Sentence examples for official stamping from inspiring English sources

An acquaintance of mine was arriving from Colombia, and a weary immigration official, stamping her passport, murmured politely, "I suppose you've come for the football".

Not only has Groff's novel, by the Wall Street Journal's count, landed on more US year-end best-of lists than any other work of fiction, but Amazon has made it official, stamping its endorsement on Fates and Furies as the retailer's book of the year.

While service is sometimes a bit slow — my checkout took 15 minutes, and involved much official stamping of a wad of receipts — the staff was friendly and helpful.

Twenty years later, Gov. Ed Herschler, crediting Douglas Herrick with the animal's creation, designated Wyoming the jackalope's official stamping grounds.

A hassle, but now you're near the payoff: After the official does the official stamping of your forms, your refund is nearly a done deal.

The official stamped his passport and said, "Welcome to America".

Again, she felt she had done nothing wrong as the official stamped "Invalid" on the pages.

Mobile phone videos broadcast on television showed officials stamping several ballots without a voter present.

I picture a grey table lined with soulless officials stamping "Rejected" on request after request for life-saving treatments.

You're shoved off a bus and sent in the direction of a basic building with three yawning officials stamping passports.

But many are surprised, upon going through United States Customs, to discover that Cuban officials stamped their passport with a small, almost illegible mark on Page 16.