Example Sentences

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It warned of a "Christmas meltdown" in parcel and letter deliveries, and said millions of items of mail had been stacking up before the strikes.

From BBC • Dec. 8, 2022

An old woman who had been stacking the bread stood back when she saw them, her eyes fearful.

From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren

She had been stacking pillows and blankets as they cleared the gym floor for the blood drive, right around the time Ivy had been looking for her notebook.

From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake

They were stuck behind an interminable line of other taxis, limousines, cars and mini- busses that had been stacking for ten minutes.

From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Schwartau, Winn

I kissed Donna's upraised finger and, turning to leave again, noticed that she had been stacking more than just blocks.

From Four and Twenty Beds by Vogel, Nancy