Sentence examples for stopping up from inspiring English sources

The other option is what Mr. Suttles called a "junk shot," which he likened to stopping up a toilet.

10.50pm BST Kaymer's birdie effort doesn't drop, but it was a fine effort, dancing around the rim of the cup and stopping up, the awkward pimpled spherical get.

Hand in hand with the spread of new private estates has been the closure of public highways and public rights of way under an obscure piece of planning law, known as "stopping up orders".

Many Parisians formed the resolution of making a kind of repetition of "reveillon" by stopping up to a late supper preparatory to watching for any outward sign of the passage of the earth through the comet's tail.

By denying ourselves access to our own inner worlds, we are stopping up the well of our imagination, that which raises us above the drudge and grind of mere survival, that which makes us human.

And just as Toby closed the door behind her, abruptly stopping up the flood of light from inside, she put her weight down clumsily on her sprained ankle, missing the bottom step and slipping heavily on the wet stone.

FEELING a little stopped up?

— are stopped up with cigarettes.

"The toilet would always be stopped up".

"Stop up toilets" with sponges.

But Sessions stopped up the works.