How To Use Stoop In A Sentence

Discourse doesn't have to stoop to the level unreturnable. Hillary On Obama's Speeches: "It's Change You Can Xerox"
Stooping, I lifted the belt, ornamental silver medallions that tinkled faintly together like coins of small denominations. I'LL TAKE YOU THERE
I stooped down to try and see through the _rahar_ who was there but the crop was so thick that I could see nothing; so I climbed up the mowah tree to look. Folklore of the Santal Parganas
Mac put a heavy hand on her shoulder and pushed her aside to allow Jon to stoop in the doorway and lay a girlish kiss on the girl's badly rouged cheek.
When I stoop to feel the texture of a small furry leaf, she quickly tells me not to touch the plants.

However, we cannot continue to stoop to their level, because it removes our right to righteous indignation at their atrocities.
He stooped to pick up the carrier bag of groceries.
An elderly woman was standing behind him, frail and stooped, her thinning silver hair as light as goose down. AMAGANSETT
The Doctor stooped and picked it up. The Story of Doctor Dolittle
Snore… these are not "old classic liberal fear and shmear" tactics… they are old classic "political fear and shmear tactics" that all parties stoop to. Heckling, H1N1, sexism, politics, poor taste and an apology - Beyond The Commons - Macleans.ca
Can he stoop any lower? Times, Sunday Times
The MiGs dropped like hawks stooping on their prey, four silver-gray aircraft with backswept delta wings. Carrie
The doorway was so low that he had to stoop.
But he was a slight man with a stoop and a nervous disposition. THE CURIOUS LIFE OF ROBERT HOOKE: The Man who Measured London
Instead, cheesy movies are the ones that get the "stoopid" Oscars. Science Fiction and Hollywood Awards
The man, half stooping, caught the woolen bashlik that had fallen from his head. The Centaur
Morgan almost stooped in mid-stride causing the horse to shy away.
The man, whose name is evocative of fear and hatred in films, stands upright without even a stoop to suggest his 71 years.
The shabby man stooped and took off his boots. What the Bee Knows - reflections on myth, symbol and story
I had an apple with me in my hand, and as I stooped to drink I thrust it deep into the pocket of my ulster to be safe. Movie Night
The Stoop certainly seems a jollier place than in the reign of Dean Richards and tries by the young hooker Joe Gray and Mike Brown in the first 16 minutes ensured Quins had the last laugh here. Rory Clegg steps out of Nick Evans's pocket as Harlequins beat Sale
We were watching Annie, another centre falconer, luring a young lanner through a pattern of stoops and dives after a pair of meat-garnished, dried wings swung on a long cord.
The height change means that while you went through it with a slight stoop when you were young, you'll be going through in a duckwalk as a grownup, and considering that you do the equivalent of a couple of blocks underground your legs will be wobbly as hell by the end of it. Back from radio silence
He was a tall, thin fellow with a slight stoop.
He stooped under the low beam.
The doorway was so low that we had to stoop to go through it.
The headmistress was a tall gray-haired woman with a slight stoop that betrayed her age. Pendragon Before the War
Now 71, he is tanned and tall, with a slight stoop.
Imagine having to stoop to that level - particularly after being ignored by Her Majesty for years.
The men on the stoops looked at us when we walked but didn't catcall. RANDOM ACTS OF SENSELESS VIOLENCE
Help may also be had through physiotherapy, advice on improving the posture, use of a soft surgical collar, advice on avoiding bending or stooping and on how best to carry weights.
He would not stoop to ask for any man's compliments, praises, flatteries; and he would be far above exacting them.
I was then only seven or eight, and can only remember a kindly man with sparkling eyes who stooped low to talk to me.
Instinctively Loretta stooped down to pick it up.
He was a tall, thin fellow with a slight stoop.
Also, we would probably score a moral victory over the terrorists, since we show that we will not stoop to their levels and treat prisoners of war as “enemy combatants”, wich is what they want so they can use it for their propaganda. Think Progress » Brown victory party featured flag calling for a ‘second’ revolution, tea party-inspired civil war.
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She stoops over her heavy tambour frame, at work that fascinates her black spaniel dog, which stands with its forepaws on the front bar to watch her dexterity.
He walked or sat with his eyes continually fixed upon these feet -- reproachfully, it seemed -- as if their disproportion were a source of perennial woe; he carried his arms looped behind him, and had acquired a peculiar stoop -- to facilitate his vigilant guardianship of his feet, apparently. The Gold-Stealers A Story of Waddy
To stoop so low is not only unacceptable but also beyond belief,' he wrote. Times, Sunday Times
Can he stoop any lower? Times, Sunday Times
After all, if they hadn't, they would not have believed the judge and prosecutor would stoop to the level of shackling a first-grader.
By the time we left the hairdressers, Flora was practically stooped, extremely withdrawn. SOMEBODY
How could one so pure have stooped from her decorous and noble manner of bearing! North and South
Her white foot was on the very step beside his head, and she was stooping to touch him with her white hand, when the little bell in the dortoir rang to rouse the brothers for Prime. A River So Long
I don't - unlike some - have to stoop to declaratives like ‘I loathe’: I've tried to stick to William Goldman's dictum of ‘show, don't tell.’
The noise was deafening as we reached the little courtyard and stooped to enter the main room of the temple.
After looking around for a few seconds, he stooped down to pick up a snail shell he found on the sidewalk.
As the giant stooped and stretched out his long, hairy arm with its knarly hand and talon-like fingers Elvis, without even thinking about it, curled his tail high over his head and let blast with a huge squirt of Stink!!!!! P2pnet news
With her lowered head and stooped shoulders, she totters across the stage.
I did put out a quiver-tip, which rocked back and forth like a blade of grass bowing and stooping before the wind.
It is impossible to understand how anyone could stoop so low. The Sun
Amid the waxed mustaches and astrakhan hats, Mr. Plummer is magnetic as Tolstoy — stooped, bearded and snowy as the landscape. Make Sure You Don't Miss The Last Station!
We had to stoop to pass through the low entrance.
I turned around to leave, but, dropping my precious box of margarite, I stooped to pick it up. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862
Donald stooped and lifted the tike to his shoulder, marveling the while that such a cherub could be the product of any of the denizens of the Sawdust Pile. Kindred of the Dust
The quiet guitarist stooped in the gutter to pick up a bag of frozen chicken wings, a pack of custard creams and a small jar of piccalilli.
By this stage, the scriptwriters are into their fourteenth magic mushroom, as the plot ricochets between schizophrenia and plain stoopid.
She may want to argue, but it takes two to tango and I won't stoop to her level.
She disapproved of his toddling walk, his fat, stooped shoulders, his spats and general appearance of over-emphasized dapperness. The Man from the Bitter Roots
The Doctor stooped and picked it up. The Story of Doctor Dolittle
As she stooped to pick it up the blood rushed to her face. The House of Mirth
He set down the caba containing his instruments, and medicaments, adjusted his glasses, and stooping over, intently studied the wound made by the cobra. The Jungle Fugitives A Tale of Life and Adventure in India Including also Many Stories of American Adventure, Enterprise and Daring
As the second stooped to assist her fallen friend, who should walk towards the hotel entrance but their hero.
He stooped over the table, pulled a leaf from a warped pocket - book.
he would stoop to any device to win a point
She labored up to the stoop, red face partially hidden by brown paper bags.
You get a half baked tan/sunburn due to being stooped over the shovel or work area, but the 95 degree heat helps sweat off the pounds.
She was unwilling to believe anyone would stoop so low as to steal a ring from a dead woman's finger.
A stooping, dispirited Adam and a wistful Eve walk slowly through a lush garden with gravid fruit trees and a profusion of animals, as a flaming red cherub, his sword raised, glowers against a possible return.
Could anyone in tinsel town stoop so low?
He was there standing on the front stoop, hands stuck in his pockets.
It's one of these sixty-cent table dotty joints, with an electric name sign, a striped stoop awnin ', and a seven-course menu manifolded in pale purple ink. Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe
During the Brixton riots inquiry in 1981 his tall, stooping figure appeared regularly on television.
I stoop to compromise easily but people still thought I was aggressive.
A freckled boy of about seventeen was stooped over his jointer, busy bevelling a barrel-stave, and another a year or two younger was carefully paring long bands of willow for binding the staves together when the barrel was set up in its truss hoop. An Excellent Mystery
I had but sat down to a flask of malvoisie and a mortress of brawn, as is my use about this hour, when there comes a cherking, and I find my wine over my legs and the flask in my lap, and then as I stoop to clip it there comes another cursed cherk, and there is a mortress of brawn stuck fast to the nape of my neck. The White Company
Most of the trulli are still people's homes - as evidenced by the women shelling peas on the front stoops.
stoop-shouldered
As my falcon stoopt upon him, and gript and held him fast. The Falconer of God
It is the little old men, dressed in rubber-tire sandals, wearing white cotton pants and guayabera, stooped over and plodding down the road with an enormous load on his back, secured by a tumpline across his forehead. San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas
He must leap over branches the height of his head, and stoop under branches as low as his knee, without slowing or leaving a shaking branch behind.
I sat on our scratchy brick stoop, dangling my legs edge, feeling more rootless felt.
As a result, people who seem normal, your everyday Joe, suddenly become these sadistic monsters who will stoop to anything to achieve the end.
Jada would stoop over after he stormed out and pick up the sparkling pieces, jagged like uncut diamonds.
Who could believe that someone so upstanding would stoop to besmear himself in the slush of Teapot Dome? The Prize
He walked with a stoop and a rolling gait, the once upright take-on-the-world stance of the magnificent athlete now reduced to a shambling stagger.
Lifelong Baltimoreans always spot a journalist imported from out of town, because an auslander will write about people sitting on the stoop. Blog updates
To the right of Symphorien, who is led to his death by a pair of fasces-wielding lictors, a youth stoops to gather stones, which he will hurl at the saint's mother.
The merchant, the client, had willingly stooped into the dungeon of lust.
The Doctor stooped and picked it up. The Story of Doctor Dolittle
The next morning the sun finally drilled a tunnel through the smother of clouds that squatted on the plain so low I stooped when I got into my Bronco.
It says something about the smear campaign against our candidate that it has stooped to enlist a hatemonger.
She would have stooped to retrieve her knives had he not waved his own at her threateningly.
Jorge stooped down, picked it up and dusted it off.
I watched a few seconds of this – 10 minutes of concentrated stoopid is too much for me. Think Progress » GOP Rep. Nunes Excuses Racist, Homophobic Tea Partier Slurs As A Response To ‘Totalitarian Tactics’
Sophie stooped to throw another branch on the pile.
Frannie reached up and unbolted the top then, stooping to unbolt the bottom, opened the door. SACRAMENT
And as the boy was stooping over the open chest, crash went the lid down.
If Hillary is such a leader, so knowledgable about the ways of DC, couldn't she have used some of her clout to voice her disdain for such an obviously "stoopid" policy? Obama: It's Me Against The D.C. Foreign Policy Establishment
The hunter eventually overcame his fear and stooped to examine the water.
Swiss actor, Bruno Ganz, portrays Hitler, and is said to achieve a photographic likeness of the stooped, 56-year-old dictator, who was plagued by Parkinson's disease.
To recap the latest episode, the authors have stooped to the hoary old plot device of a startling newspaper revelation to chivvy the drama along.
He stoops to recover the horseshoe from where it lies.
The play's opening scene presents life in the cramped stokehole, where ‘the ceiling crushes down on the men's heads’ and the attitudes of the stooping, proto-simian workers suggest beasts in a cage, ‘imprisoned by white steel.’
When I bought my house, there were immense, ball-shaped evergreens on either side of the front stoop.
The telepath was a stoop-shouldered balding gent with large feet. Tinker's Dam
But he was a slight man with a stoop and a nervous disposition. THE CURIOUS LIFE OF ROBERT HOOKE: The Man who Measured London
the rocks stooped down over the hiking path
I won't stoop to argue with him.
I am ashamed of it myself, and for this reason I stoop to beg your pardon.
He had to stoop, shoulders hunched, to prevent his head from coming into contact with the canvas awning. THE DEVIL'S DOOR
He had been traveling astoop, partly because the burden of his years weighed heavy on his shoulders, partly as if his muscles had unconsciously reverted to the easy, slouching, climbing-stoop of the Kentucky mountaineer. In Old Kentucky
But the boy Mohammed being by me objurgated-for I remarked in him a jaunty demeanour combined with neglectfulness of ceremonies-saluted it sulkily, muttering the while hints about the holiness of his birthplace exempting him from the trouble of stooping. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
That fact hardly caught the military brass stooped over $ 1, 000 toilet seats with their britches down.
The pain he felt when stooping to load his washing machine got him thinking about better ways to do it. Times, Sunday Times
The elderly man is of medium height and build, wearing glasses and walking with a slight stoop.
How could anyone stoop so low? The Sun
He was a tall, thin fellow with a slight stoop.
He stooped down, cut the stem for her with his knife and handed her the flower.
Sure, I'm overqualified… I'm willing to stoop to that level.
Our house was a traditional skinny and long two-story attached home with a brick front stoop, perfect for stoopball. HAVE YOU SEEN MY COUNTRY LATELY?
They tended to be depressing these visits: the married sister was living in a small way; the first cousin seemed to have got into a rut; the uncle and aunt were failing, with a stooping, trembling, old-fashioned kind of decrepitude, a rigidity of body and mind, which somehow one didn't see much over home. The Imperialist
Miss Biddums obediently stooped to the lowest shelf of the _almirah_ and unearthed the big paper box in which His Majesty the King kept his dearest possessions. Indian Tales
By stooping this low he has brought shame on our badge. The Sun
O lithe Temptation, thou swift tropical tiger of most rare exquisite spots, thou art never more dangerous than when thou hast just retired before a human eye into thy jungle, as if the eye-glance had conquered thee; for then, when the man hath twice gratulated himself, and whilst he is stooping to pluck one of thy jungle-flowers to crown his victory withal, then thou leapest! Tiger-Lilies. A Novel.
You must have slowed your step for me and stooped slightly, to reach my hand. The Times Literary Supplement
Stooping down, he picked up my bag, slinging it over his shoulder.
WHY do some celebrities stoop so low in the name of promotion? The Sun
Michael Ignatieff says he won't stoop to threatening an election despite what he calls the Tories '"crazy way" of running a democracy. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
I don't believe our youths would stoop so low as to desecrate the graves or vandalise the cemetery.
His shoulders were round; or else he had a perpetual stoop in them. DISRAELI: A Personal History
Also available is a handle and wheel set that allows you to trim grass edges without stooping or bending. Times, Sunday Times
Lately, I have noticed a man sitting on the stoop of an apartment building near mine.
Stoops was 41-50 but also had led the Wildcats to bowl games each of the past three seasons, doing so in a manner that had the word "fiery" essentially affixed as a permanent addition to his first name. The Seattle Times
How could anyone stoop so low? The Sun
Opening my eyes I found the suffragan bishop of Starmouth stooping over me. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
The doorway was so low that we had to stoop to go through it.
The doorway was so low that he had to stoop.
On the other side of the cross, the copper-haired, long-nosed St John stoops in sad obeisance.
Their stooping posture was of a person melting down, slumping into the stance of a vicious carnivore.
We sat talking on the stoop until midnight.
Then she stooped down to him and kissed him, and he naysaid her not, but seemed rather glad when it was over; but when The Water of the Wondrous Isles
Maybe not even cynical, maybe just female practicality which can stoop with clearest conscience below the level of the lowest stratagem.
The doorway was so low that we had to stoop to go through it.
They made their stooping way up and down the rows of tomato plants.
It is impossible to understand how anyone could stoop so low. The Sun
He was then totally at home as the bonhomous but mountingly indignant Mr Hardcastle in a revival of Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer at the Young Vic in 1972. The Guardian World News
Bink stooped low and swung the flat of his sword sidewise, sweeping dozens of thumbnail-sized cats into the lake. The Source of Magic
Once upon a time I entered a vineyard to eat of its grapes; and, whilst so doing behold, I saw a falcon stoop upon a partridge and seize him; but the partridge escaped from the seizer and, entering his nest, hid himself there. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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She followed a flagstone path across the front lawn to a one-step concrete stoop. FLIGHT LESSONS
And to call _Theseus_ backe from his begunne imprese and bold attempt, and to terrifie the Gyant _Typhon_, and to make the proudest and stoutest heart whatsoeuer to quaile and stoope. Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
They descended on the village like a falcon in stoop.
The men on the stoops looked at us when we walked but didn't catcall. RANDOM ACTS OF SENSELESS VIOLENCE
A respectable elderly woman stooping forward, invested in crinoline, exposes quite as much of her own person to the patient lying in the room as any opera dancer does on the stage. Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not
Borrowing a pen from another tourist, she stooped down to the boy's level.
A near - infrared spectrometer based on an integrated optical acoustooptic tunable filter ( IAOTF ) is constructed.
Stooped but spry, he has the look of a mischievous garden gnome.
She was a very thin, mousy, slightly stooped woman looking no older than a student.
Stooping he examined it closely and found to his surprise that it was the opening of a shelter tent or wikiup. Connie Morgan in the Fur Country
WESTSIDE CONNECTION with Ed Blammo is like a backyard barbecue, rolling with Lorenzo in a benzo down crenshaw, kicking it on the stoop, and a parliment-funkadelic block party all rolled up together in a big fat blunt. FiftyOne:FiftyOne
Though he stoops over as if gravity is dragging down his meaty shoulders, Rod standing tall is six feet six inches and 270 pounds.
As she stooped to pick it up the blood rushed to her face. The House of Mirth
Then as we overtook them, the young man stooped down and tenderly undid her buckles. Times, Sunday Times
It depicts a prostitute in lower Manhattan in front of a stoop with a black cat poised on the railing - a visual pun on cathouse.
Blow, sweet breeze," said D----, half to himself, half aloud; and casting his eyes, alternately from the flying jib and foresail to the swelling gaff-topsail, stooped down and looked under the boom at the land. A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition
Stooping, I lifted the belt, ornamental silver medallions that tinkled faintly together like coins of small denominations. I'LL TAKE YOU THERE
The fireball had been close-followed by some stub-winged whooshing nightbird or hog-faced bat, flicking low to Inman's head, causing him to duck and walk stooped for three full strides. Cold Mountain
He took a little slim white hand and laid it down on his brown palm, where it looked all the whiter: he cleared the grizzled mustachio from his mouth, and stooping down he kissed the little white hand with a great deal of grace and dignity. The Newcomes
But he was a slight man with a stoop and a nervous disposition. THE CURIOUS LIFE OF ROBERT HOOKE: The Man who Measured London
He stooped down and carefully peered around the doorway, both ways.
And these, and she stooped to pick a couple of yellow blossoms, that were growing in the sand at her feet, these are immortelles. Chapter XI
Oh, and the donkeywork is done by ones PhD student who is now to busy to archive, and one obviously wouldn’t stoop to that sort of thing oneself. Wilson et al 2007 « Climate Audit
He and Connie had laughed it up in the driveway, ending up kissing like old times sitting on the back stoop under starlight, half-frozen. Blues Machine
Occasionally, a kite stoops and grabs a dragonfly, one of its favorite meals.
Concrete is popular for sidewalks, parking pads, patios, dumpster pads, front stoops, recreational areas, driveways, curbs, gutters and much more.
Steve Jones, then a student at University College London, recounts how he was approached by a stooped middle-aged American with a straggly beard and wild hair who told me, with great intensity, that he had a hotline to Jesus. SuperCooperators
Instead he stooped to untie the young woman as fast as his iron-strong fingers could unknot her.
She stooped low to look under the bed.
Can he stoop any lower? Times, Sunday Times
To stoop so low is not only unacceptable but also beyond belief,' he wrote. Times, Sunday Times
She was tall, angular and stooped and leant heavily on the stick, her white knuckles clutched. Times, Sunday Times
I fancy I had been making queer faces enough, and perhaps talking to myself, When I saw myself used in this manner, I held out my clenched fists straight before me, stooped my head, and, like a ram when be makes his race, darted off right down the street, scattering groups of weatherbeaten lairds and periwigged burgesses, and bearing down all before me. Redgauntlet
WHY do some celebrities stoop so low in the name of promotion? The Sun
Momentarily, I will get up, take a few steps down the hallway, and peek out onto our front stoop.
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Most of the trulli are still people's homes - as evidenced by the women shelling peas on the front stoops.
Out on the stoop a bunch of men were sitting hunched over their six packs and a dog was incessantly barking.
How could one so pure have stooped from her decorous and noble manner of bearing! North and South
Stooping to pat him, she glanced into the porch.
But in relation to the new cemetery, I don't believe our youths would stoop so low as to desecrate the graves or vandalise the cemetery.
It ended with a long kiss on my stoop and his promise to call the next day.
You show him round then," Alma said, stooping to pick up the photocopies that Ashley had managed to scatter on the floor. LOST CHILDREN
Why stoop down to things that will spoil the beauty of our hearts? Daily Readings with Mother Theresa
He still had hawk's eyes and a slight stoop in his shoulders was his only concession to his years. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
Jackson was sitting on the stoop early in the morning, when the birds were just beginning to call and the sky was grey.
He is eight stone nothing, stoop-shouldered, pigeon-toed, thirty-three.
Though the trees and the undergrowth had been cut back, branches and dense foliage stooped overhead.
He had not, until recently, stooped to personal abuse.

How To Use Stoop In A Sentence

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