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.
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61. Then, hobbling along on his chubby legs, his belly wagging with every step, he leads Magic to his stall.
62. Any other day, I would visit the pie stall inside the park gate.
63. Dad's coming! Stall him for a minute while I hide this.
64. Or you can buy some flowers from a shop or market stall.
65. Samuel's large stall was in the rue de Sanghines, the street of the moneylenders.
66. Daschle has vowed to stall the funding issue by filibuster if Republicans attempt to push through a plan Democrats oppose.
67. He may have the measure of the John Gosden-trained Anshan, running from stall 15.
68. I had to abandon the stall, and went into hiding until I could arrange to leave the country secretly.
69. Right in the centre of Church Street was a stall selling green groceries.
70. Never mind,(www.Sentencedict.com) he'd buy her a nice bunch of flowers from that stall outside the infirmary on his way home.
71. A friend and I take a stall at an indoor market once a week.
72. As she made her way from stall to stall, Loretta remembered her promise to ring Bridget.
73. Angie was running the hamburger stall - I don't think she has ever cooked so many hamburgers in her life.
74. He went into the stall and leaned against the side of it, while his cigarette burned away rapidly like a fuse.
75. And studies show that intellectual and emotional growth does seem to stall after we reach physical maturity.
76. They were selling fake Rolex watches on the market stall.
77. He asked for the shampoo in the shower stall and she handed it to him.
78. These, he had told her, were from Uncle Frank's stall at Brixton.
79. Goosedown Owen had trotted back to the stable and was eyeing the whole scene from the comfort of her stall.
80. Helen was holding on to the stall gate with both hands and staring at him.
81. Justin used to mind the stall while his father was in the cafe[sentencedict.com], drinking.
82. Having, as she thought, placed them, she turned her attention to her own stall.
83. The audience applauds enthusiastically and then rushes to get free samples at a stall beside the van.
84. Somerville College souvenirs were on sale on the stall at this meeting.
85. Buster Edwards now runs a Flower stall outside Waterloo Station.
86. Everyone, from stall holders to waiters, was eager to provide recipes and tips.
87. Belle devised the trick of waiting by a food stall at a halt until the train was just pulling out again.
88. MI5 had never asked for permission to have a stall.
89. It was a record year, too, for the record stall.
90. He worked the snaffle between the p'tar's huge yellow teeth, then hauled to bring the animal out of the stall.