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Example sentences for "stocked"

Lexicographically close words:
stockaded; stockades; stockbroker; stockbrokers; stocke; stockes; stockfish; stockholder; stockholders; stockily
  1. Thrifty fully stocked stands of timber will grow at the rate of 250 or more board feet of lumber per year.

  2. We seldom left the hotel after the first week, except to dine at the Embassy, or spend the afternoon in its cool, shady grounds, where one could while away the weary hours with books and papers from the well-stocked library.

  3. He had a little country-house four or five miles from London always well stocked with girls: in other respects he was a very honest man, and the best chess-player in England.

  4. The Chaudiere country well stocked with game, fish and fruit.

  5. When the Indian finds a tree stocked by the carpenter bird he 'kindles a fire at its base and keeps it up till the tree falls, when he helps himself to the acorns.

  6. Nelson was an apprentice to the shoe-making business, nearly out of his time, was not over-stocked with brains, and lived a mile and a half east of our village.

  7. There was much prejudice among farmers against the new breed; in the Midlands most of the farmers would have nothing to do with them, and 'their grounds were stocked with creatures that would disgrace the meanest lands in the kingdom.

  8. I have been credibly informed that a good farm hath been wholly stocked with poultry, spending the whole crop upon them and keeping severall to attend them, and that it hath redounded to a very considerable improvement'.

  9. He had repaired his house and furnished it, had stocked his farm, and had written for wife and family to join him.

  10. George Edwards had returned a few days before and reported having stocked the new ranch in the Outlet with twelve thousand steers.

  11. As fast as one herd was ready, it moved out under a foreman and fourteen men, one hundred saddle horses, and a well-stocked commissary.

  12. Another one of fifteen men all told was chosen from the relieved lads in making up a surveying party, and taking fifty saddle horses and a well-stocked commissary with us, we started due west.

  13. It was the opinion of the directors of the new company that no dividends should he declared until our range was stocked to its full capacity, or until there was a comfortable surplus.

  14. I readily understood the advantages of a half-stocked range, and expected in the future to allow twenty-five acres in the summer and thirty in the winter to the pasture's holdings.

  15. The pride of possession was mine; with my own hands and abilities had I earned the land, while the overflow from a thousand hills stocked my new ranch.

  16. Then he gave Bjorn a ready-stocked farm at Asolfskal, but he took the farm in the Mark into his own hands.

  17. There was no event in life, from a christening to a marriage, but had some appropriate food or drink in my mother's vocabulary, and no ailment for which she had not some pleasant cure in her well-stocked cupboards.

  18. Langediu told me, that Kadu had planted the yams on Ormed, and after dinner showed me a pretty large field very well stocked with them.

  19. Perhaps Eastwick and its environs, where you heard so very few birds, is not a woodland country, and therefore not stocked with such songsters.

  20. The look of defiance on their countenances, and the well-stocked quivers over their shoulders, told plainly they were chiefs of the bold outlaws who lived by the might of their trusty swords, and their long bows.

  21. Them people was in to see me last week already and offered me a big bargain in velvet suits, but I was all stocked up along that line so I didn't hand them no orders.

  22. They all knelt down, and both mother and children prayed: and when they saw the abundant supplies with which the cart had stocked the house, they believed that God had sent them in answer to their prayers.

  23. Both children and mother were afraid there was some mistake, but the man went on unloading, and stocked the house with food for weeks to come.

  24. Their modus operandi is as follows: They travel with a large Saratoga trunk, which is really well stocked with linen and clothing.

  25. There is a bar at the farther end of the room, which is well stocked with the meanest liquors, and chairs and benches are scattered about.

  26. The bar does a thriving business, and is well stocked with the kind of liquor used in Water street.

  27. There is a chance for everything in this admirably stocked and wonderfully systemized Spiritual and Temporal Army and Navy Store.

  28. Profile Lake is stocked with trout for the benefit of guests of the hotel.

  29. He now began just as vigorous a campaign to have the lake properly stocked with trout.

  30. The lake is well stocked with rainbow trout, some of them descendants of the youngsters which Will G.

  31. Next went a body of archers bearing long bows and quivers well stocked with long arrows.

  32. It must be allowed, however, that the number we took away, when last here, must have thinned them greatly, and at the same time stocked the isle with our articles.

  33. Since they did not destroy those hogs when first in their possession, we cannot suppose they will do it now; so that there is little fear but that this country will in time be stocked with these animals, both in a wild and domestic state.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stocked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.