stooping

How To Use stooping In A Sentence

• They were weak and paused often, catching themselves, in the act of stooping, with giddy motions, or staggering to the center of operations with their knees shaking like castanets. The Wisdom of the Trail
• And see here, Pa, "stooping to pick up a piece of cretonne from the rubbish on the floor –" this has been a paper holder – there's beads sewed on it around the flowers; and do you see yon little shelf? The Second Chance
• Stooping down, he placed the cup into his father's shaky hands and watched him take a slow draught, dribbling the water down his stubbly, unshaven chin.
• I mean I do not recall slimeball Rove stooping to calling her a F*cking Wh*re, at least he had a little class. ABC's Ignominy Continues
• One of the scoundrels finding that he was baulked of his prey, threw a large stone at Patterson as he was sitting on the side of his bed, which he narrowly evaded by stooping down.
• Then stooping down and raising himself with a rapid motion, he made a violent current of air with his poncho, which made the wood take fire, and soon a bright flame roared in the improvised brasier. In Search of the Castaways
• There are stooping painted storks, immaculate spoonbills, small groups of dabchicks puttering about like busy little tugboats, and a pair of patrolling river terns, which I think are nesting on a mud-spit at the far side.
• “I must have mistaken the person to whom the letter was addressed, then;” and, as she spoke, Mistress Martha Trapbois was in the act of stooping to lift the paper which had been so uncourteously received. The Fortunes of Nigel
• Then his opponent talked and sang; and as this produced no noticeable effect, he danced, and stooping, began "to cut the pigeonwing" directly under the rifle-barrel. Sergeant York And His People
• Stooping down, he picked up a big stone and hurled it.