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Example sentences for "stow"

Lexicographically close words:
stoutnesse; stove; stoved; stovepipe; stoves; stowage; stowaway; stowaways; stowed; stowing
  1. There's a heap of stuff up there, and we want to figure on where we're going to stow it all in the new place.

  2. Stow in it all the provisions it will hold together with some casks of water.

  3. But hadn't we better stow away these things the men have brought along?

  4. Hurry along, and stow that stuff away; here come the others now.

  5. Stow yourselves away and hang on; I'll wait here until you are all over.

  6. Stow found a building on the quay which he identified with their hall.

  7. In this last statement, however, Stow himself had probably built too rashly upon a mere name; for no barges can have come any distance up the stream for centuries before its final bricking up.

  8. Come, Jack, stow this away in your inside as fast as you can, that you may have strength to go on as soon as it is time to start.

  9. The sooner we can stow ourselves away in it the better.

  10. A hungry man is said to STOW his food rapidly.

  11. Stow just refers to the story, but says any evidence had been destroyed, and he was evidently disgusted at a then recent "improvement.

  12. While deriving this ward's name from a brook, Stow says that Lombard Street was so called of the Longobard merchants about 1300.

  13. Stow says they were slain in a place called the Church of the Danes.

  14. The massacre of the Danes at the "Bura church" must be the same event as is noticed by Stow in his account of St. Clement Danes, and also by Matthew of Westminster under the year 1012.

  15. At the meeting of Cheap, Cornhill, and Lombard Street was the Stocks Market, which Stow says was the centre of the city; here stood the stocks and pillory.

  16. Stow tells us that the first mayor was Henry Fitzalwin Fitzleofstan of London Stone, and there is ample confirmation that his father was called Alwin.

  17. The Langbourne described by Stow is entirely mythical.

  18. Stow says he found it named in a charter given by King Edgar to the Cnihten Gild, but it seems that he founded this on a later legend which professed to recite the terms of such a charter.

  19. Stow agrees with the chronicle, and puts the institution of the mayoralty in the first year of Richard I.

  20. Stow says that Cripplesgate is mentioned in a life of St. Edmund, which tells that the Saint's body was brought through this gate about 1010; but see Aldgate above.

  21. Stow gave a list of the Portreeves from the time of the Conquest.

  22. The work of arranging the stuff in the dhow was the most difficult of all, because we dared not light a lantern, yet we also dared not stow things carelessly for fear of confusion when the hour of action came.

  23. Y'see there's no jail where they could stow a white woman and observe the decencies.

  24. With tight packing this craft ought to stow fifteen hundred.

  25. Stow that," said the quick-eyed sailor, as he brought the glass to bear in a moment.

  26. Here, in his zeal to stow his cargo, he became quite unintelligible, and I again asked the midshipman to enlighten us.

  27. Have one of the men stow his dunnage there also; and tell him if he shows his nose on deck until I give him permission, he shall have another taste of the same.

  28. The older men of the crew, whom it would have been dangerous to have kept in the water, remained on board with the mate, to stow the hides away, as fast as they were brought off by the boats.

  29. By this time the main topsail was among the things that have been, and we went aloft to stow away the remnant of the last sail of all those which were on the ship twenty-four hours before.

  30. You cannot stow her in the long pack, and the moment you let her go her tongue will clack!

  31. I would get her into our hands, hold her fast, stow her somewhere where she'll not speak!

  32. Petersen had a bed of eider-down, in which he was wont snugly to stow himself at night.

  33. Away the little raft sailed, crumbling as it went, assuring its passengers that they must all stow away in their one boat or soon be dropped in the sea.

  34. What was said I do not know; but the result was, that the young man came forward and told me that he had been entered as one of the crew, requesting me to show him where he was to stow his chest and bag.

  35. As many boats as the schooner could stow on deck: were hoisted on board; the rest went ahead to tow her out.

  36. So crowded was the place during the fair, that there was scarcely room to stow the chests of money!

  37. We stow them away in the hold, after the manner of packing sardines in a box.

  38. Better foller your new man, lady, and let him stow you in safety.

  39. It was that he had been allowed to retain and stow in his waist-belt his little packet of pepper-cress seed--a favour for which he thanked his persecutors with tears in his eyes.

  40. Their first concern was to throw the dead overboard and stow the wounded in the hold.

  41. Oh, stow away your pretty speeches and take back your hand.

  42. Atkinson, Robert Dowe was a merchant tailor, and a benefactor; he assisted John Stow and others.

  43. Then, having deposited his gun on the ground, leaning up against a tree, he next proceeded to coil up that valuable cord, and stow the same away inside his khaki jacket.

  44. It took all hands to deal with each sail separately, and I helped to stow the fore-topsail.

  45. The main-royal halliards were let go, and a couple of hands went up to stow the bit of canvas that was thumping among the clouds.

  46. By nightfall the place was swarming with people, and the problem was where to stow away so many for the night.

  47. Mrs. Stow gave the opening address, after which delegates[502] from various localities made interesting reports.

  48. Stow it, you young cub," replied Eugene, not turning to him.


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