Sentence examples for stem from inspiring English sources
The word "stem" is correct and usable in written English. You can use this word as a verb or a noun to refer to the main trunk of a plant or tree, as well as a longer or more fundamental part or base of an object, concept, or idea, or to cut off the top of a plant or tree. Example sentence: The gardener trimmed the stem of the rosebush to encourage growth.
For the north's economic problems do not stem from a lack of tech-startups or an inability to cross the Pennines at lightning-quick speed; they are borne of successive crises of capitalism, each of which leaving behind their own uncompromising legacy.
The growth of nationalism in the UK is unwelcome and destructive; properly endorsing our membership of the EU would do much to stem the tide of disaffection.
The deaths of around 1,800 people in the Mediterranean so far this year has also led to increasing discussion of how best to stem the flow of migrants from North Africa.
Outlining his story in a matter-of-fact manner, the controlling killer told the operator: "I grabbed the knife and stabbed him in the back of the neck, I believe somewhere near the brain stem.
But a huge national and international response helped stem the spread.
This week, Nigerien legislators adopted a law calling for prison sentences of up to 30 years for smugglers of illegal immigrants in an attempt to stem the flow of migrants leaving Africa for Europe.
They would have preferred to donate the embryos to science, but at the time, embryonic stem cell research was banned, so that choice was off the table.
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