How to use stocking in a sentence

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• There’s a hole in my shoe. Her stocking has a hole in it.From the entry hole
• Be careful not to snag your stockings on that concrete bench!From the entry snag
• One could scarcely find any trout in the stream without the stocking program.From the entry scarcely
• I have a run in my stocking.From the entry run
• Shortclothes were worn with long stockings.From the entry shortclothes
• These best-selling under-eye patches are the perfect stocking stuffer—they're designed to soothe, de-puff, and hydrate your skin.2024 October 9, Hannah Oh, Samantha Jones, “Amazon Has So Many Last-Minute Gifts Under $50 on Sale for October Prime Day”, in Cosmopolitan. From the entry de-puff
• It's wonderful that DJs is stocking new and different brands,' wrote one.2022 July 1, J. Peterson, “Kim Kardashian divides Australian fans as 'disappointed' shoppers complain about her Skims clothing line being…. From the entry DJs
• Lisle stockings could be a nuisance, as were hats and gloves.2013, Jane Howells, Leehurst Swan School: A Centenary History, page 16. From the entry gymslip
• We put the stockings over our faces and rush the polone and lock the doors after us.2010, Ruth Rendell, Make Death Love Me. From the entry polone
• Clocks: These are ornamental designs embroidered or woven on to the ankles of stockings.2006, J. Munslow, Kathryn McKelvey, Fashion Source Book, →ISBN, page 231. From the entry clock
• The boy's camisia was probably his “dress-up” wear; the vertical stripe appears on matching stockings.2003, Tom Tierney, Historic Costume: From Ancient Times to the Renaissance, page 58. From the entry camisia
• Dealer (or buying) loaders are gifts offered to resellers for stocking products.2001, Stuart Clark Rogers, Marketing Strategies, Tactics, and Techniques, page 172. From the entry loader
• I'm not wearing breeches beneath my habit, though without a doubt they'd be warmer than my stockings.1999, Mercedes Lackey, editor, Flights of Fantasy (DAW Book Collectors; no. 1141), New York, N.Y.: DAW Books, →ISBN, page 264. From the entry kirtle
• She looks down at her other stocking and starts to ungarter that.1995, Paddy Chayefsky, The Collected Works of Paddy Chayefsky, page 159. From the entry ungarter
• Your best girl is allergic to mistletoe, and all you got in your stocking is a run?1989 December 25, “Grin, Bunky Your Holiday Ain't so Bad”, in Miami Herald. From the entry bunky
• In the stocking should be worn a sgian dubh, on the outer part of the right leg.1980, Geddes MacGregor, “Kilt, Clan, Tartan, and Bagpipe”, in Scotland: An Intimate Portrait, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company…. From the entry sgian dubh
• Fendi's smasheroo short, short fur belted over shorts, worn with ribby stockings, ribbier over-the-knee socks, Oxford ties.1971, Vogue - Volume 158. From the entry ribby
• The nylon stockings are very popular for countrywear, golf, and race-meetings.1952 December, “News in Brief”, in Textile Industries, volume 116, number 12, page 193. From the entry countrywear
• They were dressed in the Earl’s stable colors—scarlet silk body jackets and long scarlet stockings.1948, Marguerite Henry, chapter 22, in King of the Wind, New York: Rand McNally, published 1970, page 163. From the entry body jacket
• Everything from a pair of stockings to a human soul was classifiable as 'lovely' or 'beastly'.1934, George Orwell, chapter 7, in Burmese Days. From the entry classifiable
• The ankle should be supple as a stocking, and “bellowsed” to make sure of suppleness.1916, Roger Pocock, chapter 6, in Horses, 2nd edition, London: John Murray, published 1917, pages 170–171. From the entry bellows
• I had a vision of a cotton stocking and an elastic-sided boot.1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry elastic-sided
• He stands six-foot-seven in his stockings, and the chasseurs are hardly less tall than he.1911 October 26, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford Love Story, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company…. From the entry chasseur
• The longlimbed girls and their black stockings.2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 23, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 127. From the entry longlimbed
• What will kids find in their stockings this COVID Christmas?2020 December 16, Mel Melcon, “Santa is getting socially creative in this distant Christmas season”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles…. From the entry Mr. Claus
• Their snow-white knickers and crimson stockings changed uniforms forever.2015, Jim Bresnahan, Play It Again: Baseball Experts on What Might Have Been, page 14. From the entry baseballdom
• The pair have dressed up in skimpy Mrs Santa Claus lingerie - accessorised by some rather racy Christmas stockings.2010 December 24, Jody Thompson, “A very Kerry Christmas! Kerry Katona and Only Way Is Essex star Amy Childs dress up as sexy Mrs Santas”…. From the entry Mrs Santa
• You've got a huge ladder in your stockings.2008, Åsa Larsson, translated by Marlaine Delargy, The Black Path, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Dell, →ISBN. From the entry ladder
• The hosts, Susanne Bartsch, who wore a gold minidress, and Kenny Kenny, in a one-legged black body stocking, danced.2007 January 14, Melena Ryzik, “Enough About You”, in New York Times. From the entry unruined
• White embroidery, lace, delicate tuckings, and elaborate ribbings rioted across the white of his short doubtlet, breech, and tight stockings.2006, Karen Harper, The Last Boleyn. From the entry tucking
• One could take them for threads of wool like those which you pull out of an old ravelly stocking.2006, J. Henri Fabre, The Life of the Fly: Easyread Comfort Edition, page 134. From the entry ravelly
• She stuffed a red stocking with newspaper balls.2004, David Mitchell, “The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish”, in Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN, pages…. From the entry devilette
• A couple of shifts, some clean pantalettes, stockings, a spare pair of shoes: a suitcase is soon full.2002, Michel Faber, chapter 34, in The Crimson Petal and the White, Orlando, Fla.: Harcourt, →ISBN, part 5 (The World at Large), page 805. From the entry pantalettes
• That Ida has dressed herself in a collapsible bathrobe and silk stockings is not only accommodating but almost romancelike.2000, Kate Millett, Sexual politics. From the entry romancelike
• I'd like to look in my stocking and find a shapely elfette eager to scrub me under a hot shower.1989, Charles Nelson, Panthers in the Skins of Men, page 17. From the entry elfette
• My bureau drawers were knotted with nylon stockings and "thigh hi's," my closet was cluttered with little pointed shoes.1987 April 11, Pamela Wescott, “Judy Grahn: Pursuing the Work We Want”, in Gay Community News, page 8. From the entry thigh-high
• Fendi's smasheroo short, short fur belted over shorts, worn with ribby stockings, ribbier over-the-knee socks, Oxford ties .1971, Vogue - Volume 158. From the entry smasheroo
• Used to be a bore to buy stockings.1967 October 10, Nan Duskin, “close-up: legs”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, volume 277, number 102, Philadelphia, Pa.: Triangle…. From the entry fishnetty
• Gimbels is scintillating with last minute stocking stuffer ideas!1945 Dec. 21, "Last . . . But Not Least" (display advertisement), Milwaukee Journal, p. 45 (retrieved 25 Jan. 2010). From the entry stocking stuffer

Meaning of stocking

1. noun A soft garment, usually knit or woven, worn on the foot and lower leg under shoes or other footwear.
2. noun A broad ring of a different fur colour on the lower part of the leg of a quadruped.
3. noun A knitted hood of cotton thread which is eventually converted by a special process into an incandescent mantle for gas lighting.

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Questions about stocking in a sentence

How do you use stocking in a sentence?

Stocking is used as a noun. For example: “There’s a hole in my shoe. Her stocking has a hole in it.”

What is a short sentence with stocking?

“a pair of stockings”

What does stocking mean?

Stocking means a soft garment, usually knit or woven, worn on the foot and lower leg under shoes or other footwear.