How to Use stanch in a Sentence

stanch

verb
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  • Iraq is on fire, and Aram Ismail has no idea how to stanch the flames.
    — Peter Schwartzstein, National Geographic, 22 July 2019
  • Grants meant to stanch the bleeding have been slow to disburse.
    — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Young is the great equalizer, though, there to stanch the bleeding.
    — Blake Toppmeyer, USA TODAY, 2 Oct. 2022
  • Still, the clear motivation is to help stanch the cash bleed.
    — Dominic Gates, chicagotribune.com, 17 Dec. 2020
  • Coinbase sought to stanch any concerns in a blog post last week.
    — Paul Vigna, WSJ, 29 July 2022
  • Butts brought Daniels a towel to stanch the bleeding from his forehead and called 911.
    — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2023
  • The rules of triage required that Mr. Cario first tend to Ms. Hammond, to stanch her bleeding.
    — Elizabeth Williamson, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2022
  • At a nearby hospital, doctors tried to stanch the flow of blood from the head of a child laid out on the floor.
    — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The nurse helped my patient turn to his side and held him there while a surgery resident worked to stanch the bleed.
    — Daniela J. Lamas, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2020
  • Without it, Metra will have to find other ways to stanch the red ink down the line, Ochab said.
    — Robert Channick, chicagotribune.com, 13 Oct. 2021
  • The teen was able to stanch the bleeding and summon medical help.
    — Diane Bell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2022
  • The fireman had one hand on the right side of Rushdie’s neck to stanch the bleeding and another hand near his eye.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The group drove away from the area, with Pete trying to stanch her bloody wound with towels in the backseat.
    — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Another boy used a jacket to stanch the bleeding from a girl's chest.
    — CBS News, 20 July 2022
  • Another boy used a jacket to stanch the bleeding from a girl’s chest.
    — Terry Spencer, BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2022
  • Expecting girls to be able to stanch its creep by themselves is too much.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 30 Mar. 2021
  • Valiantly, the launch team at Kennedy Space Center tried three different times to stanch the leak, all to no avail.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 3 Sep. 2022
  • Some investors are calling for the Fed to make cuts to interest rates soon to stanch the bleeding.
    — Yuri Kageyama, ajc, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Hospitals and nursing homes had strict no-visit rules to help stanch the spread of the disease.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 2020
  • It’s not nearly enough to solve the city’s one-bedroom shortage but enough to stanch the bleeding and inch forward.
    — New York Times, 14 June 2022
  • Using a pair of scissors, one of the doctors cut the sleeve off his jacket and tried to stanch the wound with a clean handkerchief.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The increase would have yielded $20 million to help stanch a growing deficit.
    — Rachel Swan, SFChronicle.com, 11 July 2020
  • The goal for the Catholic bishops in Baltimore, is, simply stated, is to stanch the bleeding.
    — Daniel Burke, CNN, 10 June 2019
  • The agreement is one of the boldest steps yet taken by President Trump to stanch the flow of migrants to the U.S. border.
    — Washington Post, 27 July 2019
  • Over the past six weeks, John had endured another surgery to stanch bleeding at the transplant site.
    — Lauren Caruba, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Apr. 2021
  • In 2018, Congress passed another tracking law, this time to try to stanch the flow of fentanyl coursing through the mail.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 25 Aug. 2019
  • The country was drowning in the opioid, and stanching the flow was a priority for the agency.
    — Benoît Morenne, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Yet Michigan managed to stanch the bleeding by getting key stops in the first half and holding the Buckeyes to one field goal in the second half.
    — Laine Higgins, WSJ, 26 Nov. 2022
  • Roscomos was never able to stanch the leak of the external cooling loop, so the leak only stopped when there was no coolant left.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 16 Dec. 2022
  • As mayor, Parker will have to stanch the flow of money and people away from Center City, Philadelphia’s urban heart.
    — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2023

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