How to Use stoop in a Sentence

stoop

1 of 2 verb

• She stooped down to hug the child.
• He had to stoop to pick it up.
• He tends to stoop as he walks.
• He really did that? I didn't think he could stoop so low.
• Don’t want surgery but not prepared to shave your dome or stoop to a toupee?
  — Horacio Silva, WSJ, 5 Aug. 2022
• Bowlsby spoke like a man who didn’t have to stoop to that level on his way out.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 July 2022
• Vance is stooping to a new low in sucking up to Donald Trump.
  — Edith Olmsted, The New Republic, 2 Nov. 2023
• After all, why would the King of Horror ever stoop so low?
  — Scott Nover, Quartz, 21 Apr. 2023
• Her skin bled from being rubbed by the constraints, the latex made her face swell, and her back throbbed from being stooped.
  — Lexi Pandell, WIRED, 31 Aug. 2023
• Another stooped to fill a handcart with rocks, then pushed it 70 yards along the watery shaft, back into the light.
  — Gerry Shih, Washington Post, 24 May 2023
• Gene rolls a cigarette, then stoops down to collect the tobacco that’s fallen to the floor.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 4 Oct. 2023
• Passengers stoop inside and squeeze through the narrow aisle.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2012
• Pumpkin painting at Slash Run Does your home or stoop need a seasonal touch-up?
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2023
• The countertop is 34-inches tall, which will reduce the need for bending or stooping.
  — Renee Freemon Mulvihill, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 June 2023
• Both actors strive to never stoop to that ever-dropping standard.
  — Claudia Puig, USA TODAY, 7 Jan. 2022
• Tourists wait for streetcars alongside people stooped over and swaying in a fentanyl-addled haze.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2023
• Local residents stooped under the low ceiling and wound their way through stalactites, and some made the belly-crawl to the deeper reaches of the cave and the early paintings there.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 10 Mar. 2023
• Here's how to join the Teal Pumpkin movement: 1) Paint a real or faux pumpkin teal or purchase a teal pumpkin online or at a local store and place it on your front porch or stoop.
  — Taylor Mead, House Beautiful, 23 Aug. 2023
• The implication being that Americans would never stoop so low as to coordinate a campaign to game the system and cheat their way to the top.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 17 June 2021
• Oddest of all, there’s little sense of what’s at stake in any of these arcs — not even Lasher’s, though evidently his goals are vile enough that some of the Mayfairs will stoop to unthinkable acts to stop him.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Jan. 2023
• Oro, though, is clearly a peaceful giant — big and friendly, just as Roald Dahl would have had it — stooping low to the earth to better appreciate nature at a kid’s eye level.
  — oregonlive, 5 Sep. 2023
• With nothing to eat and no sunlight to help new crops grow, Ihei and the other villagers stoop to increasingly low levels of desperation, with only blind faith to guide them along.
  — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Oct. 2022
• The Mushroom Kingdom is another matter, its flavors bright and intense yet somehow not stooping to the saccharine tone of a Thomas Kinkade painting.
  — Pat Padua, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2023
• Farm workers were required to use the tool to thin and weed, forcing them to stoop during long hours in the sunny fields, causing debilitating back and spinal deformities.
  — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2023
• Apparently freed from adult supervision, Salih’s students don mismatched shoes, dangle from decrepit balconies, and stoop to the street to dote on stray cats.
  — Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2022
• There’s a persistently stoic air to his stooping melancholy that only rarely gives way to a mischievous smile or a sudden, strident, slightly embarrassing flare of anger.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 26 May 2023
• Manchevski seems to be commenting on how the needs of the individual and those of the couple are forever in conflict, but his observations often stoop to the level of caricature.
  — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Oct. 2022
• But then, my reaction turned to anger — not directed at those who would stoop to vigilante violence, but to the Republican leadership that stokes this behavior.
  — Star Tribune, 12 Jan. 2021
• As ransomware actors stoop ever lower, decisive action can't come quickly enough.
  — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 1 June 2021
• The Irish actor gives you a genuinely sympathetic, not-too-bright hero without stooping to clichés or sentimentality.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2023

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stoop

2 of 2 noun

• Melton stoops and, for most of the film, smiles like a love robot.
  — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
• Leave your date on the stoop and give your apartment a last-minute spritz.
  — Tatjana Freund, ELLE, 1 Feb. 2023
• Then the aluminum door to the house banged and my mother, Nurse Vivian, stood on the top of the stoop.
  — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Apr. 2021
• More students were smoking across the street in a doorway and on a stoop.
  — Ashley Southall, New York Times, 26 May 2023
• One day, Willy arrived early and sat on the front stoop, waiting for the shop to open.
  — Richard Mertens, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Mar. 2022
• Teenagers pass the time scrolling on their phones on an apartment building’s stoop.
  — Megan Specia, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
• Nine-year-old Thomas Perez and his younger sister were able to step into the kayak straight from their stoop.
  — Clio Chang, Curbed, 11 Jan. 2024
• Stood on the stoop and talked to her in that beautiful Colombian accent of his.
  — Junot Díaz, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
• Sit outside—in a back yard, on a stoop, on your windowsill—and let the heat index try its damnedest.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2023
• Jesse Jackson sat on what looked like a brownstone stoop.
  — Janell Ross, Time, 18 July 2023
• Out on the stoop, standing in the snow, was Dasani’s stepfather, Supreme, a 37-year-old barber.
  — New York Times, 28 Sep. 2021
• Serigne Mbaye on the stoop of his Magazine Street restaurant.
  — Elazar Sontag, Bon Appétit, 13 Sep. 2023
• Hang out on the stoop for a while and learn something new about your coworkers and neighbors.
  — PCMAG, 23 Feb. 2022
• The best stoops are large enough for two people to stand on with some cover from the elements and for doors to swing open.
  — Viveka Neveln, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Feb. 2023
• Enough of seeing your still-green grass coated with frost, or the pumpkins rotting on the front stoop.
  — John Tlumacki, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Dec. 2021
• The man in the front passenger seat was able to walk out of the car and was handcuffed and taken to sit on a stoop near Witt’s office.
  — oregonlive, 19 Apr. 2022
• Smith then grabbed a bag of trash on the front stoop and walked toward the dumpsters on the east side of the building where cameras could no longer see her.
  — Katie Campione, PEOPLE.com, 18 Jan. 2022
• On the back stoop, officers found Gentry with burns and a gunshot wound.
  — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Feb. 2024
• The second officer, Justin Beckles, stood just outside the home on the front stoop.
  — Ashley Remkus | [e-mail], al, 6 May 2021
• On a stoop next door, a gray-haired couple sat clutching each other’s hands.
  — Zachary Small, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2023
• After clearing the water line, Kane and Cunningham sat on the stoop to chat.
  — Wes Enzinna, Harper’s Magazine , 5 Jan. 2023
• From inside your home or from your front stoop, you are set to mix with fellow Brush Parkers.
  — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 29 May 2021
• There's children going to school every day, from sleeping on a church stoop or in a car.
  — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 10 Sep. 2023
• Heather and Whitney huddle on the stoop to book a Delta flight while everyone else boards the party bus to the private plane.
  — Olivia Crandall, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2021
• The highlight came when a young peregrine falcon made a full stoop in excess of 100 mph on a flock of a half dozen pigeons.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Oct. 2022
• This is a long way of saying my stoop is my favorite place to celebrate the runners.
  — Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Oct. 2023
• Place tall glass lanterns filled with white pillar candles just off the front stoop to create a warm winter glow.
  — Kaylei Fear, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Nov. 2023
• But as Grant sat on his stoop Monday afternoon, garbage still hadn’t been hauled away.
  — Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2021
• Kids race through the spray of a fire hydrant and families barbecue on their front stoops.
  — Tyrone Beason, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
• Seven or eight people are sitting on the stoop or standing around the driveway.
  — Seth Harp, Rolling Stone, 21 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024