How to Use the stacks in a Sentence
the stacks
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Kosher salt and black pepper: Enhances the flavor of the stacks.
—Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 30 Oct. 2023
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Wearing his blue cap and a trench coat, Mr. Wrenn scoured the stacks of vintage art books.
—Alex Vadukul, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
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As Cummings’ dedication to the work grew, so did the stacks of items stored in her home.
—Kate Morrissey, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2023
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Join hands with the Arizona schools and head south, head east, where the prospects of winning are bright, bright enough, and the stacks of cash are deep, deep enough.
—Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Aug. 2023
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Once the stacks are rolled up into logs, the pinwheels are cut and placed in a dish lined with San Marzano tomato sauce.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 11 Dec. 2023
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Back then, the stacks of paper records could tower 18 inches tall.
—Katie Palmer and Casey Ross, STAT, 13 Mar. 2024
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If the library’s got bugs, and death beetles infested it in the 1970s, well, the stacks can turn into freezers.
—Brian T. Allen, National Review, 8 Feb. 2024
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On her feet are ballet flats perfect for perusing the stacks.
—Sara Lang, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Oct. 2023
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As Brown surveyed the warehouse in Missouri, a crew steered forklifts and skid lifts among the stacks of plain wooden boxes.
—Nick Penzenstadler, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
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There were some sprinklers on the first and second floors, but none in the stacks, and no firewalls between records storage areas.
—Allen G. Breed and Randy Herschaft, Anchorage Daily News, 11 July 2023
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Inside, workers and equipment shared close quarters amid the stacks of pallets.
—Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2023
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That may represent the future, but the past is just a short walk across campus in the stacks of the anthropology library.
—Tim Arango, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2023
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Chief among the stacks is 8,500 pounds of fentanyl and the chemical precursors used to make the deadly drug, all of which will soon be destroyed by being burned.
—Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2023
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It was buried in a medical journal in the stacks of a university library.
—Penelope Green, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
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Someone’s grown-up walked through the stacks (shorter ones than in the main room), balancing an armful of children’s books while the kids with her did their own browsing.
—Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 16 Mar. 2023
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The cashier recounted the money and the woman then picked up the stacks and put them together -- while removing $2,000 off the bottom before handing it back to the cashier.
—Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 28 July 2023
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There were photos stashed everywhere, many tucked into the stacks of Yellow Pages phone books in Wally’s bedroom closet, warped and stained from water damage.
—Erik Himmelsbach-Weinstein, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2024
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The National Park Service is asking visitors to leave the stacks of rocks that are found along hiking routes alone, as messing with them can have detrimental effects for other hikers.
—Kate Perez, USA TODAY, 13 July 2023
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But the images that stayed with me most are the array of people sharing the Central Library — addicts and mentally ill and unhoused commingled with academics, children, docents, book clubbers and others who spent hours wandering the stacks.
—Donna Wares, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2023
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There’s no better way to spend an afternoon than among the stacks, and details like soaring ceilings, historical architecture, and soft light streaming through floor-to-ceiling windows can create a bibliophile’s dream.
—Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 28 Mar. 2023
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Researchers come to access its collection, asking archivists to retrieve from the stacks boxes of material that range from obscure documents to storied records in the country’s history.
—Sean Catangui, New York Times, 14 July 2023
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