Synonym: block, booth, cell, compartment, dawdle, delay, dillydally, hinder, procrastinate. Similar words: stale, install, crystal, coastal, stalwart, nostalgia, stalactite, installation. Meaning: [stɔːl] 
n. 1. a compartment in a stable where a single animal is confined and fed 2. small area set off by walls for special use 3. a booth where articles are displayed for sale 4. a malfunction in the flight of an aircraft in which there is a sudden loss of lift that results in a downward plunge 5. seating in the forward part of the main level of a theater 6. small individual study area in a library 7. a tactic used to mislead or delay. v. 1. postpone doing what one should be doing 2. come to a stop 3. deliberately delay an event or action 4. put into, or keep in, a stall 5. experience a stall in flight, of airplanes 6. cause an airplane to go into a stall 7. cause an engine to stop.
n. 1. a compartment in a stable where a single animal is confined and fed 2. small area set off by walls for special use 3. a booth where articles are displayed for sale 4. a malfunction in the flight of an aircraft in which there is a sudden loss of lift that results in a downward plunge 5. seating in the forward part of the main level of a theater 6. small individual study area in a library 7. a tactic used to mislead or delay. v. 1. postpone doing what one should be doing 2. come to a stop 3. deliberately delay an event or action 4. put into, or keep in, a stall 5. experience a stall in flight, of airplanes 6. cause an airplane to go into a stall 7. cause an engine to stop. 
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31. There was one bathroom with a shower stall in the corner.
32. The car is inclined to stall when it's cold outside.
33. The opening of a market stall is governed by municipal fiat.
34. See if you can stall her while I finish searching her office.
35. The owner of the stall, a large, thuggish man, grabbed Dai by the collar.
36. On the way to London,we had to stall for our car to fuel up.
37. If you try to start off in top gear you'll stall.
38. This hand-craft stage was characterized by the stall system.
39. She moved deeper into the stall.
40. Meaningless mumbo-jumbo designed to stall and delay.
41. Today it is a growing possibility that international cooperation will stall.
42. More ominously,(www.Sentencedict.com) the effort to halt the nuclear spread could also stall.
43. But the repetitions of the screen tests cause the story to stall.
44. Your controls can slip off, or you could stall the plane.
45. Even La Scala, where an opening-night stall seat goes for ￡500, rarely comes close to breaking even.
46. On leaving the stall they plunged into the hall which was bedlam, and far fuller than it had been that morning.
47. In 1887 Lyons ran a stall at the Liverpool exhibition, selling for a shilling a combined microscope-binocular-compass which he had invented.
48. Sorrel was on duty at her stall on the corner of the flea market, so that was my first port of call.
49. On a fruit stall she spied some big bunches of asparagus.
50. Optics have fascinated Dall since he bought a spyglass telescope from a market stall in his mid-teens.
51. Oswald and his wife Jenny have been selling wet fish from their stall for 45 years.
52. Till about 5 years ago I used to run a tea stall.
53. You set out your stall in an appropriate area full of like-minded folk.
54. Voter frustration with spending and taxes may well stall the New Progressivism before it can even start to overcome that perception.
55. Helpers are needed to run the book stall and man the bar.
56. Note how this time the glider has a very pronounced inner wing-drop at the stall and tries to spin.
57. But the stall keeper refused to change it and was very nasty to her.
58. They discovered that the pair were also trading at a stall in Abingdon and by mail order.
59. She ran her eye over the rolls of brightly-coloured cloth displayed on the stall.
60. One day he stole a sheep from a stall in the market.