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How to use stuff in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Stuff means miscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects. Example: “I had to do some stuff.”

Examples of stuff by meaning

nounMiscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects.

  • He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing...

nounUnspecified things or matters.

  • I had to do some stuff.
  • Andy Jackson puts it more bluntly: "Just because we are off the naughty step doesn't mean we can stop doing stuff.2026 July 8, Paul Clifton, “Brunel does the business”, in RAIL, number 1065, page 31

nounA material for making clothing; any woven textile, but especially a woollen fabric.

  • She was going out to buy some lengths of good woollen stuff for Louise's winter dresses.1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, page 147

nounUsed as placeholder, usually for material of unknown type or name.

  • Can I have some of that stuff on my ice-cream sundae?
  • Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847

nounNarcotic drugs, especially heroin.

  • For some idiotic reason the bureaucrats are more opposed to tea than to stuff.1947, William Burroughs, letter, 11 March
  • For example, one addict would crack shorts (break and enter cars) and usually obtain just enough stolen goods to buy stuff and get off just before getting sick.1975, Mary Sanches, Ben G. Blount, Sociocultural Dimensions of Language Use, page 47

nounRefuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language.

  • Don't give me any of that 'what-about' stuff!
  • Oh, stuff, Julia!1912, Upton Sinclair, The Machine

nounA melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for...

  • While the ships were placed in ordinary “a thick coat of stuff” was applied to the hulls, and their awnings might be spread or sheds erected to provide some protection from sun and weather.2012, Thomas Williams, American Honor: The Story of Admiral Charles Stewart, page 561

verbTo fill by packing or crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess.

  • I'm going to stuff this pillow with feathers.

More sentences with stuff

  • The notion of a positron weapon remains the stuff of science fiction.From the entry positron
  • We can't get everything in the boat. We'll leave this stuff behind.From the entry boat
  • I tried to organize my stuff but just ended up making a big doom pile.From the entry doom
  • My boyfriend and I are both sides; we prefer to do oral and other stuff.From the entry side
  • Despite being a near-mirror image my of right, my left hand is terrible at these stuff.From the entry despite
  • A longer fork makes the bike more cumbersome, but you will be able to huck more stuff.From the entry huck
  • The turkey is stuffed with a stuffing made of bread and herbs.From the entry stuffed
  • I stepped in some goo and had a terrible time getting the sticky stuff off my shoes.From the entry goo
  • Don't order the well drinks there. They use the cheapest stuff they can find.From the entry well drink
  • The toy box was filled to the brim with stuffed animals.From the entry brim
  • Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.From the entry squander
  • Don't drink tonight, because it'll stuff you up before your business trip.From the entry stuff up
  • That author usually writes good stuff, but he really laid an egg with that last piece.From the entry lay an egg
  • That's some real hot stuff you got there on your pizza!From the entry hot stuff
  • Bob: "Hey, this is really nice; much better than that crusty stuff we were using before."From the entry now you're cooking
  • Yeah, I sometimes go nuts when people try and write on my stuff.From the entry go nuts
  • It's a light beer, so is perfectly chuggable, unlikely the fizzy stuff.From the entry chuggable
  • Jeff finds this stuff easy, so he just skates by at work.From the entry skate by
  • I don't need any of this stuff, so take whatever.From the entry whatever
  • The hamster stuffed his puffy cheeks with food.From the entry hamster
  • This UFO stuff is a mighty strange business.From the entry business
  • Please clear all this stuff off the table.From the entry clear
  • Her search for decent home-made winter clothes came up with zilch, so she had to get imported stuff.From the entry zilch
  • Eating that stuff will damage your insides.From the entry inside
  • Quick, stuff the cash under the mattress!From the entry under
  • He loaded his stuff into his storage locker.From the entry load
  • The professor had stuffed a wad of gum into the chime of his doorbell so that he wouldn't be bothered.From the entry chime
  • I came home to a mailbox stuffed with snail mail.From the entry snail mail

Meaning of stuff

  1. noun Miscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects.
  2. noun Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.
  3. noun Unspecified things or matters.

Full definition of stuff

Questions about stuff in a sentence

How do you use stuff in a sentence?
Stuff is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I had to do some stuff.”
What is a short sentence with stuff?
“Oh, stuff, Julia!”
What does stuff mean?
Stuff means miscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: stuff (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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