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stoop - use in sentences
Object
- posture: Thus in a stooping posture he has to use his heavy tools which must be very hard work.
- header: However, Burnley struck back in the 22nd minute through Gareth Taylor's stooping header.
- passage: Some 200m from the entrance the stooping passage breaks out into a larger area with holes in the roof.
- shoulder: General Grant, then nearly forty-three years of age, was five feet eight inches in height, with shoulders slightly stooped.
- figure: Pretty old, he guessed, by her small, stooped figure.
- position: His body was found ' in from five to six feet of water, standing in a stooping position ' .
Adjective modifier
- slight: His tall, slender figure had a slight stoop yet it looked the reverse of feeble.
- holy: Or the font could be moved to the entrance of the Church between the two holy water stoops.
Adjective complement
- low: He regards with the greatest contempt a man that could stoop low enough to perform " a mean action.
Modifying Another Word
- slightly: General Grant, then nearly forty-three years of age, was five feet eight inches in height, with shoulders slightly stooped.
- down: The rush of the Sea behind me seemed to grow louder as I stooped down to pick up my beloved child.
- never: I would never stoop to bow down to a god of stone or an idol of wood or jewels!
- forward: Because I stoop forward, quite badly at times, nothing ever hangs right.
- even: And so transcendent that he must stoop even to see the heavens!
Followed by an intransitive particle
- down: She and Chips stoop down and go into the cave.
- over: We guess Shaums means thanks to Marin for all their help, or stooping over.
Infinitive complement
- conquer: This lack of eye contact later enables Kate to begin the process of " stooping to conquer.
- pick: No more stooping to pick up horrible, slobbery ten £ 9.99 More details Reel Dog Hours of fishing fun with a canine twist!
- head: Two minutes later Peter Band had his hat-trick, this time stooping to head home a Matty Taylor cross.
Noun used with modifier
- drug: Yes - it's... Just how low will the drug companies stoop?
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