stockings

Example Sentences

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Back in the States several months later I mailed her three pairs of nylon stockings.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

Plenty of Americans will find a Just Do It T-shirt or a fresh pair of Air Force 1s in their stockings tomorrow.

From Barron's • Dec. 24, 2025

The other DHS clip is a montage of Yuletide cheer — Santa, elves, stockings, dancing — over a sped-up electro-trash remake of Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas is You.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025

Meanwhile, investors may be hoping for some gold and silver in their Christmas stockings.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025

There were always stockings and pink rayon knickers with holes in them hung on a string across the room to dry.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers