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

Asked whether he would indeed be the president's sock puppet, Warsh said: "Absolutely not."

From BBC • Apr. 21, 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

It didn’t work: By early this year many sections of the bridge were littered with locks and other rubbish, including unused tampons, a foot influencer’s single sock and a pill bottle with a Hungarian label.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

Nothing littered the floor, not even one dirty sock.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas