Sentence examples for stopped up and from inspiring English sources

Understanding your line of thinking can help you recognize where you might get stopped up and how your train of thought influences your decision-making process.

But it happened that my kitchen drainage was stopped up, and I was ill.

Often, Mr. Kraeutler said, all that is necessary is to check that your gutters aren't stopped up and that downspouts are at least four feet from the house, so that rainwater doesn't seep into basement walls or the foundation.

Bridgwater Docks, which had been used by a small amount of coastal shipping, were finally closed in 1971: the connection at the docks was stopped up, and the British Waterways Board were granted permission to cease maintaining the canal for navigation.

Giffard concluded: 'its Death, as I judged, proceeded partly from the streightness of the Passage (this Woman was very fat, by which the Vagina was very much stopped up) and partly from the largeness of the Shoulders and Head of the Child, so that it could not be brought out without difficulty'.

If your dog suddenly stops up and raise the ears, it has most likely heard something and is curious.

Floors are to be calked, windows covered with shields, radiator holes and mouseholes stopped up.

The heat is maintained by carefully stopping up entrance and exit holes.

Stirring stops up the porosity and prevents good slaking (soaking to mush).

It stops up your pores and the oil of the poison ivy does not get in your skin.

Result: virtually no chance of coming off and stopping up the laundry tub.