STALK in a Sentence
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67 example sentences for STALK, such as:
1. She was stalked by an obsessed fan.
2. We know the rapist stalks his victims at night.
3. The lion stalked its prey through the long grass.
4. The poor flowers hung over, limp on their stalks.
5. I was obliged to stalk from the room in righteous fury.
2. We know the rapist stalks his victims at night.
3. The lion stalked its prey through the long grass.
4. The poor flowers hung over, limp on their stalks.
5. I was obliged to stalk from the room in righteous fury.
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Meanings and Examples of STALK
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stalk
n. material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
v. follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to
Classic Sentence: (55 in 4 pages)
1 Prissy picked lazily, spasmodically, complaining of her feet, her back, her internal miseries, her complete weariness, until her mother took a cotton stalk to her and whipped her until she screamed.
2 For as the mightiest elephant is but a terrier to Leviathan, so, compared with Leviathan's tail, his trunk is but the stalk of a lily.
3 They ain't dried fish, and they never grew on stalk or vine.
4 But in Black Hawk the scene of human life was spread out shrunken and pinched, frozen down to the bare stalk.
5 There was no wastage whatever; the hens and ducks with their sharp eyes had gathered up the very last stalk.
6 One day, as Mollie strolled blithely into the yard, flirting her long tail and chewing at a stalk of hay, Clover took her aside.
7 He could trace its shadow in the gloom, supply the smallest item of the outline, and note how stiff and solemn it seemed to stalk along.
8 He walked past the couch to the open window, and held up the drooping stalk of a moss-rose, looking down at the dainty blend of crimson and green.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
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9 Freddy Malins also took a stalk of celery and ate it with his pudding.
10 The sudden flashes of colour reminded him of the gleam of the opal-and-iris-throated birds that flutter round the tall honeycombed Campanile, or stalk, with such stately grace, through the dim, dust-stained arcades.
11 Each stalk served as a perch for a grasshopper, which regaled the passers by through this Egyptian scene with its strident, monotonous note.
12 She was twirling in her fingers the thin stalk of a wildflower, a light mantle had slipped down to her elbows, and the wide gray ribbons of her hat were clinging to her bosom.
13 Each student carried a stalk of sugar-cane with some open bolls of cotton fastened to the end of it.
14 They slid on, in and out between the stalks, silver; pink; gold; splashed; streaked; pied.
15 The poor flowers hung over, limp on their stalks.
Example Sentence:
1 I was obliged to stalk from the room in righteous fury.
2 All she could see, when she looked down, was an immense length of neck, which seemed to rise like a stalk out of a sea of green leaves that lay far below her.
3 All she could see, when she looked down, was an immense length of neck, which seemed to rise like a stalk out of a sea of green leaves.
4 He's older, a little more craggy and definitely a lot more wrinkled, but Arnold Schwarzenegger is about to stalk across movie screens once more
5 A single pale blue flower grows up from each joint on a long stalk.
6 We know the rapist stalks his victims at night.
7 Remove the stalks from the cherries before you eat them.
8 He stalked his victim as she walked home, before attacking and robbing her.
9 She was stalked by an obsessed fan.
10 The lion stalked its prey through the long grass.
11 The possibility of another stalking horse challenge this autumn cannot be ruled out.
12 I think the development is a stalking horse for exploitation of the surrounding countryside.