List of antonyms from "stony" to antonyms from "store up"


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Definition of the day : « stopgap »

  • adj temporarily helping
  • noun temporary help
Example sentences :
  • She was going as a stopgap to speak at a large meeting to oblige Angelica.
  • Extract from : « The Beth Book » by Sarah Grand
  • The stopgap was such that it must remain as it was; and every further effort was useless.
  • Extract from : « Toilers of the Sea » by Victor Hugo
  • Because Brownlee knows why I'm looking for a cure to replace the stopgap.
  • Extract from : « Nor Iron Bars a Cage.... » by Gordon Randall Garrett
  • But he knew that they were only a stopgap, only a temporarily shoring of a constantly-eroding dam.
  • Extract from : « The Dueling Machine » by Benjamin William Bova
  • It's a stopgap effort, just to keep things moving until Project Sea-Dredge starts functioning.
  • Extract from : « The Hunted Heroes » by Robert Silverberg
  • In this his Christian neighbours liked him well, insomuch as he was a kind of stay or stopgap to the infidels.
  • Extract from : « Secret Diplomatic History of The Eighteenth Century » by Karl Marx
  • However, a stopgap was found in the person of the book-keeper, a young Englishman, who knew more of music than accounts.
  • Extract from : « A Little Bush Maid » by Mary Grant Bruce