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How to use stalk in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Stalk means the stem or main axis of a plant. Example: “My ex-girlfriend is stalking me.”

Examples of stalk by meaning

nounThe stem or main axis of a plant.

  • a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp

verbTo approach slowly and quietly in order not to be discovered when getting closer.

  • But they had already discovered that he could be bullied, and they had it their own way; and presently Selwyn lay prone upon the nursery floor, impersonating a ladrone while pleasant shivers chased themselves over Drina, whom he was stalking.1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC

verbTo (try to) follow or contact someone constantly, often resulting in harassment.ᵂᵖ.

  • My ex-girlfriend is stalking me.
  • villages stalked by the threat of famine

verbOf a person's social media activity: to look through thoroughly or obsessively; to keep tabs on, generally avoiding...

  • Hate when I'm stalking someone's Insta and I like one of their old pics.2016 April 8, @JVCKJ, Twitter

More sentences with stalk

  • Internal hairs occur in the flower stalk of the yellow frog lily (Nuphar).From the entry hair
  • The cat viewed the cheap supermarket catfood with disdain and stalked away.From the entry disdain
  • Jack is so sketchy. I think he's stalking me.From the entry sketchy
  • Overhearing the insult, he stalked woundedly out of the room.From the entry woundedly
  • That scene in the movie where the killer is stalking his victim made my hair stand on end.From the entry make someone's hair stand on end
  • The oat stalks made good straw.From the entry oat
  • Adnate mushroom gills are broadly attached to the stalk slightly above the bottom of the gill, with most of the gill fused to the stem.From the entry adnate
  • Grandpa nods, and I watch, as the boy breaks off a stalk, and eats it raw!2022, Susan E. Erikson, My Mother and Other New Englanders: A Legacy of Faith, Wipf and Stock Publishers. From the entry rhubab
  • A tiny cub is learning the art of stalking a little too well it seems.2019 October 9, "Tiny cub gives lion a huge fright", Hindustan Times. From the entry stalking
  • Sun Capital’s stalking horse bid is currently valued at $75 million.2016 July 6, Robert Weisman, “Pfizer makes ‘stalking horse’ bankruptcy bid for Bind Therapeutics”, in The Boston Globe, retrieved 06 Apr…. From the entry stalking horse
  • We're a lion sitting under the tree, watching the hyenas as they stalk our territory.2015, Jeremy Gutsche, Better and Faster: The Proven Path to Unstoppable Ideas, Crown, →ISBN, page 15. From the entry stand up
  • The Emperor also gave the family three fraises, or stalked strawberries, for their coat of arms.2015, Howard Belton, A History of the World in Five Menus. From the entry fraise
  • There, an overzealous chubby-chaser stalks him, literally chasing him around the bathhouse.2014, Jason Whitesel, Fat Gay Men: Girth, Mirth, and the Politics of Stigma, New York University Press, →ISBN, page 10. From the entry chubby chaser
  • Apples were washed, then tipped, stalks and all, into the crusher and reduced to pulp.2013 October 28, John Vallins, “Apples of Concord”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry apple
  • Those women that stalk us have to be some kind of sick.2012, Blaize Clement, The cat sitter's pajamas, 1st edition, New York: Minotaur Books. From the entry some kind of
  • Hardneck garlic bolts, which means it produces a single flower stalk, also known as a scape.2011, Trina Clickner, A Miscellany of Garlic: From Paying Off Pyramids and Scaring Away Tigers to Inspiring Courage and Curing Hiccups…. From the entry bolt
  • You can use the flesh, the small leaves, even the stalk.2011, Tracey Lawson, A Year in the Village of Eternity, →ISBN, page 156. From the entry zucchina
  • "I mean, what kind of freakazoid perv would go stalking women half his age over the Internet?"2010, Lindsay Faith Rech, It Started With a Dare, Graphia, →ISBN. From the entry freakazoid
  • Adult snakeflies stalk their prey in a manner similar to snakes.2009, David Hugh Kattes, Insects of Texas: a Practical Guide, page 109. From the entry snakefly
  • Obama’s candidacy as a stalking horse to justify a government clampdown.2008 August 27, Kirk Johnson, Eric Lichtblau, “Officials See No ‘Credible Threat’ to Obama in Racist Rants”, in New York Times. From the entry stalking horse
  • Gary Ehrlich stalks the hallways of Northeast conventions and assorted filk conventions.2008, “Denvention 3: Program Participant Biographies”, in The Fanac Fan History Project, archived from the original on 21 Apr 2014. From the entry mundania
  • Victims of cyberstalking experience increased psychological distress compared to stalking victims in general.2007, Debra A. Pinals, Stalking : Psychiatric Perspectives and Practical Approaches, →ISBN, page 219. From the entry cyberstalking
  • "I was wondering if you had any crazy nutso guy stalking you, or something."2005, G. R. Kirby, Sow the Storm. From the entry nutso
  • He started bleating to me this morning aboot being stretched on this hippy stalk.1998, Irvine Welsh, Filth, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 140. From the entry operator
  • I have cut maize stalks or green plants with which he means to choke the flames.1998, Nuruddin Farah, chapter 3, in Secrets, Penguin, published 1999, page 67. From the entry choke
  • His knees clacked together like stalks of ribbon cane rattling in a high wind.1994, Joe R. Lansdale, “Bubba Ho-Tep”, in The Best of Joe R. Lansdale, San Francisco: Tachyon Publications, published 2010, pages 51–52. From the entry ribbon cane
  • The private eye stalked the surgeon for several months but always seemed to be one step behind.1993, Flemming, Laraine E, chapter 8, in Reading for Results, page 390. From the entry eye-stalk
  • Still, as silently and ruthlessly as the predator he was stalking, he moved forward.1989, Jennifer Greene, chapter 1, in Night of the Hunter, Silhouette Books, page 10. From the entry man-scent
  • Yuccas are large, impressive plants with tough, leathery swordlike leaves and towering stalks of white cupshaped flowers.1987, Rita Buchanan, “Plant Fibers for Spinning and Stuffing”, in A Weaver's Garden, Loveland, Colo.: Interweave Press, →ISBN, page 51. From the entry yucca
  • One day I witnessed our kitten bravely stalk and kill one of my most amenable, non-threatening houseslippers.1987, Susan Lenzkes, A silver pen for cloudy days, →ISBN, page 38. From the entry houseslipper
  • Roots, stalks, leaves contain an acrid narcotic, superbine, as well as colchicine and choline.1964, Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice. From the entry colchicine
  • She picked up the limp sprout and squeezed her thumb up its tiny stalk.1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC. From the entry ooze
  • "Your Highness knows him better than I do," and he stalked off up the stairs.1956, Tiffany Thayer, Tiffany Thayer's Mona Lisa; I. The Prince of Taranto: A Fiction in Three Volumes, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Dial…. From the entry livid
  • People were attracted to him as bees are attracted to cosmos or dahlia stalks.1947, R[asipuram] K[rishnaswami Iyer] Narayan[aswami], “An Astrologer’s Day”, in An Astrologer’s Day and Other Stories, London: Eyre &…. From the entry cosmos
  • There is also produced each year at the end of a stalk one new storage tuber.1918, Royal Society of South Australia, Transactions, Volumes 42-44, page 3. From the entry storage tuber

Meaning of stalk

  1. noun The stem or main axis of a plant.
  2. noun The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle of a plant.
  3. noun Something resembling the stalk of a plant, such as the stem of a quill.

Full definition of stalk

Questions about stalk in a sentence

How do you use stalk in a sentence?
Stalk is used as a noun and verb. For example: “My ex-girlfriend is stalking me.”
What is a short sentence with stalk?
“My ex-girlfriend is stalking me.”
What does stalk mean?
Stalk means the stem or main axis of a plant.

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