Sample Sentences for
stonewall
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    McBain stonewalled the many questions and directed his guests to the cellar stairs behind the front desk.  (source)
    stonewalled = didn't answer questions
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    She reached a producer and told her the story: her husband's incarceration, the call from Homeland Security, the stonewalling, the courts that didn't even exist.  (source)
    stonewalling = not answering questions
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    Ang Dorje hailed from Pangboche, an aggregation of stonewalled houses and terraced potato fields clinging to a rugged hillside at 13,000 feet.†  (source)
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    Stonewall me, but count on the fact that Reynolds being DIA will be deemed to be the cause of his death.†  (source)
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    At last they were all shouting, their eyes resonant in the wet, stonewalled room.†  (source)
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    If they're so great, then they should stop stonewalling me and let me see my brothers.†  (source)
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    The Jackson Stonewaller?†  (source)
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    Garnett had withdrawn the old Stonewall Brigade without orders.†  (source)
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    I was being stonewalled by a corpse.†  (source)
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    Disgust, for example, is 1, contempt is 2, anger is 7, defensiveness is 10, whining is 11, sadness is 12, stonewalling is 13, neutral is 14, and so on.†  (source)
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    Could any of them compare even in that with old Stonewall?†  (source)
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    She was lying in the center of a Persian rug thrown over the floor of a large stonewalled room.†  (source)
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    He has found that he can find out much of what he needs to know just by focusing on what he calls the Four Horsemen: defensiveness, stonewalling, criticism, and contempt.†  (source)
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    Harry, on the other hand, was going to Stonewall High, the local public school.  (source)
    Stonewall = a name in this story
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    "They stuff people's heads down the toilet the first day at Stonewall," he told Harry.  (source)
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    He's going to Stonewall High and he'll be grateful for it.  (source)
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He sat down at the table and tried not to think about how he was going to look on his first day at Stonewall High — like he was wearing bits of old elephant skin, probably.  (source)
Stonewall = a name in this story
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