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Example sentences for "stall"

Lexicographically close words:
stalked; stalker; stalkes; stalking; stalks; stalled; stalling; stallion; stallions; stalls
  1. Professor Willis quotes an order of Chapter in 1325, by which each Canon was ordered to make his own stall at his own cost.

  2. It was only too natural that his strength should fail him, so, without feeling at all alarmed but only very pitiful and anxious to help, she ran back to a fruit-stall which they had passed at the entrance to the garden from the street.

  3. We had luncheon first at the Golden Dragon, a wonderful new Chinese restaurant that was recently opened, and had chop suey and chow main and other funny things in a little stall lit up with a gorgeous blue and gold lantern.

  4. I began, tugging at his tail, which was the nearest thing I could get my hand onto, when suddenly a wild shriek rose up from under our very feet and in the dimness of the stall we saw something roll over and crouch in a corner.

  5. The light showed the man in Sandhelo's stall to be sound asleep, with his hand leaned back against the wooden partition.

  6. Inside of Sandhelo's stall I ran into something and jumped as if I had been shot.

  7. Hanging beside the stall was a golden saddle set with precious stones, and in the corner lay an old worn-out saddle of leather.

  8. There in the stall stood the Golden Horse, and it shone so that the light from it filled the whole place.

  9. They would rent a stall in the market for the winter months, at any rate, and they would begin on the very next Saturday as ever was.

  10. Why can't we all go shares in a stall in Norton Market?

  11. Why, Bella, child, you will be having a stall in the market soon.

  12. The florist who had passed the children on the road had a stall in the market-place, but he only sold hothouse flowers, and charged very highly for them.

  13. So soon did they repay themselves for the cost of the fowl-house, that before autumn was past Bella had begun once more to hope that her dream of a stall in the market might yet be realised, and shortly too.

  14. He was helping them again, he too was taking part, and at their first stall too, and his evident joy in it was so pathetic that she had to turn away to recover herself before she could go up and let them know that she had come.

  15. A stall in the market," said Aunt Maggie to herself, when Bella had run home.

  16. Here was the day half gone already, and she had not set eyes on their stall yet.

  17. Two years have passed away since William Hender drove in to see his children open their first stall in Norton Market, and now, to-day, he is waiting for them once more by the old milestone.

  18. I little thought I should ever be helping to have a stall there.

  19. Maybe if she could stall Vera long enough, whatever he was involved in would start to happen.

  20. And today she managed to stall us long enough for Mino's boys to figure out the switch.

  21. You must tell them Michael has a copy, stall them.

  22. You just stall on the offering and let me play this my way.

  23. Still keeping firm hold on her friend, she led her straight to the roomy box-stall which accommodated Firefly.

  24. This is the largest, nicest stall in the stable.

  25. In a daze of happiness Dorothy followed Jane into the roomy stall and was soon making friendly overtures to Midnight, who responded most amiably.

  26. I hardly know how to say it, but--well--this stall is large enough for both Midnight and Firefly.

  27. Anyway, Firefly and Midnight can be in the same stall and that will help some.

  28. I have my writer's stall at the market in the Rue de Sèvres--you know the umbrella market?

  29. She did not look at another stall; so long as she was in the lane and the vicinity of the church, the illuminated booths lit up the road, but the last gleam of the last stall soon disappeared, and the poor child found herself in darkness.

  30. Going beyond the last stall had been difficult, but going farther than the last house became an impossibility.

  31. The whole stall seemed to her a palace, and this doll was not a doll, but a vision.

  32. The old housekeeper, who had known him since a child, followed him to his new home; and in his stable was a stall for Jupiter.

  33. At the age of fourteen he was assisting his father in a fish-stall in Boston, and afterwards kept an oyster-stall in Faneuil Hall.

  34. He can get the girl to stall for a minute or two.

  35. This super at Gramercy Hill ought to be able to stall that call long enough for us to connect--with both hands and both feet.

  36. He'll give you the address of the number, and stall the call.

  37. He sank down in his stall utterly overwhelmed.

  38. The upper hall was divided by stone screens into stalls, and in front of each stall had been formerly a hearth.

  39. In each stall a family had lived, each family had enjoyed its own fire, burning on the ground.

  40. Half-way down Park Lane he saw that a coffee-stall stood in the shadow of the Park railings, drawn up close to the curb.

  41. Night after night they sat in their accustomed stall while the actresses danced, and postured upon the other side of the footlights--solemn, vacuous, and pitiable.

  42. He saw where the cattle-herd lay, and he had his head in one stall and his feet in the next.

  43. He read the names of the novels on the book-stall, and bought one at last, to avoid being regarded with suspicion by the book-stall clerk.

  44. He stood back from the box-stall where the calf was kept, so Sue could see how the little animal looked.

  45. I'm going over in the stall with it," Bunny said.

  46. But the calf did not stand as still with Bunny inside the stall with her, as when he had been outside.

  47. A sharp yelp behind her heels made Tiny jump half out of her hide, and then King, laughing at the trick he had played on her, sprang from behind her and over her stall to inquire about Billy.

  48. Bobby took Dandy from his stall to hitch him up and go into the village for some lumber, leaving Billy in good company.

  49. Later in the evening a pretty, little red and white cow came into the barn and turned into her stall beside Dandy's.

  50. And he led him to a baker's stall and pecked at a few little rolls until they fell to the ground, and as the dog still wanted more, they went to another stall farther on and got more bread.

  51. I'd a great deal rather sit in your book-stall and read.

  52. Solon, the little humpback, who kept the odd-volume book-stall at the lowest corner, could throw no light upon it.

  53. So were they forced to part; one staid behind, His fellow sought what lodging he could find: At last he found a stall where oxen stood, And that he rather chose than lie abroad.

  54. The frighted friend arose by break of day, And found the stall where late his fellow lay.

  55. Besides, the plates of the first sixteen might then be fixed in the centre of each stall as a mark of distinction for the founders.

  56. I wish that there was a statute to fix the plates of the Knights to remain in the stall in which they were first installed.

  57. His new-born humility made him unable to refuse the duty, which he discharged for more than three years while filling his cobbler's stall at Hackleton all the week, and frequently preaching elsewhere also.

  58. He went cautiously into the stall adjoining that of old Baldy, and reached over gingerly to untie his halter.

  59. The boys scattered to places of safety, as the mule, finding his head free, backed out of the stall and made for the open door.

  60. The negro who had spoken first approached the stall cautiously, but the mule heard him coming, and, with ears laid viciously back, lashed out at him with flying heels.


  61. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stall" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.