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US
/ˈstəmpɪŋ/
]
[ UK /stˈʌmpɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /stˈʌmpɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- campaigning for something by making political speeches (stump speeches)
How To Use stumping In A Sentence
- Haley walked into the kitchen and two minutes later Trevor came stumping into the kitchen.
- Dean has most of the Hollywood glamour; both Martin Sheen and Rob Reiner were here stumping for him in recent days.
- He went from wrestling in tights and a feather boa to stumping across the state in jeans and a leather jacket discussing policy with legislators in suits and ties.
- Call me silly, but I just don't care whether or not a candidate lugs a spouse along while he or she is stumping for votes.
- I hope these socks keep Miss Phoebe's feet warm, as she is stumping around her house already.
- Anya resumed scouring the floor for her missing shoe, walking with a stumping gait.
- Clark made two stumpings and did not concede many byes, so he may have had a slight grievance.
- Easts wicket keeper Dale Box did well with the gloves, stumping two batsmen, one off the bowling of Jobson and another off David Wells.
- President Bush stumping in Columbus, Ohio, also, John Kerry, John Edwards stumping in Saint Louis, Missouri.
- Mr Bush was stumping in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Iowa and New Mexico today, before a crowning home-state rally in Dallas and a night at his Crawford ranch.