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stump - use in sentences
Converse of object
- rot: The removal of a rotting tree stump may also allow for excavation within the ' shrine ' building.
- decay: Often the nest is built over a decaying tree stump which, along with other decaying organic matter, provides heat.
- hit: These Aussies can't even hit the stumps from 80 yards!
- miss: It takes you off track into a narrow taped chicane around fir trees, trying to miss stumps on the off side.
- remove: Hold the screw head in a vise, and knock the spade with a mallet or club hammer to remove the stump.
Adjective modifier
- shattered: Crops grow in the fields and tall trees in woods have replaced the shattered stumps of eighty years ago.
- rotten: Malcolm pointed to some rotten stumps with holes in, " a good example of Weka work " he muttered.
- middle: Judging from his expression, I had flattened his middle stump.
- broken: The helicopter then crashed, ending up with the broken stump of pole lying across the tail boom.
- off: Bowling slightly fuller than usual on or around off stump is the best tactic.
- mere: Both would be left as mere stumps in a wasteland.
Modifies a noun
- grinder: The stump has been ground down to around 6 " below lawn level with a stump grinder.
- removal: Tree stump removal on Palewell Park delayed due to access problems.
Noun used with modifier
- tree: A simple tree stump or large log turned on its end will normally suffice.
- leg: Leg stump - the stump on the leg side.
- cricket: Answer: 1988 3 ) What is the official height of cricket stumps?
- pine: There may be a few pine stumps among the Field Maple.
Particle object: up_obj
- cash: Too well, in fact, cos I keep having to somehow stump up the cash to get more done!
Preposition: of
- candle: On one corner of this was stuck the stump of a red wax candle.
Preposition: up
- cash: But the real issue for small firms is whether the EU is prepared to stump up cash for having caused such chaos.
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