stock up
Example Sentences
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When I get paid once a month, I pay my rent for the month and stock up on food, so I have a place to sleep and enough to eat.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
App Store, sending Meta’s stock up 11% on Monday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Households should stock up on food to prepare for extreme weather as the strongest El Niño event in a generation develops over the Pacific Ocean, a government minister has warned.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
From the first hint of cold winter mornings, supermarkets and pharmacies begin heavy marketing to coax us to stock up on vitamin C to get through the cold and flu season.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
My mom likes to stock up on frozen food before she goes into production on a show.
From "The Fourteenth Goldfish" by Jennifer L. Holm
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