Sentence examples for was stopped up from inspiring English sources

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

The first well was stopped up, there being nothing at hand in which to store or transport the stuff; the Coremaggiore region also contains huge deposits of methane gas, on which the industry of the entire country could function for the next three-quarter of a century; and to put it mildly "a profound transformation of Italy's economy is about to take place".

After an endless layover in Pittsburgh, Ms. Buckley finally boarded a plane to La Guardia Airport -- realizing, now, "that my left ear was stopped up," she said, "so I felt as if I was underwater, and had no hearing in that ear".

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.

— are stopped up with cigarettes.

"The toilet would always be stopped up".

A pump will break or the plumbing will be stopped up.

A tenant pointed to a sink that had been stopped up for weeks.

I most likely viewed the Waffen S.S. as an élite unit that was sent into action whenever a breach in the front line had to be stopped up.

People are still fixing things when the lines clog up or three of the four toilets in the house are stopped up.

However, as an important part of epidemiology, the studies on discrete-time epidemic models have never been stopped up to now.