stalks
- present tense form of stalk (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Many of the fossils display unusual combinations of features, such as tentacles, stalks, attachment discs, and feeding structures that could be turned inside out.
From Science Daily • Apr. 6, 2026
It stalks quietly, tests its prey, strikes, then retreats, only to circle back again.
From Barron's • Apr. 2, 2026
A lonely coyote stalks the barren ground around oil pump jacks; a dead deer, its eye milky white, lies on a fern-like blanket of boughs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
The stalks have been saved for compost – which Nina says she's considering turned into some kind of furniture.
From BBC • Jan. 21, 2026
“I wouldn’t care if I had to climb the stalks and ride them down to the ground.”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
