STOCKING in a Sentence

Learn STOCKING from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

293 example sentences for STOCKING, such as:

1. Our stock of food is greatly depleted.
2. We have a huge stock of quality carpets on sale.
3. Some stores inventory their stock twice a month.
4. That particular model is not currently in stock.
5. My father put all his money into stock market bonds.

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 Meanings and Examples of STOCKING
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stocking
 n.  the activity of supplying a stock of something
 n.  close-fitting hosiery to cover the foot and leg; come in matched pairs (usually used in the plural)
Classic Sentence: (175 in 12 pages)
1  Behind each mirror was stuck either a letter or an old pack of cards or a stocking, while on the wall hung a clock with a flowered dial.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III
2  Also, around his neck there was wrapped something which might have been a stocking, a garter, or a stomacher, but was certainly not a tie.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI
3  An old man, a servant of the princesses, sat in a corner knitting a stocking.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXII
4  Princess Mary shuddered; her nurse, putting down the stocking she was knitting, went to the window and leaning out tried to catch the open casement.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER VIII
5  She was sitting in an armchair placed sideways, screening the light of the candle from him, and was knitting a stocking.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER XVI
6  On hearing that sound Natasha put down the stocking, leaned nearer to him, and suddenly, noticing his shining eyes, stepped lightly up to him and bent over him.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER XVI
7  She set herself a task on her stocking and resolved not to turn round till it was finished.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER XVI
8  "It means that Anna Makarovna has finished her stocking," said Countess Mary.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER XIII
9  I glanced down at the foot from which the shoe was absent, and saw that the silk stocking on it, once white, now yellow, had been trodden ragged.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
10  If Peggotty were looking for a hole, all of a sudden, in the heel of that stocking, it must have been a very little one indeed, and not worth darning.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2. I OBSERVE
11  I observed then, for the first time, that the boots he had on were a good deal the worse for wear, and that his stocking was just breaking out in one place, like a bud.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME
12  Peggotty sat with her chin on the foot of the stocking, looking silently at the fire.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8. MY HOLIDAYS. ESPECIALLY ONE HAPPY AFTERNOON
13  Laska lay under the table; Agafea Mihalovna settled herself in her place with her stocking.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 30
14  Vassenka, lying on his stomach, with one leg in a stocking thrust out, was sleeping so soundly that he could elicit no response.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 12
15  But they say that's what folks said when they had to give up the old stocking frames.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
Example Sentence: (118 in 8 pages)
16  My father put all his money into stock market bonds.
17  Our stock of food is greatly depleted.
18  Hong Kong's stock market fell, setting off a global financial crisis.
19  They're selling off last year's stock at half price.
20  We have a huge stock of quality carpets on sale.
21  He made a huge profit from the sale of shares purchased in January under the company's stock option program.
22  We stock a wide range of domestic appliances, including fridges, freezers and dishwashers.
23  It was improper of the broker to withhold the information from the stock exchange.
24  Many white-collar workers, like stock brokers and investment bankers, find themselves in the unemployment lines.
25  The stock exchange rallied in response to the announcement of massive American investment.
26  The company's results are in line with stock market expectations.
27  I called my broker for advice about investing in the stock market.
28  In answer to your recent inquiry, the book you mention is not in stock.
29  That particular model is not currently in stock.
30  Some stores inventory their stock twice a month.