stumper

How To Use stumper In A Sentence

• Sometimes crime investigation is so difficult, like the real stumper for Fort Worth, Texas, detectives.
• After last week's stumper, we'll end the round on an easy one.
• Heinz has made a habit of posing playful questions on its ketchup bottles “Are your french fries lonely?” and the next one may be a stumper: “Guess what my bottle is made of?” A new spin on the Heinz ketchup bottle
• During a House Energy & Commerce Committee hearing, Barton smugly posed a "stumper" to Energy Secretary Steve Chu: MNpublius.com
• I wonder how much, in 40 or 50 years' time, someone will fork out for Matt Prior's Porsche, the one of which the current England stumper spoke to Sachin Tendulkar at Trent Bridge four summers ago? The lost boys rescued from wilderness years | Richard Williams
• Although the idea for the Lachine Canal dates back to the earliest days of the ancien régime in New France, getting the project going was a real stumper.
• Former Australian stumper Ian Healy has praised young wicketkeeper Parthiv Patel, with whom he has been working with in recent months, and said the Indian teenager has a bright future.
• Giles was the more effective spinner but he wasn't exactly aided by his stumper.
• He is not a shuffler and nudger of the ball like many stumpers, but a classical batsman.
• That was a 'stumper' for the poor woman, who evidently did not understand one half of the sentence. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy