A stopped (or stopped-up) nose. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Soon the ambulance had arrived, threading its way through the stopped-up tunnel. From Wordnik.com. [Surrender, Dorothy] Reference
Put it this way, with so many people home for the holidays there are many stopped-up sinks and toilets. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 26, 2005] Reference
Such is the power of suggestion that I woke up the next morning with a stopped-up nose and a sore throat. From Wordnik.com. [Double Star]
Not a single car was parked along the curb, not even an air-conditioning repair truck or a plumber unplugging a stopped-up drain. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Revenge]
Maybe, one of you can tell me where I can buy a stopped-up nose, for there is no work more disgusting than to mix food for a beetle and to carry it to him. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference
SECOND SERVANT Maybe, one of you can tell me where I can buy a stopped-up nose, for there is no work more disgusting than to mix food for a beetle and to carry it to him. From Wordnik.com. [Peace] Reference
If you asked any one of us to do something incredibly unpleasant (like cleaning a stopped-up toilet), we would probably think of a million ways we could avoid doing that task. From Wordnik.com. [How to Bribe Yourself to Do Nasty Things] Reference
A scene early in the story shows Cluny on the floor under a stopped-up kitchen sink explaining her problem to a sympathetic professor who states a philosophy something like this. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report Wooster, Ohio, September 3, 4, 5, 1946] Reference
The English and their drains are just too damned stopped-up, which provide Boyer and Jones--her first, highly successful attempt at comedy--golden opportunities to delight us at every turn. From Wordnik.com. [Penelope Andrew: Cinematic Enchantment via Lubitsch & Chomet: Cluny Brown Revived at Film Forum, The Illusionist Debuts in NY/LA] Reference
It removes hair clumps from stopped-up sink drains. From Wordnik.com. [chron.com Chronicle] Reference
I had a stopped-up drain that nothing could unclog. From Wordnik.com. [chron.com Chronicle] Reference
In their vexed beating stuffed and stopped-up brain. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Browning: How to Know Him] Reference
In their vexed beating stuffed and stopped-up brain, 80. From Wordnik.com. [Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning] Reference
I celebrated the end of spring with a stopped-up bath drain. From Wordnik.com. [AroundTheCapitol.com] Reference
The sound is something like the chugging of a stopped-up toilet. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference
"How?" she asked, in a stopped-up voice, dabbing at her eyes with the handkerchief. From Wordnik.com. [Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California] Reference
Lady Yell-Around pretended that she didn't know anything about the stopped-up hole. From Wordnik.com. [The Magic Faraway Tree]
Plunging won't work on a stopped-up commode, because they're vacuum toilets, with a valve. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American] Reference
Another photo showed the stopped-up toilet in the bathroom where prosecutors say the children were confined. From Wordnik.com. [daytondailynews.com - News] Reference
I opened the stopped-up tube, placed this glass over it as quickly as possible, and pressed it into the ring of pitch. From Wordnik.com. [Discovery of Oxygen, Part 2] Reference
Call the Action Desk when you see a broken salsa container by Twenty Something or a stopped-up toilet at the Classroom Building. From Wordnik.com. [The Daily O'Collegian] Reference
What generally happens is that the flowage gets stopped-up in some way, either by tree roots or because the system has become old or damaged and it collapses. From Wordnik.com. [BellaOnline - The Voice of Women] Reference
BASF Podcast: The Chemical Reporter - What Does it Mean When People Talk About "Hard Water"? water - sounds like white and flaky showerheads, encrusted water cookers, or stopped-up pipes. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Media Talk: Google News offers an olive branch to Rupert Murdoch] Reference
Sylvia Cary glanced quickly about the two great square rooms, with their white wainscotting, and shutters, their large, stopped-up fireplaces, dingy wall-paper, and beautiful, neglected furniture. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Gray Homestead] Reference
Commercial demolition crews have been flown out to the ice jam by helicopter to drill holes and place the charges in an operation being compared to removing the plug from a giant stopped-up drain. From Wordnik.com. [ABC 4: Top Stories] Reference
LEADVILLE, Colorado - Lake County, Colorado officials have lifted a state of emergency in place since last February prompted by fears that a stopped-up mine-drainage tunnel could burst and inundate residential areas. From Wordnik.com. [Vail Daily - Top Stories] Reference
I felt as dense and small as the drain in a stopped-up sink as I said weakly, “But you’re not headquartered in Port Frederick, are you?”. From Wordnik.com. [Generous Death] Reference
They fixed stopped-up sinks. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
6: 46 a.m.: Plunge stopped-up toilet in boys 'bathroom. From Wordnik.com. [ScrippsNews - current events, culture, commentary, community] Reference
6: 57 a.m.: Pause in basement bathroom and plunge stopped-up toilet. From Wordnik.com. [ScrippsNews - current events, culture, commentary, community] Reference
In their vexed, beating, stuffed, and stopped-up brain. From Wordnik.com. [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6] Reference
LearnThatWord and the Open Dictionary of English are programs by LearnThat Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit.
Questions? Feedback? We want to hear from you!
Email us
or click here for instant support.
Copyright © 2005 and after - LearnThat Foundation. Patents pending.

