Sentence examples for have been sock from inspiring English sources

"Some of the bad side effects have been sock puppetry, the new wariness of Waterstones about hosting author events, and attempts by some individuals to boost their books in Amazon rankings by methods – largely beyond my comprehension – that have little to do with the work's actual success or popularity.

There, a portion of the proceeds of the diamond industry have been socked away for almost two decades.

"They have been socking it to him every way you turn," Mrs. McCollum said of the authorities.

As a result, customers everywhere have been socked with ruinous interest rates, penalties and fees that would once have been illegal under state usury laws.

Many of those laid off this year have been socked with another setback as the value of their past compensation -- much of it based on shares of company stock, including 401 k)'s -- has plunged.

"You don't doubt that the lobby supporting the enactment of same-sex marriage laws in different states is politically powerful, do you?" he asked Roberta Kaplan, the New York lawyer representing Edie Windsor, the captivating 83-year-old who argued that she would not have been socked with a whopping estate tax bill if her spouse had been named Theo instead of Thea.

A broad array of industry groups that have been socked by big class-action lawsuits, including health insurance companies and life insurers, argue that the system is being abused by lawyers who increasingly file major cases in a few out-of-the-way jurisdictions that have sympathetic judges and juries.

Taxpayers have been socking all sorts of assets — including cash, stock and real estate — into limited partnerships, and then claiming their stakes are worth 25 %, 50 or even 90% less than the underlying assets for gift and evente tax purposes.

Swathes of the U.S. South and Midwest have been socked by wild weather this spring.

Other occupations that have been socked include restaurant cooks (-7.1 percent), food preparation workers (-5.2) and maids and housekeepers (-5.0).

The photos depict men in business garb recoiling as if they had been socked seconds before their pictures were taken.