- present participle of stock.
stocking
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That short supply means retailers may soon start stocking "sun-tanned" cauliflower because "their biggest nightmare is empty shelves", she said.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
You may miss stocking up in well-lit superstores but enjoy getting to know shopkeepers who run tiny bodegas.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
Hundreds of people milled around a popular market in La Paz, stocking up on food products that had only just arrived.
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026
If you’re like me and still love stocking up on paper coupons, use them!
From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2026
A knitter working on a very long Christmas stocking that dragged behind her on the floor.
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
He listed the goodies money could buy: sausages, ham, coffee, bacon, soap, ladies’ stockings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026
Women would wear dresses and stockings; men would don suits and hats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026
The other DHS clip is a montage of Yuletide cheer — Santa, elves, stockings, dancing — over a sped-up electro-trash remake of Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas is You.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025
Drapes from Sandringham House in Norfolk have been recycled into 25 stockings by a sewing bee group.
From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2025
They smoothed the pretty dress and admired the red flannel stockings and the gaiters, and the curly woolen hair.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
