Collocations for "stall"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "stall" in context.
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stall
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- a [shop, merchant's, flea market, fair] stall
- opened up a stall [on the street, at the mall]
- owns his own stall
- a stall selling [food, sunglasses, handmade goods]
- a stall at the [art, craft] show
- a Saturday job at a market stall
- [set up, take down] the market stall
- the [cows, livestock] are kept in stalls
- has enough stalls to hold [100] [cows]
- the horse came [flying, racing] out the stall
- the bathroom had [four] stalls
- all of the stalls were full
- sexually explicit: could hear them having sex in the stall
- in the stall next to me
- the shower stalls (don't) have curtains
- used [his injury, the accident] as a stall
- the plane went into a stall
- got the plane out of the stall
- couldn't get the plane out of the stall
- UK, theater: [booked, had] seats in the stalls
- the [car, motorcycle, plane] stalled (out)
- my car stalled (at the lights)
- stalled my car (at the lights)
- stalling on [the project, his work]
- stall for more time
- try [to, and] stall him
- stalled at [work, school] by [my boss, a project]
- stalled by traffic
- stall the [talks, progress, proceedings, negotiations]
- the [talks] were stalled by [the unions, probes, disagreements]
'stall' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):