How To Use Stooping In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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“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
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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
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Stooping down, he picked up a big stone and hurled it.
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I have sometimes been with the swinging hammock the native mother prepares for her sick infant – apparently so much easier than aught we have in our more civilized homes; easier for the child, because it gets the motion without the least jar; and easier for the nurse, because the hammock is strung so high as to supersede the necessity of stooping.
Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York, in 1828
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Blonde would not wet her hair; she leant her head and shoulders far back, stretching her lined throat, meeting the brunt of the water on her chest; or, stooping forward, let it hammer down the ridgeway of her spine.
Growing Pains
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Also available is a handle and wheel set that allows you to trim grass edges without stooping or bending.
Times, Sunday Times
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By stooping this low he has brought shame on our badge.
The Sun
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He had always prided himself on never stooping to such slang.
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I spun towards the voice, stooping to grab my knife.
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The Son hath done his part, and is to express his infinite love, infinite condescendency, and stooping below his majesty.
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
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He saw the man in the act of stooping after the fallen bashlik.
The Centaur
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Splendid aerial displays are described, the birds climbing several hundred feet before stooping at tremendous speed at each other until almost at ground-level when the performance is repeated.
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Stooping to pat him, she glanced into the porch.
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They were weak, and paused often, catching themselves, in the act of stooping, with giddy motions, or staggering to the centre of operations with their knees shaking like castanets.
THE WISDOM OF THE TRAIL
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But this plain, where the fellaheen are stooping to the soil, and the women are carrying the water-jars, and the children are playing in the doura, and the oxen and the camels are working with ploughs that look like relics of far-off days, is the possession of the two great presiding beings whom you see from an enormous distance, the Colossi of
The Spell of Egypt
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He was on horseback, and, stooping from his saddle, was endeavouring just now -- but very unhandily -- to unhasp the gate with the crook of his riding-whip.
Lady Good-for-Nothing
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Fifty dollar a plew!" he muttered, unsheathing his knife and stooping over the body.
The Scalp Hunters
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I did put out a quiver-tip, which rocked back and forth like a blade of grass bowing and stooping before the wind.
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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
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a little oldish misshapen stooping woman
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The man had turned his head on hearing his name, and stood up, stooping under each ceiling beam as he came towards them.
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He gibbered his own rage and hurt, and, stooping, dealt Jerry a tremendous blow alongside the head and neck.
CHAPTER VIII
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Also available is a handle and wheel set that allows you to trim grass edges without stooping or bending.
Times, Sunday Times
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It amazes me that people in our society are stooping so low for their own financial gain.
Times, Sunday Times
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I remember Mr Hubble as a tough, high – shouldered, stooping old man, of a sawdusty fragrance, with his legs extraordinarily wide apart: so that in my short days
Great Expectations
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King of the daylit-world, it became queen of the dimmer realms of night, and like a woman-queen it did not disdain to stoop and study its loveliness in the polished lake, and stooping thus it overhung the earth, a shadowy creature of gleam and gloom, an eternized cloud.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862
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The old man was stooping but he could walk around without a cane
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By stooping this low he has brought shame on our badge.
The Sun
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At its base a short squirm and section of stooping passage brings one to the first of the major features of the cave, the Canal.
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It amazes me that people in our society are stooping so low for their own financial gain.
Times, Sunday Times
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This procession was a walk with stooping heads, bullets raining in through the loopholes, and frantic runs along ditches beside hedges (just like the "shallows" at Carlton).
Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie (commanding 1st Battn. Royal Irish Rifles) Dated November 4th, 1914-March 11th, 1915
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Stooping, I placed my eye to the tiny slit, and waited impatiently for a gleam of white light that might penetrate from the westward airt which it faced.
Border Ghost Stories
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No one can pretend that his stooping, kneeling, and digging figures are beautiful, either by contemporary standards or our own.
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Backbreaking work, all that stooping but I had been warned, even discouraged from going.
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Walking through the grass, and thinking of the dew and the beautiful morning sunshine, I scarcely noticed the quantity of cuckoo-flowers, or cardamine, till presently it occurred to me that it was very late in the season for cuckoo-flowers and stooping I picked one, and in the act saw it was an orchis -- the early purple.
The Life of the Fields
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Not being terribly bendy today I had to resort to stooping and holding the camera at arm's length, pointing hopefully at the little blooms, relying on instinct to achieve an adequate framing.
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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.’
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They made their stooping way up and down the rows of tomato plants.
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Their stooping posture was of a person melting down, slumping into the stance of a vicious carnivore.
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Opening my eyes I found the suffragan bishop of Starmouth stooping over me.
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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Also available is a handle and wheel set that allows you to trim grass edges without stooping or bending.
Times, Sunday Times
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Stooping down, he picked up my bag, slinging it over his shoulder.
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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.
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By stooping this low he has brought shame on our badge.
The Sun
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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
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The pain he felt when stooping to load his washing machine got him thinking about better ways to do it.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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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
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And as the boy was stooping over the open chest, crash went the lid down.
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Frannie reached up and unbolted the top then, stooping to unbolt the bottom, opened the door.
SACRAMENT
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During the Brixton riots inquiry in 1981 his tall, stooping figure appeared regularly on television.
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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.
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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
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I did put out a quiver-tip, which rocked back and forth like a blade of grass bowing and stooping before the wind.
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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
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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.
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The man, half stooping, caught the woolen bashlik that had fallen from his head.
The Centaur
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The MiGs dropped like hawks stooping on their prey, four silver-gray aircraft with backswept delta wings.
Carrie
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Two decades before he ever jostled with Du Bois, he was asserting that of course ‘there should be no unmanly cowering or stooping to satisfy unreasonable whims of the Southern white man.’
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Frannie reached up and unbolted the top then, stooping to unbolt the bottom, opened the door.
SACRAMENT
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If she were seen holding a stem of beardtongue blossoms to admire their color or stooping to touch the spikes of jimson leaves, some would solemnly call her mazed in the head not to know beardtongue when she saw it, and others would wonder, grinning, was she so wit-scoured as perhaps to eat jimson?
Cold Mountain
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Given Antarctic wastes to cross at temperatures stooping to a parky minus 75 degrees celsius, the Japanese South Pole Observation Team wouldn't dream of packing their boots into the back of anything else.
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Then we branch off into a small passage to begin our mixture of scrambling, climbing, stooping, crawling and swearing through the Mendip limestone.
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Stooping , holding their silver lamp above us, long they lookand deeply . Long they pause.
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It was stated that the ulcer was the result of the girl's stooping over some bushes to take an egg from a hen's nest, when the point of a palmetto stuck in her breast and broke off.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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It amazes me that people in our society are stooping so low for their own financial gain.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then, stooping, I stepped in between her and the man in the jump seat, feeling the little jounce and sag of the carriage body under my weight.
Time and Again
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What is that defective being, with calfless legs and stooping shoulders, weak in body and mind, inert, pusillanimous and stupid, whose premature wrinkles and furtive glance, tell of misery and degradation?
Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject
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The chief hotel at Sherton – Abbas was an old stone-fronted inn with a yawning arch, under which vehicles were driven by stooping coachmen to back premises of wonderful commodiousness.
The Woodlanders
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Stooping, I lifted the belt, ornamental silver medallions that tinkled faintly together like coins of small denominations.
I'LL TAKE YOU THERE
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It is almost an axiom that no man may make a career in politics in the Republic without stooping to such ignobility: it is as necessary as a loud voice.
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'Then aiblins,' replied the elder, stooping and knocking the ashes from his pipe against the fender, 'there micht be a bit gliff, an' this bit paper micht come in gey useful by way o 'stirrin' up his conscience the whilk, I'm thinkin ', has been growin' stiff i 'his auld age.
Border Ghost Stories
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No wonder the wolves start back in affright; no wonder the vultures, after stooping low, ply their wings in quick nervous stroke, and soar up again!
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The clergyman was just going to knock when he heard a clinking noise, and turning saw through the open door of a black shed just behind him an elderly woman in a black lace cap stooping among reddish big cans, pouring a very bright liquid into a tundish.
The Prussian Officer and Other Stories
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You show him round then," Alma said, stooping to pick up the photocopies that Ashley had managed to scatter on the floor.
LOST CHILDREN
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Stooping to pat him, she glanced into the porch.
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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
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Stooping, I lifted the belt, ornamental silver medallions that tinkled faintly together like coins of small denominations.
I'LL TAKE YOU THERE
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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
