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Meanings of stooped in English
Having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect.
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Examples for "crooked"
Examples for "crooked"
1
The lines of the mouth were crooked; the lips, thick and red.
2
Consider, for example, tall buildings that suddenly look crooked in the photo.
3
The crooked path that led me to love: How did it happen?
4
The crooked cannot be made straight; and the wanting cannot be numbered.
5
No, but I don't want to see a crooked election, he said.
1
The merman hunched his slim shoulders in the shrug of his race.
2
Are thousands of them hunched at the wheel unable to straighten up?
3
The boy was hunched in the corner, arms folded around his stomach.
4
He was barely five feet tall, hunched right over but powerfully built.
5
Grey stepped in front of Foster, who hunched ready for another attack.
1
He was still red in the face, from the exertion of stooping.
2
In stooping to pick it up I lost sight of the man.
3
People get frustrated with waiting and they end up stooping to politics.
4
Follow us; and, stooping down, he cut the cords which bound them.
5
He was standing defiantly over the stooping figure of the assistant manager.
1
Ay, lass, but not with a round-backed drift like that at the bottom.
2
They came upon two schools of round-backed river monsters.
3
Mr. Lord sat in his round-backed chair, smoking a pipe, on his knees an evening paper.
4
I asked him to take a seat, and seated myself in my round-backed writing chair beside my desk.
5
A small, round-backed man, with a shag of black hair upon his face, was sitting by the window.
1
Constant stooping over the kitchen range had made her a little round-shouldered.
2
His posture went from erect and square-shouldered to slightly slumped and round-shouldered.
3
She had always seemed such a mouse: round-shouldered, and small, and meek.
4
Tcheprakov was not of robust constitution: he was narrow-chested, round-shouldered, and long-legged.
5
At home she was a little round-shouldered drudge in her mother's service.
Usage of stooped in English
1
Maurice was daunted; he stooped and raised the weapon in his hand.
2
In fear, in fact almost terror, I stooped down behind the hedge.
3
He suddenly stooped over me; and whispered his name in my ear.
4
She stooped over the dory and lifted the baby in her arms.
5
I stooped to my knees; I looked under the mass of stone.
6
Swiftly Peggy stooped and unfastened the little jade god from far-off China.
7
With his in hand, the master stooped and inspected the exposed wall.
8
Fred nodded sharply, and the chauffeur stooped to throw in the clutch.
9
It fluttered close to her feet; she stooped and picked it up.
10
The officer stooped and pulled apart the blanket where the head was.
11
He stooped and lifted in his hand one of the disordered tresses.
12
In the deepest shadow of it, he stooped suddenly and kissed her.
13
The man spied the pen upon the floor and stooped for it.
14
Halting beside the red cloth he stooped and turned over the trinkets.
15
So he stooped and gathered the drenched form up in his arms.
16
He approached the Bush, and stooped to pluck one of the Roses.
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Stooped through the time
Stooped across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
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