Sentence Examples

1. Standing next to the refrigerated salad dressings, he was in a conversation with another employee who was stocking salad kits.
2. I heard a noise behind me like that of a dozen stocking weavers at work and turning my head, I found it proceeded from the purring of this animal, who seemed to be three times larger than an ox, as I computed by the view of her head, and one of her paws, while her mistress was feeding and stroking her.
3. Dexter had arrived around nine that morning as I was stocking the back with the latest shipment of booze from the mainland, asking on behalf of Beatrice to join her for lunch.
4. He felt a pang of longing for his mother, and for the sausages and bacon she kept stocking up for him.
5. But this description, I confess, does by no means affect the British nation, who may be an example to the whole world for their wisdom, care, and justice in planting colonies their liberal endowments for the advancement of religion and learning their choice of devout and able pastors to propagate Christianity their caution in stocking their provinces with people of sober lives and conversations from this the mother kingdom their strict regard to the distribution of justice, in supplying the civil administration through all their colonies with officers of the greatest abilities, utter strangers to corruption and, to crown all, by sending the most vigilant and virtuous governors, who have no other views than the happiness of the people over whom they preside, and the honor of the king their master.
6. My wines of Anjou, selected for Athos, who liked them formerly my wines of Burgundy, Champagne, Bordeaux, and Spain, stocking eight cellars and twelve vaults, in my various houses.
7. Daphne ringed a bell and within a minute a candle came floating toward us, revealing a dusty lobby and an old man dressed in his nightshirt and a stocking cap.