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How to use stockpile in a sentence

13 example sentences · noun, verb

Stockpile means a supply (especially a large one) of something kept for future use, specifically in case the cost of the item increases or if there a shortage. Example: “Bob had amassed a considerable stockpile of double entendres from his days working as a barker for a strip joint.”

Examples of stockpile by meaning

nounA supply (especially a large one) of something kept for future use, specifically in case the cost of the item increases...

  • The policy was popular with farmers but left Thailand with huge rice stockpiles and caused $8 billion in losses.2017 August 25, Amy Sawitta Lefevre, Panarat Thepgumpanat, “Thailand’s ousted PM Yingluck has fled abroad: sources”, in Reuters, archived...

verbTo accumulate or build up a supply of (something).

  • Shops' shelves were emptied on Friday as people began stockpiling food, with some unable to leave their homes due to the thigh-high snow.2010 February 7, Adam Gabbatt, “Snow storms cause chaos on US east coast”, in The Guardian
  • The RNC entered June with about $72.4 million in cash reserves, nearly five times the $15 million stockpiled by the DNC, as the two parties gear up for gubernatorial races this fall and next year’s costly midterm elections for Congress.2025 June 21, Fredreka Schouten and Arit John, “The DNC’s cash crunch deepens as new filings show Republicans with a huge advantage”, in CNN

More sentences with stockpile

  • Bob had amassed a considerable stockpile of double entendres from his days working as a barker for a strip joint.From the entry barker
  • The girls were already bagging fairy floss, and stockpiling it as fast as they could.2009, Rex Ellis, “Cocklebiddy, the Sydney Show and Kybo Station: Go with the Flow” (chapter 3), in Go with the Flow, Kent Town, South…. From the entry fairy floss
  • A last bee, still stockpiling pollen, hums hotly against this Octobral creep of cold.2008, George Elliott Clarke, Blues and Bliss: The Poetry of George Elliott Clarke, page 48. From the entry Octobral
  • The dragline sidecasts material into a 'wet' stockpile located on-shore, immediately adjacent to the excavation.1976, Barbers Point Harbor, Oahu: Environmental Impact Statement. From the entry sidecast
  • Residents say the stores have run out of staple foods like oil and rice due to people stockpiling goods.2022 June 22, “China: Floods in the south force evacuations, destroy property”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 22 Jun…. From the entry Yingde
  • Apple’s mistake in instigating a patent war with Samsung is illustrative of a larger pattern involving large stockpiles of patents.2014 July 4, Evan Jensen, “The Patent Wars”, in Lexology. From the entry never fight a land war in Asia
  • The stockpiles have been acquired over the years for reasons of their criticality and strategicness in relation to the national defense.1977, Senate Committee on Armed Services, General Stockpile Policy, page 58. From the entry strategicness
  • That stockpile of 60% Uranium, if enriched to 90%, which is a relatively easy step, is enough for about nine bombs, according to experts.2025 June 26, Kasra Naji, “When Iran's supreme leader emerges from hiding he will find a very different nation”, in BBC. From the entry enrichment
  • This post examines an element potentially even more frightening—partly because of its nukelike fury, partly because it might be perfectly legal to stockpile this weapon.2010 July 28, Sam Kean, “Hafnium: Building the Doomsday Device of Tomorrow”, in Slate. From the entry nukelike
  • NHS doctors will only be giving the drug out to people with symptoms and don’t want individuals to try stockpiling the drug themselves.2005 September 12, Damian Whitworth, “Urban worrier”, in The Times, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Jan 2026. From the entry chemist's

Meaning of stockpile

  1. noun A supply (especially a large one) of something kept for future use, specifically in case the cost of the item increases or if there a shortage.
  2. noun A supply of nuclear weapons kept by a country; a nuclear stockpile.
  3. noun A pile of coal or ore heaped up on the ground after it has been mined.

Full definition of stockpile

Questions about stockpile in a sentence

How do you use stockpile in a sentence?
Stockpile is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Bob had amassed a considerable stockpile of double entendres from his days working as a barker for a strip joint.”
What is a short sentence with stockpile?
“A last bee, still stockpiling pollen, hums hotly against this Octobral creep of cold.”
What does stockpile mean?
Stockpile means a supply (especially a large one) of something kept for future use, specifically in case the cost of the item increases or if there a shortage.

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