Sentence examples for A stumper from inspiring English sources

A stumper: many people met their watery graves in this week's Covers Contest.

That's a stumper," she said.

The first step — choosing a profile name — is a stumper.

But not long ago, an executive from Japan called with a stumper: Where, he asked, are the dancing clubs?

Defining art has always been a stumper: the births of impressionism, graffiti and pornography have flummoxed both critics and judges.

By Willing Davidson July 9, 2009 A stumper: many people met their watery graves in this week's Covers Contest.

Mr. Bent also made far fewer campaign appearances, while Mr. Suozzi was a tireless stumper on a circuit that included a 36-hour marathon at the end.

95D: I imagine this is a true stumper for a lot of us, although I had my eureka moment a while after I'd figured it out on the crosses.

And not incidentally, because "What's that?" is a classic stumper from kids.

DEADHEADS "A big stumper for growers of native California plants is the woolly bluecurls (Trichostema lanatum)," Ms. Arnold said.

One of those stats concerns the Opening Day no-hitter that Feller threw against the Chicago White Sox, in 1940, an unmatched feat that I always used to bring up in the form of a terrific stumper: "Name the only major-league game in which the players on one side all ended up with the same averages they'd begun with".