sock

Example Sentences

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One kind and patient spectator conscripted to play the school counselor had to remove her shoe to improvise a sock puppet, one of the tools of her empathetic practice.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026

In New York City, authorities and residents were bracing for a direct hit, the first blizzard to sock the city since 2016.

From Barron's • Feb. 21, 2026

"It still managed to have its sock on the foot which is quite funny."

From BBC • Feb. 11, 2026

Here’s the first sock in the jaw: In order to pay off your card, you’d have to take almost $67,500 from your retirement account.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 28, 2025

He knelt and put his wife’s sock and shoe on her left foot.

From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret