Sentences with stoop
stoop
S s - She was taller than he was and stooped slightly. [VERB]
- He was a tall, thin fellow with a slight stoop.
- Stoop1, in this connection, implies a descending in dignity, as by committing some shameful or immoral act [to stoop to cheating]; condescend implies a voluntary descent by one high in rank, power, etc. to act graciously or affably toward one regarded as his inferior [the general condescended to talk with the private]; deign is usually used in negative constructions or with such qualifications as hardly, barely, etc. and, hence, connotes unwilling or arrogant condescension [she scarcely deigned to answer me]
- He stooped to pick up the carrier bag of groceries. [VERB]
- He had not, until recently, stooped to personal abuse. [VERB + to]
- They stood together on the stoop and rang the bell.
- To stoop over a desk.
- To stoop from age.
- Don't stoop to argue with him.