sock
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Uganda's Samuel Simba Cherop lost his shoe and had to run the remaining 15 laps with an increasingly soggy sock on his left foot.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Benchmark U.S. natural-gas futures are trading about 10% below year-ago levels thanks to strong domestic production and comfortable spring weather that enabled traders to sock away fuel in storage caverns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Wearing a handmade sock puppet with large googly eyes she found at Walmart, Esquivel read “Snuggle Puppy!” in a high-pitched voice as her teenage daughter recorded.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
Asked whether he would indeed be the president's sock puppet, Warsh said: "Absolutely not."
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026
I crouched inside the sock and held my breath.
From "The Witches" by Roald Dahl
"I think she is going to blow our socks off," Gyllenhaal told reporters.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
She’s packed her suitcase too, full of socks she’ll throw away by the end of tour, and a wardrobe almost entirely of black.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
There are hundreds of specialised manufacturing towns in China, producing items ranging from bicycles to socks.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
A "pro" version of the adult shirt costs £90, with a matching pair of shorts and socks costing a total of £136.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
He hadn’t taken off his shirt, or his socks either.
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
On August 18, 2017, a new age in astronomy dawned, appropriately, with a tweet: “New LIGO. Source with optical counterpart. Blow your sox off!”
From Scientific American ● Aug. 21, 2019
On 18 August, astronomer J. Craig Wheeler of the University of Texas at Austin began the public rumour mill when he tweeted, “New LIGO. Source with optical counterpart. Blow your sox off!”
From Nature ● Aug. 23, 2017
He confessed in 1951 about the overload, “Two drawers are full, so I’m moving my sox over.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2015
“They’ve got a couple of big hits the last couple of nights,” said Red sox catcher A.J.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 5, 2014
"This is great luck," he remarked, seating himself in the opposite easy chair with an enforced extension of immaculate pumps and silken sox.
From Till the Clock Stops by J. J. (John Joy) Bell
Vietnamese savers have socked away around 400 tonnes of the precious metal at home, according to government auditors.
From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 2026
She also opened a brokerage account and socked away the money from her pandemic- stimulus check.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2025
CJ Abrams socked a two-run home run in the seventh off Dodgers reliever Jack Dreyer, his second in as many games.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2025
The Mariners catcher will forever be a part of team lore thanks to the walkoff homer he socked two Septembers ago to end Seattle’s playoff drought.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 5, 2024
She sat up straight in her chair and put both socked feet flat on the carpet.
From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell
The average household is socking away a third of its income, compared with less than 5% in the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 1, 2026
You say you don’t have any money saved, but when you start socking away funds — which you should do as soon as possible — I’d recommend getting a high-yield savings account.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 12, 2026
Lenders in countries as far away as Germany and Japan are socking away hundreds of millions of dollars in anticipation of loans going bad.
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2024
The first issue of Captain America featured Cap socking Adolf Hitler in the jaw, some nine months before the U.S. entered WWII.
From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2024
This was better than socking him in the arm.
From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia
