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Sentence Examples
At its base a short squirm and section of stooping passage brings one to the first of the major features of the cave, the Canal.
During the Brixton riots inquiry in 1981 his tall, stooping figure appeared regularly on television.
The man had turned his head on hearing his name, and stood up, stooping under each ceiling beam as he came towards them.
Backbreaking work, all that stooping but I had been warned, even discouraged from going.
Our reference is a cheap and nasty shot, as pointed out by a reader who, without stooping to cheapness and nastiness, can't even spell his name.
I did put out a quiver-tip, which rocked back and forth like a blade of grass bowing and stooping before the wind.
And as the boy was stooping over the open chest, crash went the lid down.
His 30th international goal was a header from a corner early on, before stooping to add a second, also with his head, just after the half hour.
I have had not any pain at all as a result of stooping and it certainly did not get in the way of work or social life.
The work requires physical effort with lifting, bending, and stooping and the environment may be dusty and noisy.
Though she was very active and walked daily, she had begun to notice herself stooping, which caused a slight loss of height.
He saw that I was in earnest,and stooping, took my hand, and raising it to his lips, kissed it.
The work involves sitting, standing and walking, bending, stooping, kneeling, lifting and crouching.
Other resonant images are created by mobile scenic contraptions that represent a row of field hands stooping to pick crops and a towering factory loom.
Two passengers rose, a brown, freckled Cornishwoman, balancing herself along the gangway with a basket of eggs, a gaunt old man in threadbare tweeds stooping after her.
He had always prided himself on never stooping to such slang.
Chris was stooping and bobbing at Susan, smiling lopsidedly, self-deprecatory.
So there they are, stooping and stretching, with the jockeys' silks forming and re-forming magical patches of color.
Then we branch off into a small passage to begin our mixture of scrambling, climbing, stooping, crawling and swearing through the Mendip limestone.
An amateur spelunker, stooping to pocket a souvenir stone, began to reconsider the notion of a working subway tunnel east of Lexington Avenue as something other than a punch line about endless futility.
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For children, that means stooping to their level.
Hello girls, he would say, stooping to pat us on the head.
We got to the wounded by crawling or running in a stooping position and when the fire became too hot flattened out on the ground like limpets on a rock.
It may even consist in doing something that the janitor should do, something that demands stretching, cramping, stooping and hammering that exercises muscles.
In one instance, when a snowy owl killed a newly fledged peregrine, the larger owl was in turn killed by a stooping peregrine parent.
They may be required to lift heavy objects and work in a variety of awkward positions, while bending, stooping, or standing to perform work overhead.
Considerable walking, standing with occasional bending and stooping.
Her granddaughter remembers her as a frail, stooping, ghost-like figure flitting about the house, obsessively neat, endlessly crocheting doilies and antimacassars.
Small, stooping, and shabby, like an insulted and injured Dostoyevskian hero, he crept around in a furtive fashion with his hat covering his face and his eyes wet with tears.
The Dressmaker 118mins 12A EVEN the best actors make bad decisions, but seeing Kate Winslet stooping to star in a screwball comedy this duff truly takes your breath away.
A pars fracture, also known as spondylolysis, is usually isolated to one side of the lower back and symptoms arise during activities such as twisting, bending or stooping.
The father scorned stooping. Neither his body nor his mind was bendable.
Examples from Classical Literature
Owen followed him within the hut, and stooping down to the fire, lighted a piece of bogwood to enable him to see.
Was this great politician stooping to act a part, or had he forgotten our physiognomies as completely as appeared?
And he pointed to the grisette, who was now stooping down by the side of the workgirl.
Blinky snorted and stamped over to the window, stooping to peer at the machine.
That evening Monsieur Rquine was stooping over a dwarf-apple tree, string in one hand, pruning shears in the other.
As he raised his head from stooping to do so, he found the landlady beside him.
This might be only my fancy, or the natural effect of her stooping to gather a flower.
It is distinguished from nephritis, or inflammation of the kidneys, by the pain being aggravated on stooping.
There was already a look of slovenly age about his stooping bookworm's gait.
Philothea was stooping to unlace her sandal, and she immediately picked it up.
Hubertine did not reply, but, stooping, lifted her in her strong arms.
Then he laughed uncomfortably, stooping to pick it up again.
Certainly,' said the Time Traveller, stooping to light a spill at the fire.
He gibbered his own rage and hurt, and, stooping, dealt Jerry a tremendous blow alongside the head and neck.
In the gleam the black figure of Andrea was visible stooping to the water.
Some final wooden steps conducted them, stooping under a low penthouse roof, to the house-top.
The Chief Inspector, stooping guardedly over the table, fought down the unpleasant sensation in his throat.
It was not long before the doctor came stooping in to my pup tent.
Stealthily she rose to a stooping position at the boat's side.
Jorgensen again found himself with a chance two minutes after the break, but his stooping header didn't trouble Brighton keeper Scott Flinders.
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Ellen, stooping behind the elderberry bushes, held her breath.
The tensed body relaxed, and the black, stooping over the corpse, helped carry it out.
So, stooping to adjust them, out tumbled my spleuchan, it appears.
He turned her over upon her back, and stooping commenced to sniff and listen about her face and breast.
He had round, stooping shoulders, and long, spindling limbs.
The youth was close upon the midnight strangler, stooping low.
And it is like a woman stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern.
You know the stooping Victory in the frieze of the Nike Apteros?
Conan, stooping above the body of the agha, made no move to escape.
Mrs. Bines, stooping, took the limp and wide-eyed Paul up in her arms.
Charley was a few yards ahead of me, and ran stooping into the cavern.
The old gentleman softly stroked the hair off her forehead, and, stooping down, he kissed herr, saying, in a tone few people ever heard.
She was stooping forward playing with Robert's Dandie Dinmont.
Naseby appeared, with stooping shoulders and a heavy, bilious countenance, languidly rising to the trot.
Yet when he turned the corner she was standing with her back towards him, and stooping to gather the low-hanging fruit.
Mrs. Ritson had been stooping over the griddle when Reuben entered.
Solomon Rout, from finding himself almost invariably the tallest man on board every ship he joined, had acquired the habit of a stooping, leisurely condescension.
And just as I was stooping and laying down the stakes, I saw something odd and round and whitish lying on the ground under a nut-bush by the side of me.
By regarding her tears and her smiles as enemies, her stooping form, her hanging arms, and all her disentangled hair as toils designed to entrap man's heart.
At one end a ruminating tar was still further adorning it with his jack-knife, stooping over and diligently working away at the space between his legs.
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I have been waiting eagerly for this invitation and I follow Captain Hodgson from the control-platform, stooping low to avoid the bulge of the tanks.
So he went in through the window, and, stooping over the man and the woman, cut their thongs, pulling out the gags, and looked round the hut for some milk.
