Sentence examples for been stumped from inspiring English sources

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been stumped

noun

The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb.

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And they'd been stumped.

Stanford University

He has never been stumped.

The New Yorker

Otherwise he would have been stumped.

The Guardian - Sport

But he had been stumped on how to frame them.

The New York Times - Travel

Claire Rayner herself would have been stumped by that one.

The Guardian

If anyone had asked her the names of her neighbors, she would have been stumped.

The New York Times

How many times in a conversation have you been stumped by a question?

The New York Times - Tech

Q. Have you ever been stumped about how to test something?

The New York Times

The machine has never been stumped but is subject to breakdowns under pressure.

The New Yorker

Reimbursements for everything from manure to Maltesers have been stumped up tax free.

The Guardian - Opinion

How could Freud have been stumped by a movement built around dreams and sex?

The New York Times - Arts

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