Example Sentences

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By late 2025, the company said it had closed the last of its so-called shadow factories devoted to fixing, maintaining and updating planes that had stacked up in recent years.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

Back on the street, Langer noted how vendors crowd the sidewalk, and pointed to one spot where a produce dealer had stacked boxes of potatoes on the street.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 24, 2024

They had lined the dirt floor with cardboard and a mat and had stacked mattresses on top of each other.

From Reuters • Sep. 14, 2023

On Sunday, the official Xinhua news agency said, the roof in Qiqihar in Heilongjiang Province collapsed because builders of an adjacent complex had stacked construction material on the gym’s roof, violating regulations.

From New York Times • Jul. 24, 2023

They were going to the next place where neighbors had stacked their wheat and wanted the machines to thresh it.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder