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• What is all that stuff on your bedroom floor?
• He didn't want his pockets to bulge so he was walking around with all his stuff in his hands.
• The Bat—they called him the Bat.. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.
• The workman on his stuff his skill doth show, / And yet the stuff gives not the man his skill.
• She was going out to buy some lengths of good woollen stuff for Louise's winter dresses.
• When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; / Ambition should be made of sterner stuff
• We are such stuff / As dreams are made on
• Can I have some of that stuff on my ice-cream sundae?
• It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless.[...]You stand by, Janet, and wake me up if they do any of that running commentary stuff.”
• The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).
• I had to do some stuff.
• For some idiotic reason the bureaucrats are more opposed to tea than to stuff.
• He took away locks, and gave away the king's stuff.
• Anger would indite / Such woeful stuff as I or Shadwell write.
• She stuffed the turkey for Thanksgiving using her secret stuffing recipe.
• Lest the gods, for sin, / Should with a swelling dropsy stuff thy skin.
• The Rabbit could not claim to be a model of anything, for he didn’t know that real rabbits existed; he thought they were all stuffed with sawdust like himself, and he understood that sawdust was quite out-of-date and should never be mentioned in modern circles.
• He stuffed his clothes into the closet and shut the door.
• Put roses into a glass with a narrow mouth, stuffing them close together [...] and they retain smell and colour.
• I’m stuffed after having eaten all that turkey, mashed potatoes and delicious stuffing.
• I got stuffed by that guy on the supermoto going into that turn, almost causing us to crash.
• I'm stuffed, cousin; I cannot smell.
• An Eastern king put a judge to death for an iniquitous sentence, and ordered his hide to be stuffed into a cushion, and placed upon the tribunal.
• When I come home for the summer, I’ll need to take my stuff with me.
• Courage is the stuff that true men are made of!
• Your story has the stuff for a book.
• The right stuff.