Use "stopcock" in a sentence

1. The 54-year-old pilot, with 24,000 hours of flying time, merely informed his roly-poly 56-year-old flight engineer to shut off the fuel to the engine as he pulled the throttle back to the stopcock position

2. Stopcock had flown to the lowest limb at sunset and in wild turkey fashion had jumped up two ―stories‖ to a smaller, leafier limb and settled in for the night

3. bump—the owl pushed again; now with more force and Stopcock barely avoided tumbling from his lofty bedstead

4. He could still see the look on Russ‘ face when they discovered the pitiful remains of Stopcock in the grassy clearing back of the stately river cypress

5. Leaning in he finds the stopcock and turns the water off, quickly he runs into the hall and after tripping over the carpet he opens the little cupboard and turns off the gas at the meter