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
According to the Sun-Times, Keane's friend likely saved her life by stanching the blood flow at the time of her injury. Man Arrested For Trying To Kill His Girlfriend... Again
Designed with spiral slide to stanch bleeding, can slightly adjust the compression pressure.
Yet the building seemed ancient and strong, a part of the roof was battlemented, and the walls were of great thickness; lastly, I observed, with some unpleasant sensations, that the windows of my chamber had been lately secured with iron stanchions, and that the servants who brought me victuals, or visited my apartment to render other menial offices, always locked the door when they retired. Redgauntlet
It was wildly dispiriting, yes, but as policy it was actually effective in stanching a financial meltdown - you only have to look to Europe where the clamoring for a similar program grows louder every day their current mess deepens. Benj Hewitt: A Liberal Defends Obama
She has done considerable damage to herself, my after bitts are sheered off level with the deck, my stern chocks are pulled out and about 10 feet of the rail, including two stanchions.
President Obama's steadiness rallied the nation at a time of severe economic crisis, saved Detroit, rescued a spiraling Wall Street, stanched the flow of blood in terms of the mortgage crisis and rising joblessness - while also achieving what no president since FDR has managed to do: bring health care reform that will finally stop penalizing tens of millions of the sick in the world's most prosperous economy - including our children! Nigel Hamilton: Rahm Is Going
Both the stanchion futtock and the top timber will be replaced.
On the left, a stanchioned flat-screen monitor shows the drummer pounding away in the grave. Familiarity Does Little to Excite
Fail to stanch the flow of illegal aliens across the Mexican-United States border. Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off
The bus was knocked onto its side after hitting a guard rail and a steel stanchion. Bus firm was cited for fatigued driving
That went on forever, me telling him to hang on, trying to stanch the blood. AFTERMATH
And the day it's well return'd again. trapan: injure treacherously, fey: marked by fate, boun: go, stancheon: iron bar, loup: leap, twin: part The Fire of Frendraught
Meanwhile, a Florida effort to stanch the illegal flow of prescription drugs from so-called "pill mills" increases penalties on doctors who overprescribe painkillers and sets new limits on how they can be dispensed. Voter ID Laws Lead Flurry of New Statutes
No sooner had the flow of liquor from Rum Row in the Northeast been stanched than it began to gush in unprecedented quantities through the sluiceway that was Detroit, where an overmatched prosecutor said, “The greatest obstacle to the attainment of Prohibition is the Constitution of the United States, the instrument that decreed its birth.” LAST CALL
Such a one stands in the centre, its legs fixed in the floor, with four chairs around it, similarly stanchioned. The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea
The stanchly duckbill ribbonwood been myelinic, but all the surgery of the pharmacologically bourgeoisie place were psychogenic from stogy. POWET.TV
She fell to her knees and tried to stanch it with her hands, but the blood poured through her fingers. DOLL'S EYES
The remains of the suicide vehicle was lying across a ditch near the stanchions of the flyover.
The overhead power lines caused problems because stanchions supporting them were too far apart and cheap materials had been used.
Most municipalities, York included, have regularly undertaken mosquito-control efforts to stanch the spread of the disease since it first appeared in humans in Canada in 2002, including monthly treatments of larvicide on local catch basins. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
But on a snowy night in the early 1980's, a car skidded into a stanchion, which hit him in the back.
Hands quickly reached for taffrails, stanchions, ratlines or some sort of support, and, a moment later, Raven spun the wheel with all her strength to the right until the helm was hard over.
And the compass stanchioned on the bridge had gone along with a wave, stanchions and all. Tramping on Life
Spam has become such a menace to the Internet that the Federal Trade Commission should take swift steps to stanch the flow of bulk e-mail, three consumer groups said Wednesday.
At the time of Henry VIII's breach with Rome the monks, especially those of the London charterhouse (founded 1370), offered a stanch resistance. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
He called his poem a "romaunt," and his valet, poor Fletcher, a "stanch yeomán," and peppered his stanzas thinly with _sooths_ and _wights_ and_ whiloms_, but he gave over this affectation in the later cantos and made no further excursions into the Middle Ages. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
When I got to the life-preserver, it was rusted to the stanchions on which it was hung.
Ultimately, Mr. Cain succeeded in stanching the bleeding and stabilizing the business, rather than jump-starting growth. Cain's Legacy: Selling Big Ideas
A youth crouches on a stanchion under York's new Millennium Bridge - some 15 feet above the bank and the swirling waters of the River Ouse.
The massive stanchions that had supported the crane gantry rails in the past now support the new steel-framed structures.
They are as stanch and resolved in their hatred of the domestic institution as when we abolished the accursed slave traffic; as when, at a vast sacrifice, both of money and of colonial prosperity, we struck the last fetter from the last English slave; as when the women of England, half a million strong, sent out a generous if not a wise remonstrance to the women of America. London: Saturday, January 17, 1863
The Earl, invigorated with hope and joy, had by the force of his arm, almost wrenched from its fastening, one of the iron bars of the grate; his foot was lifted to the stanchion, ready to aid him in escaping through the opening, when he was seized by the guards of the Baron, and conveyed precipitately from the prison. The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne: A Highland Story
He is a stanch supporter of the Democratic Party.
She reached for the aluminium stanchion and the leading piece of metal pipe. CHAMELEON
A hollow forged aluminum crown and 30 mm stanchions help keep grams off while still offering maximum rigidity.
They had been placed five to each sidewall of the plane and strapped to stanchions. SKORPION'S DEATH
Another prelate, also a stanch supporter of the king, was Wichmann, Archbishop of Magdeburg, more of a soldier than a bishop, and uncanonically promoted from the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
On Saturday, 15 people were killed and more than 20 injured when another coach, destined for Chinatown from Connecticut's Mohegan Sun Casino, overturned and slid into a highway sign stanchion in the Bronx. NYPD Cracks Down on Buses
He stanched the leak of the boat with a piece of cloth.
All of them say the same thing, that stanch is the more common verbal spelling and that staunch is the more common adjectival spelling, but that the two are interchangeable. 2009 April « Motivated Grammar
While that falls well short of the 1.1 million workers employed in the sector in 1999, it indicates the hemorrhaging has been stanched. Car Makers' U-Turn Steers Job Gains
Saturday and slid into a sign stanchion, which ripped through the window line, shearing off most of the roof. I-95 bus crash: Driver did time in '90 manslaughter
Mr. Chara hit Mr. Pacioretty into the boards, driving his head into a stanchion supporting the glass around the ice. Air Canada Threatens to Pull NHL Sponsorship Over Violence
She reached for the aluminium stanchion and the leading piece of metal pipe. CHAMELEON
Her leash was tied to a stanchion on the wall, preventing her from moving more than a few feet in any direction.
A stanchion is a restraining device that loosely clamps a goat's neck limiting its forward and backward motion while permitting some lateral motion. Chapter 3
This system enables the climbers to remain attached to the bridge at all times, without the need to unclip the safety rope each time it reaches a stanchion.
Two beautifully sculpted guards stood outside the doors of Christie's auction house yesterday, armed with stanchions and a counter, ready to receive the crowd that would be arriving at part two of the Yves Saint Laurent sale, featuring his furniture and home furnishings from his weekend home in Deauville situated in the Basse-Normandie region of France. Yomi Abiola: Yves Saint Laurent's Final Sale
His second, nine minutes later, was a rasping left foot drive from twenty five yards which hit the stanchion as the Castleton keeper stood mesmerised.
He stanched the leak of the boat with a piece of cloth.
If you get dairy goats, you'll probably want to build this nifty stanchion to make milking easy for both the milker and the milkee.
Many universities scaled back their distance education business plans to stanch the flow of red ink.
In shock, I tied my sock around the worst-cut foot to try and stanch the flow of blood.
The ballast, concrete cement, was stanchioned down securely. Sailing Alone Around the World
In addition, there are under the beams three rows of vertical stanchions between decks, and one row in the lower hold from the keelson. The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912
Love-lies-bleeding, prized for its rope-like, blood-red blossoms, has traditionally been used to stanch bleeding and treat internal hemorrhage.
The Pueblo resident says she couldn't understand why the bill was so steep—doctors just stanched the bleeding, she says. How to Fight a Bogus Bill
SINGAPORE—A rise in Japan's shares led most Asian stock markets higher Friday, as the Group of Seven industrialized nations agreed to a coordinated intervention to stanch the yen's recent surge, providing some relief as the nation grapples with last week's crippling earthquake and a continuing nuclear crisis. Asia Markets Higher; Tokyo Up 2.5%
After the initial incisions are made, robotic arms wielding a tiny camera and surgical tools make the snips, stanch the blood flow, and sew up inside when all is done.
The recipe calls for "1 medium cow, about 1,400 pounds, butterflied, skin removed" and "1 heavy block-and-tackle attached to a steel stanchion set in concrete. Wholly Cow! A Few Brave Grillers Go 'Nose-to-Tail'
The back of my left thigh hit the stanchion.
By the time police managed to get on board from their patrol inflatable, he had caused £21,467 damage to the cruiser and £200 damage to a mooring stanchion.
LONDON—British supermarket giant Tesco PLC largely stanched the sales decline in its home market with smarter food pricing in the first quarter, but lackluster nonfood sales were hampered by weak consumer spending in the U.K., which is unlikely to improve in the near future. Tesco Sales Crimped by Wary Consumers
In the process of powerfully meeting the lively Hakan Yakin's free-kick he butted Choi Jin-cheul's head and both players needed lengthy treatment to stanch the flow of blood.
Sophia stanched the blood with a cloth.
However, given their poor track record in maintaining, let alone growing, their market share, it seems unlikely that mainline Protestant congregations such as the UCC will stanch the flow of young people out of religion. American Grace
First, the hemorrhage of religious observance characteristic of the long Sixties was stanched and to some extent reversed, at least among better educated young people. American Grace
That went on forever, me telling him to hang on, trying to stanch the blood. AFTERMATH
Reginald drew the poor man -- now quite senseless -- into the canoe, and endeavoured to stanch the blood flowing from his wounds by tourniquets, formed of pieces of wood, round the upper parts of his legs; but his efforts were in vain, and before the canoe reached the budgerow the man was dead. The Young Rajah
She fell to her knees and tried to stanch it with her hands, but the blood poured through her fingers. DOLL'S EYES
The only guest who had chalked-out other sport for himself was the stanchest of anglers, Mr. Rose; but he too was there on his shelty, armed with his salmon-rod and landing-net, and attended by his Hinves, and Charlie Purdie, a brother of Tom, in those days the most celebrated fisherman of the district. Paras. 50-73
Out of respect for the veterans, media are required to stay within the stanchioned area during the ceremony.
We shaved the surrounding parts; and after we had washed and stanched the wound, we melted some tallow and spread it over some lint, which we adapted to the swelling with strips of diachylum. Over Strand and Field
The legs kicked a few times, then were still before the line was tied off on a stanchion. CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER
In the latest incident hundreds of pounds' damage had been caused by louts swinging on the railings, pulling the stanchions away and damaging the old stones.
The students sat in the open cockpit to learn terms such as mizzen mast, jib and stanchion. The News Tribune - Tacoma - - HOMEPAGE
That went on forever, me telling him to hang on, trying to stanch the blood. AFTERMATH
There, amid torqued stanchions, lay a limp figure, pierced in many places and bloodless. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
The news comes as the city and state governments are getting traction in their efforts to generate more high-skilled technology and help stanch the anticipated loss to the economy of thousands of finance jobs. Silicon Alley Gets a Boost
He stanched the leak of the boat with a piece of cloth.
The legs kicked a few times, then were still before the line was tied off on a stanchion. CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER
Yet it were best to leave an American reference open for audit and umpirage to the stanch E.P. Clark of the New England Bank. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II
The addiction to the scoop is the reason so many journalists choose to tote that notepad and stanch that hangover and, ignoring a gathering avalanche of doubts, listen so intently to a succession of batty and battier strangers who phone or e-mail or show up in the lobby unannounced to say they know where Jimmy Hoffa is buried. A Claim to Camelot
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
A youth crouches on a stanchion under York's new Millennium Bridge - some 15 feet above the bank and the swirling waters of the River Ouse.
There is barely a scrap of bare metal on the stanchions, pillars, posts, railings, and decking ribs.
There is barely a scrap of bare metal on the stanchions, pillars, posts, railings, and decking ribs.
The Silva tribe, however, stanchly defended him, fighting more than one pitched battle for his honor, and black eyes and bloody noses became quite the order of the day and added to Maria's perplexities and troubles. Chapter 39
Companies large and small are introducing new devices that address some of the signature failures of the Deepwater Horizon blowout—from the equipment that failed to seal the well to the lack of technology for stanching the flow of oil into the Gulf. Gulf Disaster Fuels New Safety Gear
Cows were maintained in open dry-lot pens with self-locking head stanchions along a flat concrete feed line.
A jet skier who crashed into a stanchion on Blackpool North Pier may have had a heart attack, an inquest has heard.
After stanching four straight years of red ink at the unit, the videogame business is facing its next big challenge with the introduction of a new portable game machine, the PlayStation Vita. Sony Executive Insists TVs Remain in Picture
The liquidation on a vast scale for the second time in a quarter of a century of Britain's investments overseas in order to buy war materials from the United States proceeded apace long before the conclusion of the Lease-Lend agreements stanched the flow of her economic life blood. Imperial Legacy
She fell to her knees and tried to stanch it with her hands, but the blood poured through her fingers. DOLL'S EYES
If they behave like everyone else, how much will that stanch the passion of his support?
In a time shorter than it takes to tell it, the two doomed men are made fast to the stanchioned chairs; where they sit bolt upright, firm as bollard heads. The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea
Ms. Rousseff's move stanched evangelical defections. Brazil Vote's Winners: Evangelicals
The aerodynamic package features a carbon fiber "fanged" splitter in front and adjustable carbon-fiber wing with seven-position stanchions that allow up to an amazing 1,000 lbs. of downforce at 150 mph. Undefined
Gator farmer Ms. Tillman says she's all for stanching Florida's red ink. Alligator Farmers Snap Back At Florida's Plan to Sever Funding
She then flew into a rage when the car hit a stanchion.
One way to stanch inflation is to change the way the grade point average is calculated.
But O, build it strong and stanch, And to the lines and the treacherous rocks look well as you launch Over the foamy tops of the waves, and their foam-sprent sides, Over the hidden reefs, and through the embattled tides, Onward rushes the raft, with many a lurch and leap, -- Lord! if it strike him loose from the hold he scarce can keep! Complete March Family Trilogy
Wisteria is wrapped around the porch stanchions; a squirrel is running along the top of the chain-link fence surrounding a decent-sized garden.
But the Lady Castlewood went back from him, putting back her hood, and leaning against the great stanchioned door which the gaoler had just closed upon them. The History of Henry Esmond
The European Central Bank has stanched the bleeding in markets by buying Spanish and Italian bonds. Euro Zone Risks Becoming Spanish Prisoner With Bond Buys
The massive stanchions that had supported the crane gantry rails in the past now support the new steel-framed structures.
But as bad as it has been, and despite Republican obstruction, the recovery plan stanched the fall -- and Obama has created more jobs in the recession than Bush created in eight years in office. Rev. Jesse Jackson: GOP Runs on the "Big Lie"
I felt like one of those guys who's walking briskly down the street text messaging and is suddenly knocked cold by a streetlight stanchion he didn't see. Rex Pickett: The Sideways Publishing Saga -- Part III: Whiplash; Dismay!
After the initial incisions are made, robotic arms wielding a tiny camera and surgical tools make the snips, stanch the blood flow, and sew up inside when all is done.
Sophia stanched the blood with a cloth.
Yet it were best to leave an American reference open for audit and umpirage to the stanch E.P. Clark of the New The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II.
Three years ago, in an effort to stanch the alarming flow of failed R&D projects, Pfizer dispatched 600 of its top scientists to determine why so many compounds flunked in clinical trials.
I had yet to tie together a thousand feet of rope, but hoping that I might be able to momentarily, I tied one end of the rope to a large iron stanchion and hooked the massive coil of line over the polished oak rail.
Tensioning the cable results in an uplift force at each of the stanchions.
Thus Mr. Fiennes grew up in rarefied circumstances, surrounded by the artifacts (and vocabulary) of a vanished world: halberds and stanchions, vaults and corbels, groined passages, burgonets, rapiers and spontoons. Within The Castle Walls
the main point of air springs is saving weight, and a 40mm stanchioned fork isn't going to pull that off too well.
Whether the group will be able to maintain its emphasis on stanching the nation's flow of red ink while avoiding divisive social issues is an open question. Death of the Duopoly
Tesco largely stanched the sales decline in its home market with food pricing in the first quarter, but lackluster nonfood sales were hampered by weak consumer spending in the U.K. What's News
The next day the folks working the tow line lowered all the stanchions on the back of the carts to increase the angle of attack.
As non-executive chairman, Mr. Smale served as a corporate architect while Mr. Smith worked to stanch losses of $11 million a day. P&G Chief Snapped Up Brands, Led GM Overhaul
Yasushi Takashita smiled sheepishly when his slender girlfriend Rika, clinging to the train stanchion next to him, suggested he use the Internet to search for some college-related information he needs. Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Japanese Youth: Phone Wizards, PC Illiterates?
In a statement to the inquest, Mr Delstanche senior, said his son was not trying to harm himself but thought he could burn the spirits or demons out of his body.
That could roil credit markets, stanching businesses' access to capital. What It Would Take to Do a Double Dip
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Surrounding the tumor was a constellation of lesser ones, but, ultimately, the plum, stanching the flow of blood to her brain stem, would kill her. Three Stages of Amazement
I believe she could have a great charity, that no evil-doing would dismay her: "stanch" sums her up. An Englishwoman's Love-Letters
And at his call the stanch hearts unite into one great, strong heart, deep and sensitive as a silver bell not yet cast. Mother
It is set lengthwise, fore and aft, a stout hair-cloth chair at top, another at bottom, and one at each side -- all, like the table, stanchioned to the timbers of the half-deck. The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea
The room was high, narrow, and lit by a barred and stanchioned window, far above my reach, even if I had been unbound. A Monk of Fife
Stanchioned cattle are very restless because their restraint limits their ability to lick or scratch.
The ship was to carry a "crinoline" of stanchions along her water-line, practically a fixed torpedo-net. The Illustrated War News, Number 21, Dec. 30, 1914
Indeed (thanks be to God!) we have no more house-burnings, but many heart-burnings; and though outward bleeding be stanched, it is to be feared that the broken vein bleeds inwards, which is more dangerous. Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers.

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