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How to use the word socks in a Sentence?

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We collected some socks from people willing to donate socks, and we taught the dogs, by smelling the socks, which ones were the Covid socks and they picked it up very quickly, then we moved into the schools and started sniffing the kids at the ankles.

Carol Edwards

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The one thing we do know for sure is when you’re collecting a sample off of a human being, you want to go where the most scent is produced. That is the head, the pits, the groin and the feet. Given those options, I went with feet, we collected some socks from people willing to donate socks, and we taught the dogs, by smelling the socks, which ones were the Covid socks and they picked it up very quickly.

Carol Edwards

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Pack enough socks and underwear to last your entire trip so that you only have to launder larger items such as pants, shirts and shorts during your travels.

Lugos Travel Shane Mahoney

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I have a friend who is an MIT professor and his favorite activity is matching socks, another friend likes to iron. Ideas can incubate and then we come back to the hard work and we see it with fresh eyes.

Gloria Mark

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Pack socks, and even underwear, inside your tennis shoes to use otherwise wasted space.

Elainnie Singleterry

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Turning Ahmaud Arbery into a victim after the choices that he made does not reflect the reality of what brought Ahmaud Arbery to Satilla Shores in his khaki shorts with no socks to cover his long, dirty toenails.

Laura Hogue

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I am here to work with people, work with kids, treat them, make them feel better in the fullest sense of the word, if that means I have to wear mismatched sparkly socks and have a large badge with my face up a little too close and speak really loudly in wacky tones, then sure, I'll do it.

Sarah Ash Combs

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When I went out there, it was like a scene from The Walking Dead, all the resources had stopped. People stopped coming to feed. People were starving. Some people had socks tied around their face, around their nose.

Shirley Raines

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When Idahoans hear someone who conspired with tree spikers is the administration’s pick to lead the largest land management agency in America, they are rightfully appalled. Conspiring with tree spikers is not a mistake, a mistake is opening the sock drawer in the morning and pulling out two socks that don’t match. When you knowingly, willfully, intentionally, with malice and forethought, attempt to take someone else’s life – that’s not a mistake.

Jim Risch

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Whenever I wear yellow socks now, I wear them proudly, because I know I ’m not just representing me, I ’m representing a massive group of people who’ve experienced loneliness.

Claire Muhlawako Madzura

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We had an event that we went to that we dressed alike -- our socks matched, our sneakers matched, our sunglasses matched our shorts were black -- she made us tank tops that said that she was the big sister and I was Cassandra Madison, we kind of just went with it like as a joke. It was not serious at all.

Julia Tinetti

Found on CNN
3 years ago

She sort of suggested to you that if only we had told the staff to pull their socks up, the problem would have gone away, she even at one point in the report suggested that maybe it was a mistake to do the programmes of change, which I just fundamentally disagree with.

Andrew Bailey

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

I remember I was at the Hollywood Bowl on a really bad date, i mean, the girl is basically ignoring me. But here we were at this show watching Don Rickles. Then Frank Sinatra comes out with Don Rickles Jack Daniel’s and goes ‘ Is Frankie Stallone out there ? ’ I thought I was gon na have a heart attack. I just kind of stood up. Then he goes, ‘ I heard that new album you did with Billy May. Knocked my socks off, kid. ’ I just thought, ‘ Oh. My. God. ’ And now the girl is all over me like a cheap suit ! I was just so smitten. It’s really cool to be recognized by one of the greatest singers of the 20th century.

Frank Stallone

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Many people haven't been able to accumulate much of anything and want to leave something behind beyond a bunch of socks and underwear.

Byron Udell

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

My husband grew up knowing you should be fully dressed for meals, socks and shoes on, we set the table for breakfast, lunchand dinner. And when I say set the table, I meanset the table. We have placemats, all the cutlery out, the glasses, and we serve everyone as our guests.

Timothy Charles Montagu

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

He took me into his office and it was there where, for the first time, he asked me to take off my shoes and my socks and kissed my feet. He said it was something normal and that he was giving a scholarship at this academy and that I could thank him this way, that it wasn't something bad, that he was not going to tell anybody and that this was normal.

Luis Armando Campos

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It just knocks the socks off any other expense.

Debra Newman

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

When you're pregnant, like I am, and you wan na put your socks on, it's easy. First, the left foot, okay a little discomfort but not really a problem... then the right foot.

Amy Schumer

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Seeing that — just how much I could imagine being in that situation and what having a nice clean pair of socks at that moment would do — I'll never shake that moment.

David HeathHeath

Found on CNN
5 years ago

David HeathHeath kind of take David HeathHeath socks for granted. They're an afterthought in the design and apparel world, we just got obsessed with this idea that we could help solve a problem through starting a business.

Randy Goldberg

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We took the socks that had captured the scent of the children overnight and flew them to the UK, where the dogs were trained to smell and differentiate samples that were infected or not.

Steve Lindsay

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I've seen people coming in using newspaper, tissues or socks, one woman was taking paper out of a public library and using that.

Sarah Tilotta for CNN ''

Found on CNN
5 years ago

He doesn't like white socks.

Jason Maloni

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I can fit in the seat of any car I like and on buses, trains and planes ; I do n’t have to worry about breaking benches or garden furniture anymore, i can buy clothes on the high street and put my own socks on easily ; I can walk miles and run up and down the stairs … the list is endless.

Dave Lancaster

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

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