Sentence examples for stamp up from inspiring English sources

Faulkner aficionados descended on Oxford in late July for the University of Mississippi's annual Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference, to listen to scholarly papers and examine the postage stamp up close.

You do not stamp up and down on the rice (this doesn't accomplish the prying and twisting that is needed to rip the "hulls" off).

Requiring 18 feet of reinforced concrete beneath it, this press, made by the Minster Machine Co., weighs more than 650,000 pounds and delivers three times that much force with each mighty stamp (up to 30 per minute -mostly cutting out the undercarriages of autominute -mostly

I'd be stamping up and down even if I was in a straitjacket.

Shiva creates new life by stamping up a storm; Vishnu does it by lying down in a milky sea.

In the Book Review Terrence Rafferty called Banville's imagery -- a thunderstorm is "the sky stamping up and down in a fury, breaking its bones" -- "almost numbingly gorgeous".

Others examine it intently or shake it violently while stamping up and down and emitting primal bellows of disbelief, like the apes confronted with the monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

The plot is minimal; instead, the novel's drama takes place in Banville's remarkable imagery — a thunderstorm is "the sky stamping up and down in a fury, breaking its bones," and distant breakers are "like a hem being turned endlessly by a sleepy seamstress".

Immediately after the younger bulls were removed Yamba was stamping up dust, raging at his removal from the harem of on-heat cows and heifers.

You can delete this file at any time, after the document has been fully stamped up.

And last year's wedding roses stamp rang up $47 million over eight months.