How to use "stump" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "stump" in popular movie and book plots

  • Then Allnutt makes a new propeller blade out of scrap iron and bolts it to the stump of the old blade.  - The African Queen (novel)
  • Later, Ivan comes across Nastenka in the woods, ordered to pour water on a stump to make flowers grow in it.  - Jack Frost (1964 film)
  • The next morning they awake to find Sam gone, having hidden himself in a hollow tree stump to avoid holding them up.  - Kokoda (film)
  • Suddenly, Legion rises up and fires laser whips from her stump into Gamera.  - Gamera 2: Attack of Legion
  • When he is fixing up the house, he digs up a tree stump that looks vaguely like a baby.  - Little Otik
  • Barin and Flash take turns sticking their hands into a hollow stump with a giant scorpion-like Wood Beast inside.  - Flash Gordon (film)
  • Something protects him, and he guesses from the stump of Morda's little finger that it is the polished bone.  - Taran Wanderer
  • The ape gestures its stump at Severian, wanting him to do something with it, but Severian does not know what.  - The Claw of the Conciliator
  • Flame, a la Delilah, intends to seduce Bottomley to find out his Achilles' heel, a subject that will stump him.  - Champagne for Caesar
  • The Princess and her younger brother end up being washed away from their parents and come out of a tree stump alone and wet.  - The Old Man of Lochnagar
  • While they sleep, the Firebird directs Ivan to a tree stump where the casket with the egg containing Koschei's soul is hidden.  - The Firebird
  • Beowulf attacks and kills Grendel by stabbing him through the stump where his arm once was.  - Beowulf (1999 film)
  • When only a stump remains for the tree, she is not happy, at least at that moment.  - The Giving Tree
  • The bloody stump on the end of her arm, signifying a traumatic amputation.  - On My Way to Paradise
  • Torgo runs off into the darkness, waving the burning stump that remains.  - Manos: The Hands of Fate
  • He then wraps it around Ben's body but is crushed by a large tree stump barrelling down the river.  - The Naked Spur

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