Sentence examples for stocking from inspiring English sources
The phrase "stocking" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a type of clothing worn on the legs or as a term related to inventory or supplies. Example: "She hung the Christmas stocking by the fireplace, hoping it would be filled with gifts."
noun
A soft garment, usually knit or woven, worn on the foot and lower leg under shoes or other footwear.
And, alas, two weeks after I had berated the JW Anderson sales assistant for not stocking a blue and white striped menswear shirt I wanted badly on its womenswear rails.
By Christmas morning there is a full stocking, an empty glass, a few crumbs and most of a carrot (for some reason Rudolph never seems to be very hungry).
This Christmas Eve, just like every year, we shall prepare for bedtime by hanging a stocking at the end of the bed, leaving a mince pie and a small glass of malt whisky for Santa (he prefers an aged Islay in our house; you can keep your sherry) and, of course, a carrot for Rudolph.
When I'd found a factory, I came back to London and spoke to Waitrose and Sainsbury's about stocking Savse, but they didn't go for the product right away.
That little cherub is now at an age where Santa stuffs his stocking with a copy of Zombie Slaughterbastard III and some weapons-grade Clearasil, while his little brother, aged six, is quietly, forensically piecing together evidence of parental mendacity out of one eye while the other glances out of the window in hope of catching a glimpse of a reindeer.
Food and drink There's a licensed shop on site, stocking a good range of food and camping necessities, as well as Eddy's cafe (also licensed).
Llangollen remains a cultured freewheeling, cosmopolitan kind of place for one so small, tucked down a Welsh valley, a spot that still attracts hordes to express their own kind of freedom, whether that be drooling over its crags and ruined castles, dancing a jig to Ladysmith Black Mambazo in the International Eisteddfod, or frantic stocking-knitting.
With many Democrats in a populist mood, the old boy could expect harsh questions about the unequal nature of American stocking-fillers (whoopee cushions for the masses, iPods for the children of the 1%), and how that tallies with his privileged status as a tax-exempt, offshore provider of Christmas cheer.
The second is that intelligent machines have reached a new social frontier: knowledge workers are now in the eye of the storm, much as stocking-weavers were in the days of Ned Ludd, the original Luddite.
The text is the same in each, only the pictures are different.The British lists, meanwhile, are dominated (as they traditionally are at this time of year) by that reliable old stocking-filling staple, the annual.
In 2014 it said inept shelf-stocking cost it $3 billion a year more than its planned pay rise.
