Sentence examples for became stumped from inspiring English sources
But when Von Dohlen and her student Shawn Kohler examined the mealybugs' so-called "symbiotic spheres," long assumed to be host structures that housed bacteria, they became stumped.
But it was then I became stumped.
But the 1984 Denison University graduate became stumped while filling out Stanford Law School's application when the essay question read, 'Why do you want to be an attorney?" "I really had no idea," Carell told Princeton's graduating seniors.
They seem to have become selfie stumps.
Windshields, rather than headlamps, make do for eyes, radiator grilles for mouths, and — far more awkwardly — wheels become rubbery stumps of limb, useful for nudging open garage doors but not much else.
"Thank God on Sept. 11 of 2001 we didn't have a president who stood there and wrung his hands and wondered what America had done wrong to provoke those attacks," Governor Pataki said on Sunday morning, in what has become a stump speech for him when he speaks about Mr. Bush.
The opposite of the children's book, The Giving Tree, do not allow yourself to become a stump.
When Sessions spoke to local cops and federal agents in Richmond, Virginia, on March 15, the former Alabama senator delivered what's become a stump speech of sorts.
Perhaps there are tricky timing issues: obviously one would have to do the analysis early enough in the RNAi process that the cilia had not yet become short stumps.
The stump became a symbol of my own sexual failure.
In the common bile duct excision model, the proximal stump became markedly dilated after excision, leading to death within four weeks after the operation [ 78].
