SOCK in a Sentence

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44 example sentences for SOCK, such as:

1. Please darn the hole in my sock.
2. I put on a new pair of nylon socks.
3. There is a hole in the toe of my sock.
4. She likes to wear woolen socks in winter.
5. You're going to have to pull your socks up.

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 Meanings and Examples of SOCK
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sock
 n.  plowshare; short stocking reaching a point between ankle and knee; hard blow or punch; comic drama
Classic Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
1  And Jo shook the blue army sock till the needles rattled like castanets, and her ball bounded across the room.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER ONE
2  No stockings hung at the fireplace, and for a moment she felt as much disappointed as she did long ago, when her little sock fell down because it was crammed so full of goodies.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWO
3  It flew open, and there he stood in his dressing gown, with a big blue sock on one hand and a darning needle in the other.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
4  He didn't seem at all ashamed of it, for when I explained and hurried on, he waved his hand, sock and all, saying in his loud, cheerful way.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
5  I had been sitting near this door, finishing off the last sock, and trying to understand what he said to a new scholar, who is as stupid as I am.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
6  But Jo had her own eyes to take care of, and feeling that they could not be trusted, she prudently kept them on the little sock she was knitting, like a model maiden aunt.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
7  Trembling they obeyed, even Pitty picking up a sock and holding it in shaking fingers while her eyes, wide as a frightened child's went around the circle for an explanation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
8  Kennicott drew from the injured leg the thick red "German sock," the innumerous other socks of gray and white wool, then the spiral bandage.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
9  Grandmother chuckled and drove her bright needle across a hole in Otto's sock.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIII
10  The ladies were making uniforms, knitting socks and rolling bandages, and the men were drilling and shooting.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
11  She had knitted socks and baby caps and afghans and mufflers and tatted yards of lace and painted china hair receivers and mustache cups.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
12  It was a warm morning and Melanie sat on the vine-shaded porch, her mending basket piled high with socks.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVII
13  A large brick-colored Norwegian takes off his shoes, grunts in relief, and props his feet in their thick gray socks against the seat in front of him.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
14  She was not much disturbed when for hours he sat about the living-room in his honest socks.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
15  We have to darn socks, and yet we're not content to think of nothing but socks and darning-cotton.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
Example Sentence:
1  Please darn the hole in my sock.
2  There is a hole in the toe of my sock.
3  I opened up the package of newer needles to do the first sock, which is the one on the left and it looks perfect.
4  She likes to wear woolen socks in winter.
5  She fished out a pair of David's socks for her cold feet.
6  His teachers told him to pull his socks up, or he'd undoubtedly fail his exam.
7  When I was little I used to like sliding on the polished floor in my socks.
8  I put on a new pair of nylon socks.
9  If they want promotion, United have got to pull their socks up.
10  You're going to have to pull your socks up.
11  Good woolen socks are hard to find in the rural market.