Stalk is an English word with synonyms like stalking or pursue. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Stalk in a sentence
Related words
Stalk meaning
- The stem or main axis of a plant.
- The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle of a plant.
- Something resembling the stalk of a plant, such as the stem of a quill.
Synonyms of Stalk
Using Stalk
- The main meaning on this page is: The stem or main axis of a plant. | The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle of a plant. | Something resembling the stalk of a plant, such as the stem of a quill.
- Useful related words include: stalking, pursue, follow, hunting.
- In the example corpus, stalk often appears in combinations such as: to stalk, the stalk, stalk and.
Context around Stalk
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 12 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Stalk
- In this selection, "stalk" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, pituitary, infundibular, corn, residue, pops and kaya stand out and add context to how "stalk" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a dried stalk pops up and a whole stalk is gone. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "stalk" sits close to words such as assigning, awakened and babylonian, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with stalk
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Irena grows jealous of this other woman and begins to stalk her. (12 words)
They write scathing content online about you, leave menacing voice messages or stalk you. (14 words)
A former officer who used police computers to stalk and harass a colleague has been jailed. (16 words)
The inch-perfect installation gave members of the public walking near to during the weekend the chance to see engineers at the top of the main 'stalk' waiting for the jib to be hoisted up on behalf of construction giant Sir Robert McAlpine. (43 words)
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya tells the story of a tiny girl found inside a stalk of bamboo by an older bamboo cutter and his wife, and the couple decide to raise this mysterious child as their own. (39 words)
The posterior pituitary (or neurohypophysis) is a lobe of the gland that is functionally connected to the hypothalamus by the median eminence via a small tube called the pituitary stalk (also called the infundibular stalk or the infundibulum). (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
The posterior pituitary (or neurohypophysis) is a lobe of the gland that is functionally connected to the hypothalamus by the median eminence via a small tube called the pituitary stalk (also called the infundibular stalk or the infundibulum).
A former officer who used police computers to stalk and harass a colleague has been jailed.
After the harvest, instead of keeping his fields bare, he plants cereal rye into corn stalk residue.
Having forgotten both it and its name until now, I identified it again and was reminded that it was the red-capped scaber stalk.
He feels very little pain, and can secretly stalk his victims despite his towering stature and bizarre hockey masked-face.
He looks for the moments many people miss: Skidding tire tracks in the road or the way a dried stalk pops up in the middle of a house with snow dusting the image.
If you want, you’ll be able to stalk all of them right back or create a match and do the first faltering step.
Irena grows jealous of this other woman and begins to stalk her.
It's been 20 years, and the clickers, bloaters, shamblers or whatever other fungal horrors stalk the planet are still utterly horrifying to the characters.
I was always chasing the little mushroom-looking pastry tarts, the pastry stalk was standing in some sort of custard which you swished around and ate.
Made up of the liquefied flesh of their victims, gibbering mouthers mutter and chatter as they stalk their prey.
Our hero decides to stalk, er, surprise her at work so he flies to London in the hopes of making a grand romantic gesture.
She also told The Daily that Curry had continued to physically stalk her on campus, even after he had been removed multiple times.
That even provided time for Kuro to stalk Kaya, Usopp, and Nami in that mansion as a cool horror-style villain, thanks to omitting the rest of his crew aside from Sham and Buchi.
The experts explained: “The plant then recognises that a whole stalk is gone and starts working on replacing it.
The inch-perfect installation gave members of the public walking near to during the weekend the chance to see engineers at the top of the main 'stalk' waiting for the jib to be hoisted up on behalf of construction giant Sir Robert McAlpine.
The man has been charged with two counts of stalk/intimidate intend fear physical harm (domestic), and one count of aggravated break and enter commit serious indictable offence.
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya tells the story of a tiny girl found inside a stalk of bamboo by an older bamboo cutter and his wife, and the couple decide to raise this mysterious child as their own.
They write scathing content online about you, leave menacing voice messages or stalk you.
Under the terms of the AVO, her daughter must not assault, threaten, stalk, harass, intimidate or recklessly destroy or damage any property belonging to Alberici.
Common combinations with stalk
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to stalk 25×
- the stalk 17×
- stalk and 12×
- stalk the 10×
- stalk of 10×
- stalk their 7×
- or stalk 5×
- stalk her 4×
- will stalk 4×
- stalk or 3×