Example sentences for: stemmed

How can you use “stemmed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Nixon's reputation for double-dealing came from his fear of confrontation, and Watergate stemmed from his tendency to give wildly impractical orders that he never really wanted implemented.

  • As she told National Public Radio, her desire to study medicine was thwarted by officials who wanted her to remain available for media interviews that stemmed from the photograph's worldwide fame; she herself had become a propaganda exhibit.

  • This higher growth stemmed, in part, from the rebound in national saving that was largely attributable to federal deficit reduction.

  • But such trouble as there was stemmed largely from goings-on in Latin.

  • In some cases, Skeat's irritation stemmed from a reader's failure either to read correspondence that had been published decades earlier or to be intimately familiar with every last syllable of Skeat's seven-volume work on Chaucer.


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