stalks
- present tense form of stalk (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Appeared in the December 23, 2025, print edition as 'China Stalks a Hong Kong Dissident'.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025
Stalks of the sometimes-fragrant, late-summer blooms in white or pale lavender are practically incidental to the real show.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 1, 2023
Stalks with bulb-shaped sporangia at the top grow up from the mass.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
Thief of Memory Stalks a Colombian Family YARUMAL, Colombia — Tucked away on a steep street in this rough-hewn mountain town, an old woman found herself diapering her middle-age children.
From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2010
Also the tender Stalks of Sow-thistles done in like manner, are very good and wholsome.
From The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet Stored with all manner of rare receipts for preserving, candying and cookery. Very pleasant and beneficial to all ingenious persons of the female sex by Wolley, Hannah
