How To Use stanch In A Sentence
- Summary: Although staunch is the most common spelling of the adjective meaning “firm” and stanch is the most common spelling of the verb meaning “stop (the flow)”, both spellings are acceptable for both meanings. Stanching staunch prescriptivism « Motivated Grammar
- She fell to her knees and tried to stanch it with her hands, but the blood poured through her fingers. DOLL'S EYES
- He is a stanch supporter of the Democratic Party.
- That went on forever, me telling him to hang on, trying to stanch the blood. AFTERMATH
- They acted as an anchorage for the stanchions which, standing on the seabed, supported the harbours.
- For the first time in 80 years, three of the four processions for the end of Holy Week, Semana Santa, were cancelled, thanks to mad billows blowing over every banner and stanchion and cordon, rain guttering from every rooftop, children's fingers growing waxy. Wind and heavy rain greet Britons who headed for Spanish sun at Easter
- They mustered eighteen in all, and in half an hour they were ironed in a row along the stanchioned rail of the torpedo-boat. The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility
- With a light snow falling, he had driven on perhaps a hundred yards before his car hit a stanchion at slow speed and came to rest.
- Four people died in the GNER buffet car when it cannoned into an overhead line stanchion.
- The injury was small, the bleeding quickly stanched. Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
