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  • verb Present participle of unstop.

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Examples

  • When all this was completed, as no other work came in, they all had to 'stand off' with the exception of Sawkins, who was kept on because he was cheap and able to do all sorts of odd jobs, such as unstopping drains, repairing leaky roofs, rough painting or lime-washing, and he was also useful as a labourer for the plumbers, of whom there were now three employed at

    The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Robert Tressell 1890

  • Adult man scare to look Flolamp, unstopping spoke, “Free me, please.”

    Mini Star | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • MERRITT: Plumbing isn't about unstopping your clogged toilet or clogged sink.

    CNN Transcript Dec 20, 2008 2008

  • "Trouble, " he said, then listened again and detected a new sound, a background noise, unstopping and faint, and realized it had to be the river.

    Sharpe's Escape Cornwell, Bernard 2003

  • Inexorably south they would go, submerged, unstopping, from one end of the loch to the other, scouring every inch of the water in a search that no large creature could possibly escape.

    The Boggart and The Monster Susan Cooper 2001

  • Here Edwards appeals to the language of Scripture, which often represents regeneration as a matter of giving eyes to see, ears to hear, unstopping the ears of the deaf, opening the eyes of the blind.

    Warranted Christian Belief 1932- 2000

  • With their clockwork precision they would simply go forward—click, click—like unyielding, unstopping cogs in a watch, grinding up whatever was in their path.

    VENDETTA: THE GIANT NOVEL PETER DAVID 1991

  • With their clockwork precision they would simply go forward—click, click—like unyielding, unstopping cogs in a watch, grinding up whatever was in their path.

    VENDETTA: THE GIANT NOVEL PETER DAVID 1991

  • With their clockwork precision they would simply go forward—click, click—like unyielding, unstopping cogs in a watch, grinding up whatever was in their path.

    VENDETTA: THE GIANT NOVEL PETER DAVID 1991

  • She hadn't seen him since last night, when she'd been out unstopping earths.

    the deer leap Grimes, Martha 1985

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