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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91. This woman with a red headscarf is looking at them and chatting to the man behind the stall.
92. In reply, the bookies wonder whether managing a whelk stall might be a better-sized challenge for the Jockey Club's skills.
93. Button s rise to stardom will stall as he moves from Williams.
94. With his thick accent, Lygizos should get a stall in the Sharks locker room.
95. Yes, I saw them queuing for tomatoes, but the stall was still well-stocked the next day.
96. A stall with wheels was held to be a vehicle in this case.
97. Think about it, really, would you trust somebody who promotes their self in a bathroom stall?
98. I'm not ready to talk to him yet - go out there and see if you can stall him.
99. But when a four-day strike at the unit threatened to stall vehicle production(http://sentencedict.com/stall.html), Chrysler agreed to abandon those efforts.
100. Surely this would be the ideal place to locate these stall holders - still in the town centre but not causing obstructions.
101. I am also grateful for the unstinting help of those who staffed the stall and baked as well.
102. I was learning Hugh's trade, and helping my granny with her flower stall at the harbour.
103. If that goes against them, they could stall the process further by seeking a judicial review.
104. She was paying for it when her eye was caught by a stall covered with delicately made tablecloths and other handmade items.
105. In this case the instructor brings the aircraft to a stall and applies full rudder as if he is going to spin.
106. She still obsesses about June 28, the day her college career came to a sudden stall before it even got started.
107. This was solved by setting up the first stall run by the eldest most respected woman in the village.
108. First up, Treleaven then hit an imperious five-iron pin-high to set out his stall.
109. I can't have you following me in there, peering round from the next stall.
110. Most of the Guernseys are hitched to their stalls, but one is in a special stall.
111. Bric-a-brac was donated and sold on the stall which was set up in the factory canteen.
112. An undercover trading standards officer bought a pound of bananas for 34p from Mr Thoburn's stall last summer.
113. The trouble is, you can't really try the clothes on at a market stall.
114. Ken also played a man selling luminous leprechauns and a newspaper seller talking inconsequential nonsense to the proprietor of a coffee stall.
115. The results eased investors' concern that earnings growth could stall.
116. We got a hotel room that featured peeling paint, no windows, and a john in the shower stall.
117. Not for them chirpy whelk stall amateurism or cheerful under-achieving.
118. I have no residual obligation to come back to the same market stall next week.
119. Except that one had reservations about what was genuine on a Petticoat Lane stall.
120. At a street corner stall, a young man roasted savory chestnuts and served them up in a newspaper cone.