Used in a Sentence

stumping

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for stumping.

Editorial note

Steadfastly stumping for one paradigm over the other is no more useful than being a vim/emacs zealot.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

(cricket) The act of somebody being stumped.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of stumping gathered in one view.

noun

(cricket) The act of somebody being stumped.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for stumping.

noun

(cricket) The act of somebody being stumped.

Example sentences

1

Steadfastly stumping for one paradigm over the other is no more useful than being a vim/emacs zealot.

2

There's a lot of context that made me assume you were talking about stumping them on technical questions.

3

One thing for sure is that C++ aborts on failed new instead of stumping on unallocated memory.

4

There were thousands of people stumping and many people donating tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars.

5

This is a far cry from stumping up that amount of actual cash required for research.

6

Even if you do home cooking, feeding and stumping up bus fares for an average of 20 people a day ain't cheap.

7

The next hard part is stumping up the courage to take legal action.

8

Don't remember hearing neighbors unless they raised an extreme ruckus (usually getting drunk and yelling at each other or kids stumping screaming while playing).

9

Not the learning to code bit, or the paying a solicitor bit, or the stumping up for a designer to do the branding bit...

10

I've done more to help sick people I don't know than the vast majority of people stumping for government run healthcare.

11

But current consoles don't, and no amount of OpenGL stumping by Valve will change that, because OpenGL solves a problem the consoles have never had.

12

It's not as though anyone else was stumping the cash.

Quote examples

1

Now, you need to "prove" you're already a member, by stumping up the cash.

2

The only "approval" required was in the form of investors stumping up cash.

3

Removing CO2 is an endothermic ("energy-intensive") process, and therefore hard; moreover, a lot of our energy-making just makes more CO2, thereby stumping any CO2 removal attempt.

4

I want to know "Here's something that is stumping us.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use stumping in a sentence?

Steadfastly stumping for one paradigm over the other is no more useful than being a vim/emacs zealot.

What does stumping mean?

(cricket) The act of somebody being stumped.

What part of speech is stumping?

stumping is commonly used as noun.