1202 examples of stalled in sentences

Wagons, horses, and provisions which were promised us are not forthcoming, and without them we are stalled here beyond hope of advance.

Here the army was well-nigh stalled.

By some means or other the troupe got separated and one of the brothers got stalled on Pig's Eye bar.

Ill luck ambushed them in the streets of a sizable town, its name unknown to Lanyard, where another car, driven inexpertly, rolled out of a side street and stalled in their path.

And what's in Prayer, but this two-fold force, To be fore-stalled ere

They experienced the truth of those words: "Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith," Prov. 15:17.

Entering the town, we proceeded, winding our way among pack trains and stalled motor trucks, to the town square.

Instead, there were low houses, many of mud and sunburnt brick, some so poor, doubtless, that the cattle were stalled, if not in the same room with the people of the house, yet so near that they could be heard through the partition, stamping, and crunching their food.

I had to go through with the former once in a while, but on the latter, Ihow do you Americans say itjust stalled along.

Good healthy man and woman that would breed fast, they would keep stalled up.

To Mathilde it seemed extraordinary the way older people sometimes stalled and shifted about perfectly obvious issues; but, wishing to be patient, she explained: "Don't you see it makes some difference in our situation?"

Why these, if I but need, like stalled ox To chew the grass cut for me? Wal. Why?

And who would reek and wallow o' nights in the same straw, like a stalled cow, when he may have his choice of all the clean holly bushes in the forest?

Ahmed came in for a volley of mockery for having to be shown the way to start his engine; but from the sour way he looked at me I was nearly sure he had stalled deliberately.

But woe to the hapless team that stalled in the treacherous quicksands.

"Old Joe left Ellicott City on a freight train, going west, which he hopped when it was stalled on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad a short distance from the railroad station at Ellicott City.

It kept up with an ever-increasing violence, until it seemed that even the stalled car would be compelled to yield to its force.

"We're stalled absolutely and no mistake.

"We tried to make the last boat by auto, but we got stalled and missed it.

He told us that almost all the cavalry had been dismounted to do infantry work in the trenches, but their horses were stalled in the rear.

She stalled as sad, as sweet a smile as ever was seen on woman's lips.

Teams were stalled, sometimes three and four span of animals were used to get one load to the top, and we were a good deal delayed.

I was so busy trying to keep from upsetting when I drove around stalled outfits and abandoned wagons, and so occupied in finding places where I might stop and breathe my team, that I paid little attention to my queer-acting passenger; but once when we were standing I noticed that she was covered up again, and seemed to be crying.

We got stalled at the very foot of it.

"Where," he inquires "are the great chines of stalled beef, the great, black jacks of double beer, the long hall-tables fully furnished with good victuals?"

1202 examples of  stalled  in sentences