, grateful for the noisy bleating of their cupboard love. In fact, Darwin was unable to decide on a suitable present, telling his roommate that he was up a stump about what to get for his sister and new brother-in-law. After all, a pill bug normally spends the sunlit hours when diurnal birds are about coiled away like a petite armadillo, often beneath some unpeckable tree stump or stone. Coppicing is a traditional method of woodland management which exploits the capacity of many species of trees to put out new shoots from their stump or roots if cut down. Large boles emerge from a common stump in such overgrown coppice stools. Old Harry's Wife was another stack which was eroded through corrosion and abrasion, until the bottom was so weak the top fell away, leaving a stump. Old Harry Rocks are three chalk formations, including a stack and a stump, located at Handfast Point, on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, southern England. On the stump, notably at his Limehouse speech in 1909, he denounced the Conservatives and the wealthy classes with all his very considerable oratorical power. The pitch offered bounce and swing from the start, while Matthew Hoggard got a ball on line to swing between Matthew Hayden's bat and pad and into his off stump. Later it became increasingly common for surgeons to perform a resection of the tumour, oversewing the rectal stump, and fashioning an end colostomy as the initial operation. Masood drove uppishly to be caught in the slips while Ali misjudged a sharp incoming delivery which hit the off stump as he tried to leave the ball. If a pedicle is damaged during antler development, antler tines may grow around the base of the pedicle, similar to the sprouts around the base of a freshly cut tree stump. His hopes of more runs evaporated when he was drawn out by Bishoo, pushing at a delivery tossed up at off stump and feeding Jermaine Blackwood at second slip. He bowled Vinay with a with a full, straight ball that castled off stump and then dished up a yorker that RP Singh backed away to and sent onto his stumps. Examples from Classical Literature The tough job being ended and the Mounds laid low, the hour is come for Boffin to stump up. These facts show that caution is necessary in accepting reports of cancer of the uterine stump after subtotal hysterectomy. A swamp maple grows at this stump as a back for my seat in this reception room of the jewel-weeds. I know of one beautiful stump on which the buyer wanted permission to remove part of its bark to see if it had nubby growth. So they went together to the orchard-fence unseen by old chuckie on his stump. The stump had rotted so that one could kick it to pieces with the heel of a boot. One didn't talk about acting a lie to the bowler because one played at the ball as though it were outside the leg stump. At last a roar went up, as Hitch knocked the leg stump flying out of the ground. It is always understood that the leg stump is the hardest to defend, and consequently the best to attack. The flesh above the jaws as well as below will swell making it impossible for the animal to pull the leg stump out of the trap. I ran at him, tripped on a stump, let out a yell, and he LEP' straight at my throat. The temper of the stump speaker is not appropriate for dealing with taxation problems. It will also be well to make a chamois block for applying the crayon sauce, to be worked with the tortillon stump. As a matter of fact, it was no foot at all he was dabbling, but only a maimed stump. Lancaster placed his field, bowled a lightning ball, and splintered an old Oxonian's middle stump. Another player came out, but at the fourth ball of the over his middle stump was levelled. The next ball came straight for the middle stump, but was blocked back half-way between the creases, and another run was stolen. And then that thick-set, muscular beast, for so Fluff regarded him, stared fixedly at Fluff's middle stump. In 1775 they wisely introduced a middle stump, as they found the best balls harmlessly flying between the wide wickets. Bray had just lifted a length ball off the middle stump over short-leg's head. Show More Sentences And he lifted the shrivelled stump of that finger to his lips and kissed it. I seen he was gettin orful xcited, then he snatched up his hat and segar stump, and run like he was chased by litenin. His unshaved countenance wears a sleepy expression, but the stump of a lighted cigar is already in his mouth. On the stump he does not address the imagination as does the Hibernian spellbinder. The native bear resided in a packing case, nailed on the top of a stump nearly opposite the hut door. On its stump there was erected in 1897 a New Latin cross to commemorate the jubilee of Queen Victoria. The worst tooth stump can be extracted painlessly after local injection of Novocain, with no danger to the fetus. On examination after death, the termination of the vein on the surface of the stump was open, and in a sloughy condition. Big Abel's answer was to draw a hoecake wrapped in an old newspaper from his pocket and place it on a short pine stump. He was perking up his big ears and wagging his stump of a tail in front of him. It drapes many an unsightly stump, or clambers up into shrubs, embowering them with its pretty foliage. The hilt and stump of sword clattered in the fireplace, whither she hurled it. The stump of her bowsprit, the accusatory finger of the dead, pointed at the sky. A swarthy fellow, with the face of a charcoal burner, sat on a stump, and Tom wondered that he had not seen him as he approached. Then she wagged the stump of her tail, and they considered themselves acquainted. The animal may be relieved from suffering if the stump is smeared with pine tar and wrapped in cloth. Like his companion, this insect rose and encircled the stump several times, ere it darted away toward its hive, in an air-line. That would mean giving up the fat hen which he had hidden in the hollow stump. The tree was sacred to Faunus, but the men of Troy had cut it, and the stump only was left. That stump speech of hers given from a genuine stump had sent them actually reeling home. Show More Sentences The lecture reads very much like a stump speech of the extreme florid type. She set her fishnet bag on the stump she vacated and provided herself with a cudgel before starting to investigate. And now, Sam, just stump up out of this, and try and get Billy some breakfast. I will fling a hint at it from the stump on the polling day. Mr Pickering relit the stump of his cigar defiantly and smoked in long gulps for a while. You'd ha' been a rare chap on a stump, Britisher, that's a fact! To this Cherokee responded by vigorous wagging of the stump of his tail. Shimerda, sitting on the stump by the stove, kept looking over her shoulder toward the door while the neighbours were arriving. Why, he took and dipped his hand in a rotten stump where the rain-water was. So deep was it, that all he showed of himself was his hind-legs, his rump, and an intelligent and stiffly erect stump of a tail. Oh, if I could wear this tongue to the stump, in extolling His highness! Many a rod, I grieve to say, was worn to the stump on that unlucky night. I was too busy to hanker for a stump speech, so I cut across his bows. There's a bunch of shingles at least in every stump ye've left. He sat on a stump, staring with sightless eyes into vacancy. Each stick was carefully mortised or tenoned by its stump, for I had borrowed other tools by this time. Leaving such a stump endangers the soundness of the whole tree. A broken mast 17 stump was imbedded upright in the sand at one spot. A right Video Assisted Thoracoscopy was performed to examine the thoracic cavity and the bronchial stump. He looked at the stump, then at the sign, with his little pig-like eyes. Show More Sentences Mr. Halloway had learned a certain perceptiveness on the stump. When the auctioneer had finished Abe made his first stump speech. Andrew Jackson was once making a stump speech out West in a small village. If you can stump up some cash, I'll get him to run an errand for us. The old man was sitting on a stump behind the stove, crouching over as if he were trying to hide from us. Hardly had the audience grasped this important fact when a long waterproof serpent was seen uncoiling itself from behind a stump. For reply, the old man half-turned, and, on his crutch, swinging his stump of leg in the air, began sidling hippity-hop into the grass hut. An unhewn stump of wood was the Dionysus idol of the rustic people. It was a crumbling stump atop a rusty hill, unhuman and grotesque. Anderson struck with the first ball of his second over, Brathwaite overbalancing as it hooped through the air and clattered leg stump. I found a pretty cluster at the foot of a maple stump in poke Hollow. He cannot stroll around a stump and find his way home again. The tender shoots and the expanding flowers are nipped and withered, and of a vine that yearned to stretch its tendrils round the world there is left but a sapless stump. Two murders in nearby towns in the English Fen area stump the local police, and the call to Scotland Yard is made, bringing Ian Rutledge into the investigation. Then Kaa would give way limply, and Mowgli, with both quick-moving feet, would try to cramp the purchase of that huge tail as it flung backward feeling for a rock or a stump. The house palpitated to an infamous melody punctuated by the stump of the barrel-organ's one leg, as Giuseppe, above, moved from room to room after his rebel slave. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of stump? Words that rhyme with stump What is the past tense of stump? What is the plural of stump? What is the adverb for stump? What is the adjective for stump? What is the noun for stump? Translations for stump Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words stumblingly stumbling block stumbling stumble upon stumbles stumblers Stump stumpage stumped stumper stumpers stumpily 5-letter Words Starting With s st stu stum