Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: stalk
IPA transcription: [st'ɔk]
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: stalk
    Meaning: walk stiffly
  • Synonyms: haunt, stalk
    Meaning: follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to; "her ex-boyfriend stalked her"; "the ghost of her mother haunted her"
Usage examples
  • Miss Corny's answer was to stalk from the room.
  • The flower-stalks are a foot long, and many have four flowers on a stalk.
  • A Grand Duke pots a vulture just as seriously as we should stalk a bustard.
  • With but short time spent in consideration, so Zeb concluded; and commenced making preparations for a stalk after Cassius Calhoun.
  • As the stalk snapped in his fingers, he started back in terror, for he heard an angry roar, and the next minute a dreadful Beast sprang upon him.
  • But of all the picture's admirers who stood before it, I believe I was the only one who longed for Boadicea to stalk from her frame, bringing me corned-beef hash with poached egg.
  • But of all the picture's admirers who stood before it, I believe I was the only one who longed for Boadicea to stalk from her frame, bringing me corned-beef hash with poached egg.
  • For a moment the flower stands out perfect, large and round at the end of its slender, black stalk, and then the illusion is shattered: from a toadstool the poppy has turned into a moon!
  • Every green was young, every pore was open, and every stalk was swollen with racing currents of juice. God was palpably present in the country, and the devil had gone with the world to town.
  • During the latter part of the song-talk, they had formed themselves into a funeral procession, two of them bearing poor Primrose, whose death Pocket had hastened by biting her stalk, upon one of her own great leaves.