How To Use Stopper In A Sentence

The defense desperately needs him to be the run stopper in the middle.
The spigot stem had an annular cutting edge to cut a cylindrical plug out of the bung or stopper by twisting the spigot.
Sometimes people don't just pick up the phone & ring Crimestoppers out of some sense of duty, but they will do it for filthy luker. 200 Weeks
Trad climbers use friends, chocks, stoppers and other passive and active gear instead.
It is hoped prisoners can provide information about unsolved cases and will call a free Crimestoppers number. Times, Sunday Times

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The products including cork floor tile, cork wall tile, cork sheet and roll, agglomerated cork stopper, granulated cork and other cork products.
As the Cubs late-inning stopper in 1965, Abernathy led the majors with 84 appearances and 31 saves.
And the Polish stopper admits he could be loaned to a Championship club. The Sun
These were a dozen or so stoppered glass bottles containing a selection of Wakelate's most virulent and inventive poisons.
The scattering cells consisted of polished borosilicate vials with stoppers.
This is slightly harder to do, but with practice it makes an excellent show-stopper and a great way to win a pig.
He lifted a small glass phial that gleamed ruby-red, removed its stopper, and put four drops into a cup. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
A shanked clearance from the City shot-stopper then saw Tait close in on goal, only for Chris Brass to recover sharply and force the Rovers' striker wide and to safety.
The cake was the real showstopper: two-tiered and dense with chocolate mousse and ganache.
Do not, under any circumstances, place the juice in a jug, stopper the jug with a cork, and allow it to sit in a cool, dry place for eighteen to twenty-one days.
She nodded and let him have another swallow of whiskey before she took it from his unresisting fingers and shoved the stopper back into the bottle.
And the American stopper showed the home fans why with a spectacular double save in the 10th minute. The Sun
He took the glass stopper off the big jar and scooped up some brown powder in the crucible. CHARMED LIFE
if my partner has a spade stopper I can bid no trump
Amazingly I found a whisky bottle, still stoppered, with a golden liquid in it and a date of 1780.
And for the final showstopper they have to make 49 bakes in five hours with only one oven each. Times, Sunday Times
Besides there's not a lot to be said for plastic, not if it's a bottle of really good wine that you're stoppering.
Experimentally, a few milliliters of a volatile liquid are placed in a stoppered flask containing a small orifice.
The stopper of this container is remarkable in its representation of a female head, transforming this object, perhaps once owned by a man, into the stylized figure of a woman.
He's more of a shot stopper. The Sun
Her natural creativity and artistic talent make her home a real showstopper.
The line, a showstopper by any standard, was reinforced with impeccable finish and an eye for detail.
She must've seen it as a stopper, a question she could ask without even a smarty tone to her voice. WHEN THE WOMEN COME OUT TO DANCE
The Swede then himself shot straight at the Polish stopper. The Sun
How many romantic misunderstandings and happy-clappy showstoppers must we endure before longing for the curtain to drop in front of those beaming, ambitious faces?
If you are the medicinally walt disney world deals in a ammonitic concessionaire and you zhukov a sprigged doorstopper, you may not get to ginglymus all that you behmen. Rational Review
The 6ft 5in stopper struggled with a thigh injury in the second half. The Sun
It seems as if there will be an air of change weeping through Vinovo as the club are also allegedly keen on Udinese stopper Cristian Zapata.
Take a tally of the number of times Clemens succeeded as a stopper in his years with the Sox.
Note to Nestlé, a sweet cannot be called a gobstopper if after only two minutes in the mouth a chalky, chewable centre is revealed; it’s all about the hardness, the layers, the changing colours and flavours. Archive 2005-09-01
Her breathily sexy aria with Creonte (an excellent Iestyn Davies) was one of several show-stoppers. Niobe, Regina di Tebe; Faust; The Makropulos Case; Fidelio
(AP) - There's no doubt Dallas goalie Marty Turco is an elite puck-stopper. USATODAY.com
Once wine was packaged in bottles stoppered with corks from the end of the 17th century, it became capable of bottle ageing and full maturation.
There were two jugs, sealed with wooden stoppers.
Flooring manufacturers get cork tissue from post-industrial materials - leftovers from the production of bottle stoppers.
On the one hand the child Karl (Carlo came later) recounts a world of Barret's Sherbet Fountains, Black Jacks and gobstoppers, a child's world of powerful sensations and distinctive smells.
The onion soup is another showstopper, rich and sweet from caramelized onions.
At least his Spanish stopper can hold his head up. The Sun
Now cork the carboys with solid rubber stoppers - no holes or airlocks - or stopper the barrel with a solid silicone bung.
The stopper is anchored in place by a rubber hinge on one side of the stopper. Up By Your Bootstraps
Anyone with information regarding the attack should call Maitland Police on (02) 4934 0200 or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000. The Sydney Morning Herald News Headlines
The great landscape abstractions from the late '50s and early '60s were the showstoppers in the last of the three large rooms.
A high spot was definitely a young cellist, Stefan Handjiev, in National Radio's Christmas Concert - an absolute show-stopper.
Presumably, he wished the carboys to float; but he had neglected the extra weight of the stoppers!
Leaf discs in ethanol were then stored at - 80°C in stoppered test tubes prior to carbohydrate analysis.
This incident happened overnight between Monday and Tuesday. nAnyone with any information should call Spalding police station, quoting incident number 26 of October 20, on 01775 722233, or Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111. Undefined
The stopper was hermetically closed and the flask exposed for 5–60 minutes to the light from either a typical UVA tanning lamp or visible light.
He had brought with him a coconut calabash, tightly stoppered, of whale-oil that must have been landed on Lahaina beach thirty years before. SHIN-BONES
I picked up a splendid pair of panel-cut Victorian decanters with original stoppers for £90-now, that has to be value for money.
The simplest procedure is to immerse the stoppered bottle to the required depth.
It is best to put them into wide-mouthed bottles with glass stoppers, as they are all hygroscopic, that is, sensitive to moisture. Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration
Clapton has covered the Johnson songbook throughout his career, most famously in ‘Crossroads’, his barnstorming showstopper when he was in Cream more than 30 years ago.
But the showstopper is the 1,450-square-foot Robert Louis Stevenson Suite, with its front-to-back picture windows on three sides -- the joint has helicopter views from the bathtub. Dream Hideaways: The World's Top Microboutique Hotels
If you want to save leftover wine for cooking, keep it tightly stoppered in the fridge and use within a week; when there's less than half a bottle, decant it into a smaller bottle so it has less contact with the air that makes it go off.
The upmarket style bible put Camilla in its ‘showstoppers’ category of women who know how to dress for a big occasion.
Kevin Rudd is offering premiers an extra $1.2 billion to win support for his health plan but it remains contingent on a potential "showstopper" - handing over 30 per cent of their GST. Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
This keeps the controls close enough to the forward end of the boom, but also keeps the stopper forward of the area where the boom vang is attached.
I used to love the penny tray which was full of gobstoppers, bubblies, Spangles and Jelly Tots.
So when a country with no tradition of musicals found itself needing chorus lines and showstoppers, Lambe was one of a new breed of stage performers capable of answering its call.
Yet the showstopper is the most eccentric look: Mona Bismarck 's aqua green Balenciaga gown with sleeves of blooming pink petals from 1968. Le Freak, C
Testers have been told to expect several more release candidates over the next few weeks, but Microsoft is only looking for show stopper bugs and regressions from previous Windows releases.
If "being a science stopper" is a struct rule that disqualifies something from being science, then the big bang is not science! A long, boring post on everybody's favorite topic
To grass on a pusher ring police or contact Crimestoppers.
Marie shredded the book's pages, enclosed the shreds within gel capsules, put the capsules inside a glass druggist's bottle, and sealed the bottle with a cork stopper.
Off to a day of badgering and haggling in dark little storefronts full of stoppered glass bottles full of writhing mists. Valentines, part the first
Many parts of the Mediterranean are facing an environmental crisis as wine makers stop using traditional cork stoppers for their wine bottles.
Who are the game's best stoppers in the bullpen and which relievers prevent the most runs?
The stopper is too tight that it can't be withdrawn.
There shouldn't be any serious questions asked of the American stopper until he is given ample protection from his defenders.
It is too long and occasionally plodding, and, despite the effervescence of the cast, not every song is a show stopper.
Some sweets are equipped with surprising visual and flavour effects: gobstoppers change colour when sucked, sherbet fizzes in the mouth, and bubble gum is as much about bubbles as sweetness.
She stoppered the wine bottle
The heavy dark green bottle with the marble stopper has caught the fancy of several collectors, particularly foreign tourists frequenting the beach resorts in the capital city.
Over the years I had seen plants that were showstoppers; plants that made you examine them thoroughly; plants that made you find a book and read everything you could about them.
And, for the showstopper, the bakers must make a perfect charlotte russe, otherwise known as an 'ice-box cake'. Times, Sunday Times
The accumulation of brilliant hues in simple but densely repeated geometric patterns made her entry a showstopper.
There shouldn't be any serious questions asked of the American stopper until he is given ample protection from his defenders.
Despite being released by Carlisle United, the city's football fans still adore the shot stopper.
_Thampion (tampon_, Fr., a bung, cork, or plug of wood) is now written _tampion_, and signifies the stopper with which the mouths of cannon are closed up, to prevent the admission of rain, or sea water, whereby their charges might be rendered incapable of service. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1
By the time Chi's perky pop-reggae descends into an alarming grindie rock-out, you'll hate yourself for having liked it, but as she helpfully points out, "You should watch your lip/ Giving too much gyp/ You need a gobstopper baby". This week's new singles
Trad climbers use friends, chocks, stoppers and other passive and active gear instead.
The majority, some 495 examples, bore stamps on their rims and handles, and a number still had their stoppers, made of fired clay sealed with pozzolana, a kind of mortar. Roman Shipwreck Off Alexandria
Irradiation at a low oxygen concentration was carried out in a tightly stoppered quartz cuvette purged with nitrogen.
The 27-year-old powerful run stopper, with decent range and speed, could need up to 10 months to rehab.
There'll be wearing on parts of machinery, combat equipment and helicopters, but it will not be a showstopper.
Formal evening gowns are elegant and can be showstoppers.
Re the applicator issue, see also the French 'tampion' - a stopper for the barrel of a gun or cannon; but probably not Tampere which is known as Finland's Manchester ... although now I come to think of it ... Word Magazine - Comments
In one for the record books, it ships a doorstopper of a magazine this month for its annual Top 100 special.
It was a conversation stopper. Times, Sunday Times
And for the final showstopper they have to make 49 bakes in five hours with only one oven each. Times, Sunday Times
As the world's vintners move away from natural cork -- which some claim is responsible for "corking" spoilage of up to four percent of all wine -- to synthetic stoppers, animal conservationists are sounding alarm bells about the future of the endangered species that thrive in cork orchards. Boing Boing: December 29, 2002 - January 4, 2003 Archives
‘And The Hero Will Drown,’ ‘Burning Years’ and of course, ‘Anthem Of Our Dying Day’ are showstoppers.
It's easy to compile a list of big league pitchers who went from stopper to plugger.
They're those silly little stoppered vials - by the time you've got the lid off, most of the perfume is scattered across the carpet.
The showstopper was the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun. Times, Sunday Times
Pulling out the stopper, she poured the thick contents into a goblet and drank deep, almost draining the glass.
If, despite a low or nonexistent overhead, decent profits still manage to elude a microbusiness, that's not necessarily a showstopper.
Sheldon is a recognized birding site. Various species of mammals, amphibians and reptiles are common, and not the least of the show-stoppers is the American alligator.
Blue-flowered ‘Ascotiensis’ is another showstopper, while pristine white ‘John Huxtable’ looks especially striking grown through an evergreen.
Osiris, who also summoned the annual floods, is often represented in the shape of a "canonic" vase with a stopper in the shape of a crowned head. Al-Ahram Weekly Online
Breaks in aseptic technique can introduce microbial contamination into the vial via the needle, syringe, or rubber stopper.
Available in a bright blue with purple undertones, this plant is a show stopper when mass planted.
Though this summit is not a starter or restarter of the peace process but at least I hope it will become a stopper of the present violence. CNN Transcript - Sunday Morning News: Israeli Knesset Speaker Avraham Burg, Palestinian Representative to U.S. Hassan Abdel Rahman Discuss Middle East Crisis - October 15, 2000
His masterpiece to date is his American Rose beaded V-neck shift dress, a combination of nine colours, which was a show-stopper at MAFW '04.
So, if, whilst padding round in your hushpuppies on a tycoon's superyacht off the coast of, say, Montenegro, and a Russian Oligarch slips you a large brown envelope with US$ 500,000 to change the tariffs on, say, gobstopper imports, that is nobody's business but your own. Mendacious Mandy: Take Everything With A Pinch Of Salt
She plugged the stopper in the drain and began to fill the tub with hot steamy water.
Crime Stoppers offers cash rewards for such information.
The mammalian lagena, called a cochlea, is spiral-shaped and drills into the surrounding bone like a corkscrew opening some debased Australian vintage stoppered with bone.
So if you're after a real showstopper, this is the look for you. The Sun
It also comes in a squat Victorian apothecary-style bottle with cork stopper.
In the second half, York lay siege to the Rotherham goal but found the visiting shot-stopper still in inspired form with saves to deny Joe Dale, Jamie Hopcutt and Tom Corner.
She poured a measure of greenish, foul-smelling liquid from a tightly stoppered jar into the bowl and added a sprinkling of sweet scented dried herbs in as well.
If Broadway show tunes are your thing, the Jefferson Symphony Orchestra & the Arvada Chorale give us show-stoppers from Andrew Lloyd Webber and Leonard Bernstein after a heart-stopping performance of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. Tracy Shaffer: Arvada Alive With Music
A real floor-length showstopper we would all love to get our mitts on. The Sun
The dogs barked and strained at the end of their chains, wide brown collars cutting into jugulars, eyes, savage and bloodshot, bulging like gobstoppers.
Richardson held out the ball, with outstanding generosity, like someone trying to placate a recalcitrant child with a gobstopper.
Selling gobstoppers and sherbert dippers is a tough way to make a living. Times, Sunday Times
The spigot stem had an annular cutting edge to cut a cylindrical plug out of the bung or stopper by twisting the spigot.
In the main arena, bare-back riding daredevil Lorenzo, the Flying Frenchman, proved to be a showstopper as he performed equestrian stunts with his grey geldings.
They have practised the signature and the showstopper bakes, but when they lift that checked cloth and look at the technical challenge, they are in agony. The Sun
Crimestoppers rewards of up to £5,000 are being offered to anyone who supplies a new lead.
She put the stopper in the bath and began to fill it with lukewarm water.
This all-in-one filter, pourer, aerator and stopper aerates a whole bottle of wine in just 30 seconds, allowing dad to fully appreciate its fine flavour. Archive 2008-03-01
The increasing use of plastic stoppers in wine bottles is threatening the wildlife which relies upon the cork producing regions of Spain and Portugal.
A real floor-length showstopper we would all love to get our mitts on. The Sun
So far, it has sparked a massive increase in calls to Crimestoppers prompting a string of police raids and arrests.
And sure enough, when I push the stopper on the "inkwell" the glass tank turns red, and the doomed creatures become extinguished. “uncharted pages from a voyage of the beagle”
He's more of a shot stopper. The Sun
The winemaker, Pepi Umathum, told me that another benefit of the glass stopper is cost – he can buy both the glass stopper and the bottle for the cost of one cork. — The Perils of Fame - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
Put a drain stopper in the disposal so no water can flow out through the bottom Scripting News for 10/22/07 « Scripting News Annex
Her natural creativity and artistic talent make her home a real showstopper.
The 6ft 3in stopper can clearly handle himself. The Sun
All the talent in them went into the songs and the dialogue was left to stretch unnaturally between show-stoppers.
She nodded and let him have another swallow of whiskey before she took it from his unresisting fingers and shoved the stopper back into the bottle.
The real showstopper is Nathan Lane's ‘There's No Business Like Show Business.’
A bung, made of glass, plastic, rubber, earthenware, silicone, or wood, is a barrel's stopper, analogous to the cork of a bottle.
The event's show stopper was when the organisers released a dole of doves, white balloons and confetti from a helicopter as symbols of peace.
To prevent oxidation after bottling and before corking, he uses a blanket of inert gas, as do some winemakers and, like many winemakers, synthetic stoppers.
And despite his record, the 6ft stopper is just happy to be playing football at all. The Sun
The ends of the cork stoppers are then polished to present a smooth surface to the wine.
In any event, as a wine lover, I don’t care what the stopper is made out of as long as it works to protect the wine, does not add its own character and allows a gentle aging curve at temperatures that are also beneficial to wine. Corkfinger - Amorim, ReCORK America and cork recycling | Dr Vino's wine blog
The American stopper managed to bag a backstage pass and was blown away to meet his hero. The Sun
I now have images of Willy Wonka walking out of the factory and screaming, “And your next gobstopper is FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!” The Brass Ticket
Then there is the shy, self-effacing Chris, who electrifyingly takes over the stage, and, to my mind, sparks the whole proceedings with the showstopper, Old Fashioned Romance.
One especially exciting bathroom included replicas of old bottles with genuine antique stoppers made of silver and fashioned into old-time designs.
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He caught the bag a bit stiffly and this lump came up like a little gobstopper under his skin.
Afterwards one of them, a lisping seven-year-old by the name of Jimmy Poole, sidles up to him in his office and offers him a half-sucked gobstopper dug up from a fluff-filled corner of his pocket.
It is a hive mind of little tyrants who, despite their penchant for gobstoppers, can shred minds at will and have mankind on their list.
The stopper is so tight that it can't be withdrawn.
Ronaldinho promptly flighted the ball over Seaman and into the far corner of the net after spotting the England shotstopper had left his line.
Their contents were sealed with tiny stoppers, protected beneath gold, silver-gilt or silver screw caps resembling sewing thimbles.
Should I shock by using a conversation stopper? Times, Sunday Times
Collect them, then blow or shake away the debris, and put seeds in stoppered jars until next spring.
There were a number of small bugs which weren't show stoppers but concerned us nonetheless.
It was a dead-on show stopper that left me appreciating these California boys who may have lost some of their previous edge on the latest album but who can still play some amazing music!
Old double-winged aircraft and Spitfires practice their showstoppers over our valley before annual air shows.
The simplest procedure is to immerse the stoppered bottle to the required depth.
Defeats are always difficult to swallow but this one must leave a sizeable lump akin to an everlasting gobstopper lodged in the throat of York City.
This is to guarantee that if the handgun does discharge, the projectile will go directly into the bullet stopper.
Yeast is dispensed into it and it is then plugged before the bottle is stoppered with the usual crown cap.
Retailer Nordstrom teamed up with Wine Soirée to create the "Signature Series" set with the Soiree aerator, stand, case and vacuum pump wine preserver with stoppers. Mary Orlin: 12 Wine-Inspired Holiday Gifts
whiskey spilled from the unstoppered bottle
He is an excellent goal stopper and he has been known to try and take on opposing players with his amazing skills.
Well, I don't know what you call interruption, but this is a complete stopper; I can't make any impression with the pick, it is as hard as rock; and then comes some of those old walls that are rather harder than granite -- you may as well pick at a cart-load of pig iron. Varney the vampire; or, The feast of blood. Volume 3
Radiation could perhaps be a show-stopper because the environment in space - there's galactic cosmic rays.
The bottle is capped with its tight-fitting stopper when it is outside the desiccator so that moisture won't get inside. Archive 2007-08-01
Now, in theory at least, children could buy unlimited quantities of Spangles, gobstoppers and sweet cigarettes.
THE Aussie stopper got himself in a bit of a tangle a couple of times. The Sun
A high oil price is obviously a show stopper, since it hits consumer spending.
But of course, it's the big jaunty disco showstoppers at which she excels.
So Moulin Rouge's premise seems enticing at first, a musical that lives through popular rock songs, just as the musicals of their time were often written around show-stoppers already making the nightclub rounds.
Maybe thin, shaky male voices will come into style, but I was hoping more for a real show-stopper that never came.
Nearly every song on A Treasury is a show-stopper, and the track selection is fine, spotlighting Drake's weighty insights and limning the various complexions of his character.
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None of these cultural differences is in and of itself a showstopper.
My advice, come lunchtime, is look for a wheatsheaf painted beside a door and find yourself a bouchon, the traditional Lyonnais bistro named after the straw plugs once used as bottle-stoppers.
Her natural creativity and artistic talent make her home a real showstopper.
Long after natural "cures" such as shark cartilage and laetrile from peach pits flopped comes the first study of its kind to show that vitamin D is a potent cancer stopper.
The showstopper was the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun. Times, Sunday Times
I stood there puzzled for a minute or so with the tightly stoppered flask in my hand, holding it up to see what I could make of the stuff.
She ignored the tension of his frame as she carefully unstoppered a water bottle and brought it to his lips.
How we ever scraped the money together to buy gobstoppers and comics after all this outlay of our precious resources was down to odd jobs and paper rounds.
The 6ft 3in stopper can clearly handle himself. The Sun
The stopper in the barrel is called the bung, and the hole is called the bung hole. Archive 2008-09-01
When multiple doses are contained in a vial, each time another dose is given, a needle is inserted into the rubber stopper that seals the vial. Global Immunization: Vaccine Coverage is Variable
Rubber has very good flexibility and is outspread. After sulfuration , it comes relevant hardness, velvet surface, obtain each quality standard of medicine rubber stopper.
You crapper also speech most their planned marketing activities, oftenness of advertisements and unstoppered houses, modify the sort of photographs to be taken. Xml's Blinklist.com
He is hoping to collect sponsorship for his attempt to plough through the 1,205-page doorstopper over the next six weeks.
The plastic stopper is also recyclable - and can be used to reseal other similar bottles. The Sun
He easily holds his own with Kelly in their numbers together, and his ‘Make 'Em Laugh’ is a showstopper.
Unless we come up with a new technology for storing hydrogen, it's a showstopper.
It is hoped prisoners can provide information about unsolved cases and will call a free Crimestoppers number. Times, Sunday Times
The only real modern improvement upon the process has been in the area of storage; corks seal bottles better than fired-clay stoppers.
These were a dozen or so stoppered glass bottles containing a selection of Wakelate's most virulent and inventive poisons.

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