Sentence examples for be stopped up from inspiring English sources

"The toilet would always be stopped up".

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

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.

The procedure allows doctors to see how much blood is flowing and where the body's pipes may be stopped up, but the images produced are two dimensional and fail to pick up small blood vessels.

"He'd be stopping up his ears," she said.

— are stopped up with cigarettes.

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

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

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