Sentence examples for are stopped up from inspiring English sources

— are stopped up with cigarettes.

People are still fixing things when the lines clog up or three of the four toilets in the house are stopped up.

In one of the exhibition's strongest galleries, we see the bottom half of a woman's form made out of concrete, and her holes do they scream for daddio?—are stopped up with cigarettes.

By denying ourselves access to our own inner worlds, we are stopping up the well of our imagination, that which raises us above the drudge and grind of mere survival, that which makes us human.

"The toilet would always be stopped up".

But it happened that my kitchen drainage was stopped up, and I was ill.

A pump will break or the plumbing will be stopped up.

A tenant pointed to a sink that had been stopped up for weeks.

I most likely viewed the Waffen S.S. as an élite unit that was sent into action whenever a breach in the front line had to be stopped up.

After an endless layover in Pittsburgh, Ms. Buckley finally boarded a plane to La Guardia Airport -- realizing, now, "that my left ear was stopped up," she said, "so I felt as if I was underwater, and had no hearing in that ear".

The first well was stopped up, there being nothing at hand in which to store or transport the stuff; the Coremaggiore region also contains huge deposits of methane gas, on which the industry of the entire country could function for the next three-quarter of a century; and to put it mildly "a profound transformation of Italy's economy is about to take place".