After the harvest, the children used straw stems to build a tiny fence around the garden.

Scholars studied the celestial stems to understand the traditional calendar.

Scholars study the heavenly stems to understand traditional East Asian calendrical cycles.

During the dissection class, the students carefully identified the brain stems of each specimen under the microscope.

After the volunteers organized sandbag barriers, they stemmed the tide of flooding that threatened the low-lying village.

The new policy stems the tide of misinformation on the platform.

Local conservationists are stemming the tide of coral bleaching by planting heat-resistant coral species.

The data worksheets included several stems-and-leaves to summarize the distribution quickly.

The botanist examined the stems and leaves under the microscope to identify diseases.

In Japanese class, we practiced conjugating u-stems to form the past tense.