Sentence examples for stop up from inspiring English sources

"stop up" is a correct and usable idiom in both spoken and written English.
It typically means "to close or block something in order to prevent something from coming out or going in." For example, "I used a bit of putty to stop up the crack in the window."

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stop up

verb

To fill a hole or cavity, or block an opening or passage, as with a plug.

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"And we cannot stop up a damn well".

Others with longer contribution records will still be able to stop up to three years earlier.

And after working up an appetite there, you might stop up the hill at La Rocca's.

In protests, the inmates would all stop up the toilets and repeatedly flush them.

John seems to have become Maya to stop up a hole in the heroic American trope.

These are desolate, homeless prophecies that might make men stop up their ears and drive them mad.

Some use turmeric to stop up holes in the radiator — anything to avoid servicing with expensive and increasingly rare parts.

"Make a proper seal, stop up the breath, apply pressure, even and firm like packing a snowball".

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Where does it stop?" (UP-4).

Skating, passing, non-stop up and down action.

11.46am: Hello all There's no stop-up for Team GB's storming run to the top of the medal table*, with Beth Tweddle up next in the gymastics women's uneven bars final.

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