Sentence examples for stump in from inspiring English sources

The plant wilts, breaks, and dies, leaving a stump in which the borers pupate.

I think of him behind the plate as well: a thinking bookend, a stump in charge.

Last September Mr. Bouchard went on the stump in the province advocating independence.

Earlier this month, he joined her on the stump in his home state.

Green fig leaves are sprouting up from the dirt near the tiny stump in her garden.

But compare her with, say, John Kerry, who was hardly electrifying on the stump in 2004.

Roger Smith said, "holding on to a stump in a raging river"?

Mr. Bloomberg, in his first bid for re-election, traveled to the Catskill region to stump in 2005.

Instead, he campaigned the old-fashioned way, spending 15 weeks on the stump in the state before the caucuses.

On Wednesday, Mr. Brown was on the stump in northwestern England in advance of the national election next week.

Barnburner "I know where the rats in the barn are," shouted Al Gore on the stump in Muskegon, Mich.