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Example sentences for "stockily"

Lexicographically close words:
stocked; stockes; stockfish; stockholder; stockholders; stockinet; stocking; stockinged; stockingless; stockings
  1. Cap'n Wing stood stockily on wide-spread legs, watching, joining his voice now and then to the uproar.

  2. Kissed her, and thrust her away, and stumped ashore, and went stockily off along the wharf and out of sight, never looking back.

  3. The trail was narrow, and Brouillard unconsciously set a pace which was almost inhospitable for a stockily built man whose tendency was toward increasing waist measures.

  4. Mr. Nichols suggests the following field characters: The purple sandpiper is a stockily built bird, which stands low and has a moderately long bill.

  5. It is larger than the former, more stockily built and has a shorter, thicker bill, which is yellowish at the base.

  6. He was a stockily built young Irishman, and looked decidedly formidable, especially when our poor little David appeared a moment later, with no other preparation than his coat and cap off and pants rolled up.

  7. He was stockily built, with stout legs and short, powerful arms and hands.

  8. Holding a candle above his head, and peering at us through the dim light that it cast, was a short, stockily built, bearded man in his shirt sleeves and wearing hairy sealskin trousers and boots.

  9. In our old school geographies we used to see them pictured as stockily built little fellows.


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