How to Use stockpile in a Sentence

stockpile

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• There’s the stockpile it’s amassed of Bitcoin and Ethereum.
  — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 24 Feb. 2024
• And is their nuclear stockpile, the largest in the world, secure?
  — CBS News, 25 June 2023
• The first step is to replenish the U.S. weapons stockpile in Israel.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 11 Oct. 2023
• The monthslong sales brought the stockpile to its lowest level since the 1980s.
  — Matthew Daly, Chron, 12 Jan. 2023
• The tests are all coming from the government stockpile.
  — Cheyenne Haslett, ABC News, 29 Nov. 2023
• The need to replenish stockpiles could yet reignite imports, which dropped to a three-month low in July.
  — Time, 23 Aug. 2023
• But his hopes of passing his stockpile down to the next generation have been dashed.
  — Robert Weisman, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Nov. 2022
• And Russia appears to have more weapons in its stockpile, due in part to the growing supply of exploding drones from Iran.
  — Arkansas Online, 30 Dec. 2022
• According to Ukrainian intelligence, Russia had a stockpile of about 50 Kinzhals at the start of the war, and has used about a dozen of them.
  — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 5 May 2023
• LAWs are not the dashing and glamorous surface combatants from the Navy’s stockpile of great sea stories.
  — Craig Hooper, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023
• Iran has over 3,000 ballistic missiles in its stockpiles, the largest arsenal in the Middle East.
  — Paul Iddon, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2024
• For now, vaccines will continue to be free because the government has a stockpile of them.
  — Arkansas Online, 11 May 2023
• However, events of the last couple of years have convinced many people of the need to have a good stockpile of necessities on hand, just in case.
  — Jim Cobb, Field & Stream, 2 Aug. 2023
• But Dallas clearly chose not to take that risk, instead agreeing to the sign-and-trade that bolstered the Celtics’ growing stockpile of second-round picks.
  — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2023
• As for treatments, insured patients will likely have to start paying out-of-pocket to cover at least part of the cost once stockpiles run dry.
  — USA TODAY, 11 May 2023
• The vast majority of those munitions have come from Army stockpiles due to the nature of the conventional land war in Ukraine.
  — CBS News, 12 Mar. 2024
• Also in the news: With the Russia-Ukraine war's front line largely static amid icy weather, both sides seek to replenish their weapons stockpiles.
  — USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2024
• This is not sort of a stockpile as other media outlets had suggested.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2023
• The increase in product stockpiles offset any upside from a bigger-than-expected draw in crude stocks.
  — WSJ, 4 Jan. 2024
• The population is sharply split along pro- and anti-Hezbollah lines, owing largely to the group’s weapons stockpile, among other things.
  — Rania Abouzeid, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2023
• If the first couple of weeks are any indication, YouTube’s deep cash coffers and stockpile of goodwill are giving it a leg up with creators.
  — Alexandra Sternlicht, Fortune, 16 Feb. 2023
• That’s where your stockpile of non-perishable food and a little imagination comes in.
  — Carlos Frías, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• Large stockpiles of what appear to be construction supplies are visible on the side of the road, as are three armored vehicles.
  — Vasco Cotovio, CNN, 9 Feb. 2024
• Alright, and then what happens after the government stockpile of the vaccine expires?
  — CBS News, 19 Feb. 2023
• Trade data reveals China could be sitting on a massive stockpile of oil.
  — Bret Baier, Fox News, 24 Nov. 2023
• The Treasury Department estimates that release of oil from the emergency stockpile lowered prices at the pump by up to 40 cents per gallon.
  — CBS News, 27 Jan. 2023
• As recently as March, Granholm had sounded pessimistic notes about beginning to refill the stockpile this year.
  — Breanne Deppisch, Washington Examiner, 11 May 2023
• The United States has healthy stockpiles of explosive fill, officials said.
  — Karen Deyoung, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2023
• While most of us store our plastic wrap in a drawer next to the aluminum foil, parchment paper, and stockpile of reusable silicone bags.
  — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 14 Mar. 2024
• These weapons will come from existing U.S. stockpiles, which means they can be quickly delivered to the battlefield.
  — Matt Seyler, ABC News, 4 Apr. 2023

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stockpile

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• The government stockpiled vaccines to prepare for a flu epidemic.
• Avoid the urge to panic buy and don’t stockpile Plan B.
  — Hannah Smothers, SELF, 8 July 2022
• The key is not to stockpile too much at full cost and buy only when the price is right.
  — Cristina Lourosa-Ricardo, WSJ, 21 May 2022
• The Rangers and Rays stockpiled ammo for the postseason.
  — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2023
• Russia adds to weapons stockpile with lethal drones from Iran.
  — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2022
• The ones Americans stockpiled over the last year and a half are expiring.
  — Fenit Nirappil, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Aug. 2023
• Studios have been rushing to stockpile scripts in case things go awry.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 14 Apr. 2023
• But fear not: the facility is stockpiled with a range of blasters from big to small to meet all your Nerf-ing needs.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2023
• Efforts to stockpile weapons and hold firearms trainings.
  — Time, 9 Dec. 2022
• Many Serbs stockpiled weapons left over from the wars that followed the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, conflicts marked by a string of atrocities.
  — Jenny Gross, New York Times, 4 May 2023
• These are the same companies that are putting pressure on writers to try to stockpile scripts.
  — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Mar. 2023
• The six-day shutdown pushed some consumers to stockpile gas, leaving many pumps dry.
  — David Uberti, WSJ, 29 June 2022
• Also, a move down to stockpile picks is almost never a bad idea.
  — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Apr. 2022
• Like the Chiefs, the Bengals would be wise to constantly stockpile talent on the offensive line.
  — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 May 2022
• His team has been studying ways to stockpile tests for faster production ramp-up in the event of a new epidemic.
  — Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2022
• But the region has been stockpiling ahead of the winter heating season.
  — Michelle Toh, CNN, 29 Aug. 2023
• Meanwhile, food and water are in short supply in Gaza, but the bureau has stockpiled supplies for the time being.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 11 Oct. 2023
• So there is an urgent need to stockpile relevant weapons now.
  — Michael Poznansky, Foreign Affairs, 5 Jan. 2024
• Others wondered whether the group was stockpiling weapons.
  — Michael Williams, Dallas News, 20 July 2023
• Located near the west end of Broadway Street, the huge storage bins were once used to stockpile grain for nearby egg and poultry farms.
  — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 27 June 2023
• Related: How was Ronald Andruchuk able to stockpile more than 200 guns?
  — Amanda Milkovits, BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2022
• Prices for gas and coal hit a record as importers rushed to stockpile fuel for winter, when consumption peaks.
  — Stephen Stapczynski, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Jan. 2023
• There was a mad rush to stockpile their products, for posterity’s sake.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2022
• At least two European countries have moved to stockpile vaccines in a possible effort to get ahead of the spread.
  — Annabelle Timsit and Seung Min Kim, Anchorage Daily News, 22 May 2022
• In his State of the Union address, Biden called on Congress to provide new funding for the administration to stockpile more tests, masks and pills.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 3 Mar. 2022
• Streamers like Netflix, Max, and Prime Video obviously aren’t in the network business at all, and (at least for now) still have shows stockpiled for the fall.
  — Vulture, 21 Sep. 2023
• The fact that it's corded does limit its range, but that won't impact your work much if your goal is to find a chainsaw to cut logs near your home or shop to stockpile firewood.
  — Brittany Vanderbill, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 July 2023
• Why Trust Us? Survival is more than just stockpiling food and buying rations.
  — Kevin Cortez, Popular Mechanics, 5 Apr. 2023
• Some teams are trying to make a push for the postseason and others are attempting to stockpile draft picks in an effort to rebuild.
  — Tyler Dragon, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2022
• O’Neill’s goal is to grow the company and stockpile enough lumber to produce flooring in addition to paneling.
  — Jill Draper, Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024