Example Sentences

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The emails and letters complaining about unpaid salaries have been stacking up for months.

From New York Times • Oct. 11, 2021

Residents have been stacking sandbags or fleeing to higher ground in preparation for torrential downpours, with heavy flooding expected once the storm makes landfall from the Gulf of Mexico either late Friday or early Saturday.

From Fox News • Jul. 12, 2019

But opponents have been stacking the line of scrimmage more to stop him, an approach that has become more effective since mid-November.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 18, 2011

In the opening scene, Irving is furtively unwrapping her elder daughter’s wedding presents, which have been stacking up in the living room of their Connecticut colonial.

From BusinessWeek • Oct. 14, 2011

"You know the young tenderfoot gent what I have been stacking up against—the one what I spoke to you about?"

From Frank Merriwell's Backers The Pride of His Friends by Standish, Burt L.