Sentence examples for stopper like from inspiring English sources

But because they do not have one dominant stopper like Ray Lewis, Fox uses a variety of attacks to create a defense that is almost as smothering as Baltimore's.

He realized he could not win the Continent's premier trophy with a hulking, traditional British stopper like Larry Lloyd.

Such young singers have absorbed the lessons of show-stoppers like Whitney Houston and Ms. Carey but turn their self-confidence toward competitiveness instead of noblesse oblige.

The CD ranges in style from "Danglin'," a country pop song sung by the cabaret performer Johnny Rodgers; show stoppers like "My True Love," delivered by Philip Chaffin; and pure ballads like "Simple," sung by Liz Callaway.

Last season, Indiana was the national title runner-up, and well-regarded defensive stoppers like Oklahoma's Hollis Price and Maryland's Steve Blake and Juan Dixon failed to take Coverdale off his game.

Would be show-stoppers like "The Night They Invented Champagne" fall flat.

With tarts and truffles, cookies and creme and shower-stoppers like Sachertorte and Costigan's childhood favorite, Brooklyn Blackout Cake, it's a chocolate orgy that's absolutely plant-based.

That's where you get show-stoppers like No Redeeming Social Value shitting on every other band in the scene from the black guy's backyard tiki bar, John Joseph of the Cro-Mags falling in and out of a thick southern accent, and Ezec rambling for nearly 20 minutes about his dog then calling his mom, all the while high out of his fucking mind.

Even if your admission goes well, a big show-stopper like serenading someone in front of the whole restaurant can be a hard act to follow.

So you can give him this bottle stopper and be like, "Remember that time?" and the joke is, of course, that he remembers.

This faceted and angular yellow (marketed as "sunshine") glass bottle with its elaborate stopper looks like something from a Cubist still life.