sock

Example Sentences

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One smart strategy is to count out six months of expenses and sock that away, then line up more to keep depositing into that account as time rolls forward.

From MarketWatch • May 11, 2026

I make sock monkeys and stuff them with quilt-batting scraps.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026

One kind and patient spectator conscripted to play the school counselor had to remove her shoe to improvise a sock puppet, one of the tools of her empathetic practice.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026

In New York City, authorities and residents were bracing for a direct hit, the first blizzard to sock the city since 2016.

From Barron's • Feb. 21, 2026

Bernard looks like he’s going to cry, and his hands get all fumbly trying to take off the sock, so Coach West helps him.

From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée