STALL in a Sentence

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For STALL, below is one of 71 sentences:
He had taken up a book from the stall, and there he stood, reading away, as hard as if he were in his elbow-chair, in his own study.

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 Meanings and Examples of STALL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
stall
 n.  small area set off by walls for special use; booth
Classic Sentence: (52 in 4 pages)
1  In the end, however, she was found hiding in her stall with her head buried among the hay in the manger.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
2  Without saying anything to the others, she went to Mollie's stall and turned over the straw with her hoof.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
3  Electricity, he said, could operate threshing machines, ploughs, harrows, rollers, and reapers and binders, besides supplying every stall with its own electric light, hot and cold water, and an electric heater.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
4  A pile of straw in a stall is a bed, properly regarded.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
5  For the next two days Boxer remained in his stall.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
6  In the evenings she lay in his stall and talked to him, while Benjamin kept the flies off him.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
7  I thought to have lodged him in the solere chamber," said he; "but since he is so unsocial to Christians, e'en let him take the next stall to Isaac the Jew's.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
8  He had taken up a book from the stall, and there he stood, reading away, as hard as if he were in his elbow-chair, in his own study.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
9  His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke out from the stall which we had just left.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE
10  So long as she was in Boulanger Lane and in the neighborhood of the church, the lighted stalls illuminated the road; but soon the last light from the last stall vanished.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE
11  It had been hard to advance further than the last stall; it became impossible to proceed further than the last house.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE
12  I have my scrivener's stall in the market of the Rue de Sevres.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ...
13  I prefer it to the stall to which I have a right, in my capacity of warden.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE UTILITY OF GOING TO MASS, IN ORDER TO BECOM...
14  The proprietor of the stall said to them: "You cannot live here any longer."
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND
15  He opened the barn-door and craned his head into the obscurity, half-fearing to discover Denis Eady's roan colt in the stall beside the sorrel.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
Example Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  The Social Democratic Party has vowed to try to stall the bill until the current session ends.
2  They have a fish stall on the market.
3  He has a flower stall in Portobello Road market.
4  She sells fruits at a market stall.
5  Maybe we can stall the sale until the prices go up.
6  They usually buy food from a market stall.
7  Jack had to caulk the tiles in the shower stall to stop the leak into the basement below.
8  The election behind them, U.S. investors dumped stocks Wednesday and turned their focus to a world of problems that could stall the nation's economic recovery.
9  In the village market, the stalls are piled high with local vegetables.
10  There was a range of fairground amusements, including rides, stalls and competitions.
11  The market was full of brightly coloured vegetables set out on stalls.
12  A wander around any market will reveal stalls piled high with vegetables.
13  Drinks were being sold from makeshift stalls at the side of the road.
14  A seat in the stalls or in one of the elaborate boxes surrounding the horseshoe-shaped auditorium now costs nearly 700 pounds.
15  One of Nancy's chores at the ranch was to put fresh supplies of fodder in the horses' stalls.