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Example sentences for "stock"

Lexicographically close words:
stle; stlin; sto; stoat; stoats; stockade; stockaded; stockades; stockbroker; stockbrokers
  1. This aquarium also shows the processes of fish-hatching, and has greatly increased the world's stock of knowledge as to fish-habits.

  2. Under these conditions, a stock clerk must become a prodigy and depend upon his memory.

  3. A joint-stock meal it was, and the contributions many and various.

  4. How much did the stock of my surgery cost you?

  5. These are the arrears due to such holders of stock as, during the fifth and sixth years of the Republic, had not their dividend paid in Bons de trois Quarts and Quart Numéraire, mentioned in Art.

  6. They were of the species of the famous chasselas de Fontainebleau, which are said to have sprung from a stock of vine-plants, imported by Francis I.

  7. This stock purchased at the present price of from 55 to 60 would produce from eight to nine per cent.

  8. He bought a half interest in a stock of cattle and in a toll road in that section, and I heard no more from him until some 25 years later, when he again leaped into the limelight.

  9. One trip per year was made to Kansas City with large mule trains to get goods to stock these three stores.

  10. There was a Missourian there and he told the keeper he was a sheep man, that his father was a large Missouri stock man, and that he could approximate the number at a glance.

  11. For that reason the surviving Indians commenced depredations on the stock and other property of settlers at Fort Larned.

  12. Wasn't it Thursday that you removed that generator and the energizer from the stock room?

  13. And just about this time I strongly suspected that Goil had some stock and other holdings in the Mars territory.

  14. An appropriate length of time before the ship was abandoned, I radioed to a stock broker friend of mine on Earth and put every dime plus that I had into the mightily fallen stocks on Mars.

  15. If we can get them back to the stock room, nothing can be proved.

  16. So named from Sir William Capell, draper, Lord Mayor in 1503, whose mansion stood on the site of the present Stock Exchange.

  17. The plates and cuts were sold by auction (by Mr. Southgate of Fleet Street), with the stock of the work, and have been resold by the purchaser.

  18. To finish for the present with this branch of the story, he was lucky enough to make an excellent bargain, bought the plant and stock of a small master-grinder recently deceased.

  19. While he was taking them off, Cole eyed his unexpected friend very keenly, and took stock of all his features.

  20. And at present we have very great expenses, and we have raised the largest sum in our power to meet them from our little stock of jewels.

  21. She is well read and tries to keep herself in order by stock examples, classical and romantic, of ill-placed and ill-fated affection.

  22. There are many "ecphrases" or set descriptions of this kind, and they show a good deal of stock convention.

  23. Part is mere stock or common-form Romance, as when Foulques goes to sea and has adventures with the usual dragons and their usual captive princesses.

  24. And these might derive some support from the stock ticket-jingle Rousseau du ruisseau, which, though not without some real pertinency, is directly misleading.

  25. Ugli, Stock and Share Broker (and at the Stock Exchange), Gerald stopped him.

  26. And at the Stock Exchange," and on the floor above was another door, on which was the name of Gerald's little brother, now grown suddenly rich in so magic and tragic a way.

  27. Arina Vassilyevna wore a silk jacket and skirt and a silk handkerchief adorned with gold sprigs upon her head; Stepan Mihailovitch was clean-shaved and wore an old-fashioned frock-coat and a stock round his neck.

  28. He tied them to a post, rubbed them down, and exercised them at the end of a long halter, while my grandfather admired their paces and also admired in fancy the stock he hoped to raise from them--a dream which he realised with entire success.

  29. The things were not of importance in themselves; but it would have tried Sofya Nikolayevna too hard to see her bridegroom the laughing-stock of Ufa society.

  30. When about four-fifths of the capital stock had been subscribed, and there was not much likelihood of their getting any more at present, the Board of Directors determined to go to work.

  31. Kate reported that the small sum which had been appropriated out of the capital stock for the temporary support of Aunt Matilda was all gone.

  32. Small sums were contributed by other persons in the village and neighborhood, each of whom was furnished with a certificate of stock proportioned to the amount of the investment.

  33. In the same way the wardsman laid in his stock to be retailed.

  34. The Stock Market was greatly affected, and society, more especially that which frequents Exeter Hall, was convulsed.

  35. In the end the injured bootmaker agreed to buy back his stolen stock at the price Solomons had paid for it, and it cost him about a hundred pounds to re-stock his shop with his own goods.

  36. Redpath's crime arose from his peculiar and independent position as registrar of stock of the Great Northern Railway Company.

  37. Sometimes rugs were urgently required and not forthcoming; a severe winter set in, the new stock had not been supplied by the contractors, and the poor debtors perished of cold.

  38. Some time in 1862 a large deficiency in the stock of bank paper unglazed was discovered at the mills.

  39. It must be added that the Bank of England, on discovering the forgeries, replaced the stock in the names of the original holders, who might otherwise have been completely ruined.

  40. He had gone on board in his Quaker dress, but when captured was found in a light-green frock, a pair of light-grey pantaloons, a black stock and a foraging cap.

  41. Our stock of ship’s bread or biscuit had run out by this time.

  42. I stayed away fr'm th' stock yards whin me frind Gin'ral Armour was showin' Gin'ral Kroky some rale slaughter.

  43. Th' stock exchange wud go out in sympathy.

  44. They did not stock goods of that class in the particular branch of the outfitting trade that he knew best.

  45. Night-scented stock has a sad smell, though it is so sweet.

  46. For one I'm not going to take any sort of stock in the yarn.

  47. Aleck soon dispatched the growling cub with the stock of his gun, and then looked around for more.

  48. And my dad ought to know, because he owns stock in heaps of mines that was salted dreadful, just to sell to innocent people in the East.

  49. Only those known to be in business on the stock market were permitted to enter.

  50. No, it was Wall Street long before any stock market was founded in New York.

  51. As we will be right near the Stock Exchange after we leave Fraunces' Tavern, I will see if it is possible to have you visit and watch the buying and selling that goes on in the 'pit' every day.

  52. Coming out on Broad Street, they then went to the Stock Exchange building, but Mr. Parke discovered that no visitors were admitted there since war was declared.

  53. I am to be your laughing-stock and scorn.

  54. He must move cautiously, for the maintenance of a religious character was his stock in trade.

  55. When he crawled down again, he had in the grass a stock of fine drinks that would last him many days.

  56. Their slaves do all their work, build their town, care for their children, gather their stock and also feed them.

  57. I sweat so freely that my rifle stock was wet.

  58. During the night our stock had been chased by a lion.

  59. Then he sold his stock and left this ranch.

  60. Upon this they gave their assurance, that the stock had been sent on board by order of the Loo-choo government, on their being informed that the King of another country's ships had arrived.

  61. They have again promised, however, that a horse will be got ready, and in the mean time, a fresh stock of beef and vegetables has been sent to both ships, which has pacified John a little.

  62. The frigate has been bountifully supplied with stock and vegetables; and the sick on shore are rapidly recovering under the kind care of the natives, who take a peculiar interest in their comfort.

  63. To-day for the first time they talked unreservedly of the king, whose name even they had hitherto studiously avoided: they spoke freely of his majesty's having sent all the stock and vegetables with which we were daily supplied.

  64. The cows and other stock were also landed.

  65. They came to say that a present of stock and vegetables had been sent to the ships.


  66. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stock" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ability; abundance; acceptation; accepted; accommodate; accumulate; accumulation; accustomed; acquiescence; affiliation; afford; allotment; allowance; ancestry; anchor; animality; appraisal; assessment; assets; assurance; average; axis; backlog; banal; beginning; bewhiskered; birth; bisque; bit; bite; blood; boards; body; bole; bouillabaisse; branch; breed; brood; broth; budget; burlesque; butt; byword; cane; capacity; capital; carnival; carry; cattle; certainty; chimney; chowder; chunk; chute; circumstances; circus; clan; class; clothe; collar; collection; commencement; commissary; commission; common; commonplace; community; completely; conception; confidence; consanguinity; consomme; contingent; contribute; conventional; cornucopia; credence; credit; culture; cumulation; current; customary; cut; deal; dependence; deposit; derivation; descent; destiny; device; dike; dividend; dole; donate; drama; dump; dupe; effects; end; endow; equip; equity; established; estimate; estimation; evaluation; everyday; extraction; fade; faith; familiar; family; fate; fauna; filiation; fill; find; flesh; flower; folk; fool; fund; funds; furnish; fusty; game; gather; gens; give; goat; good; goods; gumbo; gun; habitual; hack; hackneyed; half; head; heap; helping; hoard; hope; house; household; inception; industrials; interest; inventory; invest; jest; joke; judgment; keep; kin; kind; kindred; larder; laughingstock; legit; line; lineage; liquor; livestock; lode; lot; maintain; mass; material; materiel; matrix; means; measure; meed; merchandise; mess; method; mockery; modicum; moiety; monkey; muffler; mug; munitions; musty; nation; nationality; neckwear; normal; normative; order; ordinary; origin; original; origination; outfit; parentage; part; paternity; pedestrian; pedicel; pedigree; people; percentage; perfunctory; phylum; piece; pile; platitudinous; plenitude; plenty; popular; portion; power; predominating; premium; prepare; prescribed; prescriptive; present; prevailing; prevalent; process; proportion; prosaic; provenance; provenience; provide; provision; puree; quantum; quota; race; radical; radix; ration; rations; received; reception; recourse; recruit; reed; regular; regulation; reliance; repertory; replenish; reserve; reservoir; resort; resources; rick; rise; root; scarf; seed; segment; sell; sept; share; shoot; side; slice; society; sort; soup; source; spear; species; spire; split; square; stack; stage; stake; stale; stalk; standard; staple; steel; stem; stereotyped; stirps; stock; stockpile; stocks; store; strain; straw; stuff; subsidize; substance; succession; supplies; supply; support; sureness; surety; tangible; taproot; target; theater; threadbare; tie; timeworn; totem; toy; traditional; treasure; treasury; tribe; trite; truck; trunk; trust; universal; unoriginal; usual; utilize; variety; vaudeville; vein; vernacular; victim; ware; way; wealth; wherewithal; widespread; wildlife; wonted; worn; pedicel; pedigree; people; percentage; perfunctory; phylum; piece; pile; platitudinous; plenitude; plenty; popular; portion; power; predominating; premium; prepare; prescribed; prescriptive; present; prevailing; prevalent; process; proportion; prosaic; provenance; provenience; provide; provision; puree; quantum; quota; race; radical; radix; ration; rations; received; reception; recourse; recruit; reed; regular; regulation; reliance; repertory; replenish; reserve; reservoir; resort; resources; rick; rise; root; scarf; seed; segment; sell; sept; share; shoot; side; slice; society; sort; soup; source; spear; species; spire; split; square; stack; stage; stake; stale; stalk; standard; staple; steel; stem; stereotyped; stirps; stock; stockpile; stocks; store; strain; straw; stuff; subsidize; substance; succession; supplies; supply; support; sureness; surety; tangible; taproot; target; theater; threadbare; tie; timeworn; totem; toy; traditional; treasure; treasury; tribe; trite; truck; trunk; trust; universal; unoriginal; usual; utilize; variety; vaudeville; vein; vernacular; victim; ware; way; wealth; wherewithal; widespread; wildlife; wonted; worn


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    stock banks; stock companies; stock company; stock raising