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Example sentences for "stuff"

Lexicographically close words:
studye; studyed; studyin; studying; stuf; stuffe; stuffed; stuffes; stuffiness; stuffing
  1. The glue's so thick and strong, after the soupy stuff you've been wading through, that you welcome the solid look of it.

  2. Perhaps the medicine I take so trustfully has contained some of the soporific stuff of dreams, and that is why the pain in my leg has been so trifling since the first day here.

  3. This innocent stuff can be pumped out quite easily, and is pumped out every day, into a gully, which we devoutly hope leads well into a Boche sap.

  4. Down here we really are learning something about oil-cans, mortars, and short range heavy stuff generally.

  5. Concrete floors were smoother, too, and the stuff made far better road surfacing.

  6. What they did with the stuff had been hard to believe at first.

  7. It was a great thing on the Marsh to be sent away for change of air, instead of just getting a bottle of stuff to take three times daily after meals.

  8. She had one letter from him, in which he told her that he had been over to Fairfield to look at the plough she was speaking of, but that it was old stuff and would be no use to her.

  9. Meantime she would go up, and see that he swallowed every drop of the herb tea--that was the stuff to give anyone who was ill on the Marsh, no matter what the doctor said .

  10. You are a funny ole girl--so silly and so sensible, so hard and so soft, such hot stuff and so respectable .

  11. All they had done there was to stuff her head with nonsense.

  12. You were made man and wife in Pedlinge church, as I saw with my own eyes, and I'll never believe as what was done then can be undone just by having some stuff written in the papers.

  13. The herb tea did not cure him, nor did the stuff the doctor gave him.

  14. Esther shuddered as she looked at this monstrosity, dressed out in a white apron over a stuff gown.

  15. Yes, the boy is cut out of the right stuff to get on," said Lousteau, who was dying of jealousy.

  16. Well, you will know the stuff I am made of one fine morning when you find your daughter disgraced!

  17. Esther rose, threw her arms round the priest's neck, laid her head on his breast, which she wetted with her weeping, kissing the coarse stuff that covered that heart of steel as if she fain would touch it.

  18. La Torpille is the only common prostitute in whom I ever found the stuff for a superior courtesan; she has not been spoiled by education--she can neither read nor write, she would have understood us.

  19. Never saw such stuff as this at Bleaden's or Birch's, or anywhere in the city.

  20. That is all very well so long as old pieces of stuff are all they call for, but it is a different matter to ask for clippings out of new and uncut rolls of cloth.

  21. Why didn't you ask me to pay for the stuff and done?

  22. Carrying stuff around the country to sell at auction?

  23. They won't be able to get any more stuff out now!

  24. And here is a bit of paper some of the stuff must have been wrapped in.

  25. I can't afford to lose forty-five dollars' worth of stuff at once.

  26. But if you want to get all of your stuff back you had better follow up this Yedley.

  27. Why, I would rather have gone home and got the money to pay for the broken stuff than have that happen.

  28. He kept on auctioning stuff off until one o'clock in the afternoon, when the crowd thinned out, being composed principally of folks who had come into the city to visit the circus.

  29. I don't think it was a fair deal to throw his stuff in the gutter.

  30. What do you take it she meant by that stuff about being friends, and telling us where she lived, and all that?

  31. She was far from realizing as yet that the uppermost feeling even now was not wounded love, but wounded pride; of what poor stuff she had been making a hero!

  32. Wiggin has filled 'em up with a lot o' stuff about what Carson said concernin' the White Cap raid t'other night.

  33. You bet he has," Bob declared; "he had a wad of it in big bills large enough to stuff a sofa-pillow with.

  34. I am not, born to bow and scrape, for there's stuff in me--character.

  35. It had been a day almost hot, surprising for the season, and she was dressed in conformity in some kind of thin stuff with little dots of black.

  36. I am going in to tear up the stuff I'm writing about that man I knew there in the prison.

  37. One of the funniest things that ever happened to me was that an editor of a popular magazine used to say that my stuff resembled Dickens, and when I wrote half-dime novels the readers used to write in and say the same.

  38. Will report on the other stuff you have here in a day or two.

  39. Don't be particular about how the stuff will look in print, but let'er go.

  40. I could make the actual stuff at once provided I had the materials, but it's a question of doing it in such a way that one can handle it safely for practical purposes.

  41. I propose that you should finish your experiments as soon as possible, make some of this explosive, and hand the actual stuff and the full secret of its manufacture over to us.

  42. Then I was in bed and somebody was rubbing me, rubbing me all over with some warm pungent stuff that seemed to take away the pain in my limbs and leave me just a tingling mass of drowsy contentment.

  43. But, oh, Neil, what appalling stuff it must be!

  44. I've made enough of the blessed stuff to blow up half Tilbury.

  45. I naturally thought he was going to stuff that desirable object into his pocket, but as it happened he did nothing of the kind.

  46. All I had to do was to dig a hole in the bank with a trowel that I had brought for the purpose, empty my stuff into that, and tip in the gunpowder on top.

  47. The stuff was quite safe to handle; that was one of its beauties.

  48. The stuff I am using is quite uninflammable.

  49. Kind of old-timey stuff down below here," he explained.

  50. The loss of pony transport in March 1911 obliged me to start later than I had intended, and obliged the limits of stuff transported to be narrowed.

  51. S, and considerably over a ton of stuff was landed.

  52. Hereupon I rent off hood and robe and found him a poor, mean creature that wept and moaned, wherefore I incontinent gagged him with stuff from his own habit and thereafter locked him securely into my fetters.

  53. Here's enough good stuff to make pocky corpses o' every cursed Spanisher in Nombre ere sunset.

  54. He said the shootin' had been done by the old man's son, and a lot more stuff like that.

  55. Next thing you'll be telling that sort of stuff to the girl.

  56. Mother wouldn't let us read the stuff in the papers.

  57. A fair young lady and widow is A rich piece of stuff rumpled: an old one's A blotting-paper a man shall never Write anything on--she sinks so.

  58. But pray, coz, what makes you stuff yourself so To appear big?

  59. If there's any good in my stuff, or any stuff in my goods, I'll get my reward some day.

  60. They show you the same old stuff year in and year out, and things that you can see almost any fine day in the Park during the season.

  61. For instance, your stuff when 'tis 'beholden Makes all the world look golden,' according to your anonymous correspondent.

  62. It wouldn't take long to fill up a book with stuff like that.

  63. It is not at all easy to stuff one's self so as to be a poet--there is so much to be put in one.

  64. To be sure they had all three to stuff themselves into a very narrow back seat, but that was better, they thought, than walking.

  65. When you go back to your dad tell him I said he needn't be afraid to show himself in Carson, or any other town around these diggings; because the tramp who robbed old Griffin's place was caught, and all the stuff found on him!

  66. That's why we had to keep our stuff under lock and key, with old Stump Griggs to watch it.

  67. Then in the morning all the stuff connected with the camp was carried down to the river and carefully loaded in the two boats, which, of course, were found safely just where they had been left.

  68. And with all our camp stuff to tote along, too.

  69. When it has reached its full size, it abandons its abode, pierces through the stuff which covers the hair, and constructs for itself with this stuff a case of silk, open only towards the end where the head is.

  70. That is what our naturalist saw when he placed larvae with blue cases, for instance, upon stuff of a red colour.

  71. Sometimes I think what good material The Alexander stuff would be, Aunt Sanna.

  72. Jim urged, pouring the sweet, choking stuff upon the little mask he held above the tortured face.

  73. The stuff had been so slow in its action that it had enabled me to look at life from a different viewpoint.

  74. While I partook of this fizzing beverage lightly, the reader will understand how readily the stuff affected my susceptible system and how quickly it went to my head.

  75. The show was over, and most of the animal tent stuff was loaded on the flat cars when the lion's cage broke.

  76. Over the blaze Uncle Tad and Mr. Brown squirted the stuff until finally the fire was out.

  77. Droop approached his visitor and slowly examined his clothing, gravely feeling the stuff between thumb and finger and even putting his hand inside the doublet to feel the lining.


  78. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stuff" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.