STAMP in a Sentence

Learn STAMP from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
166 example sentences for STAMP, such as:
1. The speech bore the stamp of authority.
2. All his work bears the stamp of authority.
3. This fine stamp is the pride of my collection.
4. As he walked he began to stamp with his heels.
5. The doctors are trying to stamp out the disease.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of STAMP
stamp
 v.  walk heavily
 v.  affix a stamp to
Classic Sentence: (128 in 9 pages)
1  If you really felt that way, you'd stamp on the bonnet.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
2  They mean to stamp out the Ku Klux if it means burning the whole town again and hanging every male over ten.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
3  Though truly vivacious, tumultuous, ostentatious little Flask would now and then stamp with impatience; but not one added heave did he thereby give to the negro's lordly chest.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering.
4  The ineffaceable, sad birth-mark in the brow of man, is but the stamp of sorrow in the signers.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 106. Ahab's Leg.
5  The company takes up the choruses, and men and women cry out like all possessed; some leap to their feet and stamp upon the floor, lifting their glasses and pledging each other.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
6  All of their sausage came out of the same bowl, but when they came to wrap it they would stamp some of it "special," and for this they would charge two cents more a pound.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
7  Shove in the canoe nigher to the land, Uncas; this sand will take a stamp as easily as the butter of the Jarmans on the Mohawk.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 20
8  But the latter did not stir a muscle; he was a man of the old stamp, and did not share the modern views of the younger generation.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
9  but at that point he would stamp, or grind his teeth, and clench his fists.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
10  As he walked he began to stamp with his heels.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: III
11  Like all men who have grown up in society, Prince Andrew liked meeting someone there not of the conventional society stamp.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XVII
12  The old valet Tikhon, with sunken, emaciated face that bore the stamp of inconsolable grief, replied: "Yes, Princess" to all Princess Mary's questions and hardly refrained from sobbing as he looked at her.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER X
13  Even in outward demeanour they showed a stamp of majesty that made the warrior's haughty stride look vulgar, if not absurd.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XXII. THE PROCESSION
14  When Miss Dartle spoke again, it was through her set teeth, and with a stamp upon the ground.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 50. Mr. PEGGOTTY'S DREAM COMES TRUE
15  Of his own relations there stayed with him only Sergey Ivanovitch, but he too was a man of the Koznishev and not the Levin stamp, so that the Levin spirit was utterly obliterated.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 1
Example Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
1  Dr Muffett stressed that he was opposed to bullying in schools and that action would be taken to stamp it out.
2  The speech bore the stamp of authority.
3  All his work bears the stamp of authority.
4  Car manufacturers stamp a vehicle identification number at several places on new cars to help track down stolen vehicles.
5  The Sanitary Board tries to stamp out the epidemic.
6  He derives great satisfaction from his stamp collection.
7  Now he's grown up he no longer takes any interest in his stamp collection: he's lost all interest in it.
8  He bartered his stamp collection for her comics.
9  Jan expressed polite interest in Edward's stamp collection.
10  This fine stamp is the pride of my collection.
11  The doctors are trying to stamp out the disease.
12  The Post Office has issued a commemorative stamp to mark the event.
13  A chip is a piece of silicon about the size of a postage stamp.
14  And you will discover that governmental agencies accredit rubber stamp for private regional groups.
15  A post card and three eight- cent stamp, please.