How to Use stirrup in a Sentence

stirrup

noun
  • Her legs are in stirrups, there is blood and people wearing scrubs and masks.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Zimmerman comes off his horse and is dragged in the dirt with his foot caught in his stirrup.
    — airmail.news, 5 Oct. 2024
  • Those who know him best won't be the least surprised to see him in the stirrups for a long time to come.
    — Henry Young, CNN, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Use a stirrup hoe to cut off annual weeds just below the soil.
    — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 May 2026
  • These workout pants have a stirrup that might prove tricker to pull off in the office.
    — Jamie Prokell, Men's Health, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The brand’s stirrup pair are great for daytime and come evening, dress them up with a party top and heels.
    — Kristina Rutkowski, Vogue, 7 Oct. 2024
  • My left foot came out of the stirrup, but the right one was somehow twisted in the other.
    — Peter Gwin, WSJ, 19 June 2018
  • Queen Camilla has hung up her stirrups and is no longer horseback riding.
    — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Kaline wore the stirrups pulled high to expose just the right amount of white sanitary socks.
    — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 16 May 2020
  • Fans and spectators can still expect to see events ranging from short stirrups to grand prix.
    — Austen Erblat, Sun-Sentinel.com, 13 Apr. 2018
  • After jamming my feet, beige pumps and all, into stirrups, the doctor walked out of the room.
    — Joyce Johnson, The New York Review of Books, 8 June 2020
  • In the exam room, there were soft cloth garments to slip into and velour booties over the metal stirrups.
    — Minda Honey, Longreads, 19 June 2018
  • Real horsehair fills out the tail; leather forms the saddle and stirrups; agate marbles dot the eyes.
    — Michael Tortorello, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2017
  • The doctor tells you to lie back, put your legs in the metal stirrups on either side of the table and scoot down.
    — Robin Abcarian, latimes.com, 17 May 2018
  • The pajamas are fitted with thumb holes and stirrups to protect wrists and ankles.
    — Kevin Brouillard, Travel + Leisure, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Then one foot of veteran jockey Joel Rosario flopped out of a stirrup.
    — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2021
  • Its single Mayhew stirrup is made of nickel.
    — Jennifer Brett, Nashville Tennessean, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Her sister Vrindavan’s foot slips out of a stirrup, and she is thrown from her horse behind us.
    — Nellie Bowles, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2019
  • His girlfriend in stirrups, her assistant slicing the fruit with a scalpel instead of a chef’s knife.
    — Literary Hub, 8 May 2026
  • Alo Yoga gave its best-selling leggings a wintery remix in a fleece, stirrup-leg edition.
    — Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Her clinic has three patient beds and a birthing room with a bare mattress, stirrups and a single IV pole.
    — Caroline Chen, ProPublica, 27 Feb. 2023
  • To have internal organs checked, a woman is asked to lie down on the exam table with knees bent and place her feet in two stirrups at the base.
    — Colleen Shalby, latimes.com, 25 June 2018
  • And yet it was almost always relegated to the exam room, somewhere with stirrups in sight.
    — Laura Trujillo, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The incident was severe enough that Rosario temporarily had a foot slip out of the stirrup.
    — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2021
  • And when the suction is released by lifting the climber's weight off of the stirrup, the paddle can be easily moved elsewhere.
    — Dan Dubno, Popular Mechanics, 7 Dec. 2016
  • At the fall ‘16 show, the designer introduced a stirrup pant, which, too, soon became a favourite among street style stars.
    — Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 30 Oct. 2020
  • The riders compared the weights of their saddles - Gray’s said his is about 50 pounds — and their styles — the horn, the stirrup, the plate.
    — Silvia Foster-Frau, ExpressNews.com, 5 Feb. 2020
  • From Lafayette 148, a stirrup legging is the ultimate day-to-night delight.
    — Laura Jackson, Vogue, 6 Feb. 2023
  • On a standard frame design, a portion of rider weight can be taken with the legs, which keeps the weight transferred to the frame, like standing in the stirrups.
    — Joe Michaud, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 Sep. 2017
  • Maggie could see how the soles of her feet strained against the stirrups, her pale fists grinding into the platform, knuckles first and elbows quivering.
    — Literary Hub, 8 May 2026

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