How To Use Stop up In A Sentence

A bold and ingenious treatment of the vaulting shaft of the tower groining is used on these piers; on the western ones the shafts stop upon the ends of the hood moulding. The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains
stop up the leak
When the roughcast was delivered to me, I had to stop up the air holes and the core hole, to correct the various defects, and to polish the bronze with files and very fine emery.
Some tried to stop up the leaks while others tried to steady the rudder.
What a pity they didn't stop up the chinks and the crannies though, and thrust in a little lint here and there.

Under California law, those payments should stop upon the death of the payee, which is Michael Jackson. CNN Transcript Aug 3, 2009
She often had to stop up to 40 times during a training session and had to pull out of major competitions because she felt dizzy or faint.
They's a pothole right before the four-way stop up ahead, though. SORT OF RICH
By insulating a previously uninsulated house you stop up to one tonne of carbon dioxide entering the atmosphere each year. Times, Sunday Times
I have to stop up to finish my homework tonight.
Instead of complex linkages and levers, this one keys right on the trigger bar and a small protrusion pushes the firing - pin stop up.
Everyone at the table stop up and pledged the bride and bridegroom.