Sentence examples for for a stopper from inspiring English sources

To raise funds, she created a perfume, sold in a cobalt-blue bottle with intertwined snakes for a stopper.

After East passed, South rebid three hearts, asking for a stopper in that suit, and North ended the auction with three no-trump.

Before him, nearly everyone aimed for a show-stopper: Mr. Burke tearing into "Turn On Your Lovelight," Mr. Tyler yowling "King Bee, Ms. Raittt sliding through Elmore James's "Coming Home," the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion socking out R. L. Burnside's lovesick "Goin' Down South".

North rebid three spades to say that he had a fit for clubs and a stopper in spades but no stopper in hearts.

I have three decanters, two for table wines and one, with a stopper, for port.

It is thought that the loop acted as a stopper for the bulla, which may have contained a liquid, presumably perfume.

"But it can say to Cherry Parfait, 'I smell good, and you don't.' " This lack of scent is a stopper for me.

She is eaten by mosquitoes so large they leave nothing but her big toe, which the Cajun uses as a stopper for his rum bottle.

The diamond position was clear, for South had shown a stopper in the suit, and East would have led the suit if he could.

Specialized plastics and other artificial substances have supplanted cork in a number of its former uses, but cork has retained its traditional importance as a stopper for bottles of wine and other alcoholic beverages.

Falasco, a sophomore, was a stopper for the Eagles.