Stockpile

//ˈstɒkpaɪl//

"Stockpile" in a Sentence (15 examples)

You should stockpile necessary supplies in case of a big earthquake.

Did you stockpile food and water?

We need to stockpile supplies.

“We cannot take baths, the toilet doesn’t work and our food stockpile is running low,” the 23-year-old school worker said.

Tom says that it is wise to stockpile some food in case of emergency.

When he found out that at few cases of coronavirus had broken out in Washington, D.C., Sell decided to stockpile on food and cleaning supplies.

In 2005, the Bush administration created the National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza, which called for the federal government to maintain and distribute a national stockpile of medical supplies in the event of an outbreak.

Parts of the world ravaged by outbreaks of Ebola can now heave a small sigh of relief thanks to the stockpile of vaccine, the International Coordinating Group (ICG) announced Monday.

There are the "preppers," so called because they stockpile water, food and other essentials in preparation for civil unrest.

There are many different styles of Solitaire, but a game typically starts with cards in the stockpile and a certain pattern laid out on the tableau (French for "table", as in a set of rows and columns). The tableau is where most of the action happens, as you move cards around to free the aces, or sometimes full columns, so that they can move to the foundation, which is basically the goal.

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Under the rice subsidy program, Yingluck [Shinawatra]'s administration paid farmers up to 50 percent more than market prices for their rice. The policy was popular with farmers but left Thailand with huge rice stockpiles and caused $8 billion in losses.

He stockpiled weapons and took pot shots in the air / He feasted on their lovely bodies like a lunatic

Shops' shelves were emptied on Friday as people began stockpiling food, with some unable to leave their homes due to the thigh-high snow.

He [Jeff Bezos] once suggested that, by paying college students on every Manhattan block to stockpile products in their apartments and to shuttle them up and down on bicycles, Amazon could edge towards near-instant delivery.

The RNC entered June with about $72.4 million in cash reserves, nearly five times the $15 million stockpiled by the DNC, as the two parties gear up for gubernatorial races this fall and next year’s costly midterm elections for Congress.

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