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.
• Elena, the taller one, had to stoop.
  — Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
• Tim stooped down and put his hand on the little buck’s horns.
  — William J. McRae, Outdoor Life, 26 Nov. 2025
• 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
• The waiter stooped, took the knife from my hand, leaned close, and cut a delicate line down the spine.
  — Kendra Atleework, Longreads, 12 Mar. 2026
• Twain, of course, never stooped to fart jokes or hunchback gags in pursuit of a giggle.
  — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 30 Jan. 2026
• Passengers stoop inside and squeeze through the narrow aisle.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2012
• Even the Celtics wouldn’t have stooped so low as to try to enact a ban on an opposing team’s fans.
  — Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 9 May 2026
• 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
• Winger Aron Winter pulled back the cross, and Bergkamp stooped to head home their third of the game.
  — Michael Cox, New York Times, 11 May 2026
• Yet Burr never stoops to crudity.
  — Bob Strauss, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Mar. 2026
• Both actors strive to never stoop to that ever-dropping standard.
  — Claudia Puig, USA TODAY, 7 Jan. 2022
• Helm’s valley, though it is being grazed by herds, hunted across by packs and stooped upon from above, seems a bit – dull.
  — Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
• Audra stooped down to hug Christina, 3, who donned a fuzzy white jacket with bear-like ears on the hood.
  — Miami Herald, 25 June 2026
• Gene rolls a cigarette, then stoops down to collect the tobacco that’s fallen to the floor.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 4 Oct. 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
• Pumpkin painting at Slash Run Does your home or stoop need a seasonal touch-up?
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2023
• Daniels said, arguing that no past Republicans would’ve stooped to such a level.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2025
• Dier was stooping slightly but the Portuguese midfielder’s leg was at least chest-high.
  — Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
• The countertop is 34-inches tall, which will reduce the need for bending or stooping.
  — Renee Freemon Mulvihill, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 June 2023
• But Popes don’t generally stoop to Tolkien-quote battles with those who dislike them, so why now?
  — Nate Anderson, ArsTechnica, 26 May 2026
• For instance, when attempting to lift a heavy object off the floor, most of us stoop from the waist, which is an injury-inviting posture.
  — Payal Dhar, IEEE Spectrum, 10 Sep. 2021
• To reduce bending and stooping, the beds should be at least 36 inches tall, said Aguilar in the news release.
  — News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Aug. 2025
• Grow tomatoes, vegetables, herbs, or your favorite flowers comfortably without the need to bend or stoop.
  — Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 11 June 2026
• As ransomware actors stoop ever lower, decisive action can't come quickly enough.
  — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 1 June 2021
• 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

stoop

2 of 2 noun

• The guy in the ad who’s sitting on a stoop?
  — David Weigel, semafor.com, 25 Mar. 2026
• 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
• Set on a sunny stoop and water when the soil dries.
  — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 30 May 2026
• There was blood spatter on her front stoop, and the blood turned out to be hers.
  — Paige Williams, New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2026
• On one stoop, a man gently plucked a guitar.
  — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2026
• Set it on your front stoop for a welcoming fall porch.
  — Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Sep. 2025
• Joe says Kathy’s not home and to leave the package on the stoop.
  — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2025
• His neighbors were sitting on the stoop.
  — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2026
• The woman with her bare feet in the soil, sitting on a stoop or in the grass.
  — Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026
• Teenagers pass the time scrolling on their phones on an apartment building’s stoop.
  — Megan Specia, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
• My neighbors had shovelled their stoops.
  — Naaman Zhou, New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2026
• More students were smoking across the street in a doorway and on a stoop.
  — Ashley Southall, New York Times, 26 May 2023
• Boan stoops to scoop up trash — some left by humans, some from wildlife —– along the boardwalk.
  — Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2026
• Both the stoop and the pull-out depend on equal parts power and restraint.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026
• On a stoop next door, a gray-haired couple sat clutching each other’s hands.
  — Zachary Small, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2023
• Before picking your plants, though, think about how much sun your stoop gets throughout the day.
  — Nellah Bailey McGough, Southern Living, 12 May 2026
• Just off the back of the house toward the main bedroom, a stoop steps down to your very own courtyard.
  — Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 31 Mar. 2026
• The thief is not caught, and the story is told on a porch stoop to another woman.
  — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2026
• 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
• Hang out on the stoop for a while and learn something new about your coworkers and neighbors.
  — PCMAG, 23 Feb. 2022
• 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
• Why all the sneering and haughty body language from the front stoop of a cinderblock double-wide?
  — Lo Patrick, PEOPLE, 14 July 2026
• 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
• 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
• Vows were exchanged on their stoop, and the couple leaned on the hood of a car to listen to the speeches.
  — Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 28 June 2026
• 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
• 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
• Add plenty of pumpkins and other fall decor items for the ultimate cozy stoop.
  — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Oct. 2022
• Seven or eight people are sitting on the stoop or standing around the driveway.
  — Seth Harp, Rolling Stone, 21 Dec. 2021