How to Use stockroom in a Sentence

stockroom

noun
  • All were items from the stockroom bought for other shows.
    — Kansas City Star, 4 May 2026
  • Leon said the quake knocked frames off the walls and bottles off the shelves in the restaurant and the stockroom next door.
    — ABC News, 24 June 2026
  • Wayne Haight, who works in the stockroom, had his mask on, even during a short break outside.
    — Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Eliminating the stockroom frees up thousands of square feet that can be added to the sales floor.
    — Zlati Meyer, USA TODAY, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Plus tomatoes in more colors, sizes, and styles than shoes in a Nordstrom stockroom.
    — Beth Segal, cleveland, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Some employees were told to pull all items from the stockroom onto the sales floor to make the stores look fuller, the people said.
    — Suzanne Kapner, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2022
  • The man claims that Combs and his bodyguards made threats toward him before leaving the stockroom.
    — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Lowman said the staff and two customers went into the back stockroom and hid for two hours, Lowman said.
    — Miguel Torres, The Arizona Republic, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Her soon-to-open storefront, which was already in the works, shifted from floral shop to grocery stockroom.
    — Katie Strasberg Rousso, Southern Living, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Perhaps keep your stockroom full and have employees who hustle refill stock.
    — Elie Y. Katz, Forbes, 26 May 2021
  • Cole works in a nursing home (and is a caring presence there), but would never stoop to stealing meds from the stockroom.
    — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Jan. 2020
  • Each year, the cosmic chemical stockroom grows by anywhere from a handful to a couple of dozen new finds.
    — Olivia Harper Wilkins, The Conversation, 27 Apr. 2026
  • My other options have been stockroom jobs at fashion stores or temp agencies that are looking for people.
    — John Kell, Fortune, 17 Mar. 2020
  • If the produce looks old at the grocery store, ask an employee to bring you better options from the stockroom.
    — Jennifer Farley, charlotteobserver, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Shoppers reported that store employees in some cases told them to hide in stockrooms.
    — Fox News, 15 Dec. 2019
  • She was later assigned to work in a kitchen and stockroom in the Birkenau section of Auschwitz.
    — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2022
  • Also, it was supposed to help reduce or eliminate the time that goods are kept in a store’s stockroom before hitting the aisles.
    — Ziati Meyer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Their first job was bagging groceries at the front of the store and organizing the stockroom in the evenings after school and on weekends.
    — Morgan Smith, CNBC, 25 July 2024
  • The old stockroom, once full of appliances waiting for service, sits empty now, sealed to keep the building’s heating bill low.
    — John Carlisle, Detroit Free Press, 8 Apr. 2018
  • Saks is also moving fine jewelry from the ground floor to the basement, space that had previously served as a stockroom.
    — Suzanne Kapner, WSJ, 18 May 2018
  • Ratke said used photos others took of the stockroom and pull inspiration from the materials on hand.
    — Kansas City Star, 4 May 2026
  • The Cleveland man, 22, moved several items from the floor to a stockroom, then placed them into bags and walked out of the store with them.
    — cleveland, 23 Oct. 2019
  • The fifth-floor stockroom contains the more toxic organic chemicals and solvents.
    — Diana Lambert, sacbee.com, 28 May 2017
  • Impacts worked in the stockroom and occasionally on the shop floor during busy periods.
    — Diyora Shadijanova, refinery29.com, 25 May 2022
  • The stockroom, the grounds, the bathrooms, everything was immaculate.
    — Aaron Randle, kansascity, 4 Mar. 2018
  • And what could be more tangible than giving stockroom employees superhuman strength?
    — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 28 June 2017
  • Downstairs in a stockroom, Tracy Anderson was fatally shot as well.
    — Katie Dowd, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Apr. 2018
  • Juarez was a stockroom attendant and forklift operator who is remembered as a beloved father and grandfather.
    — R. Christian Smith, Chicago Tribune, 12 Feb. 2026
  • Items from Zara and Inditex’s seven other brands will be shipped out from the company’s existing online stockrooms around the world.
    — Jeannette Neumann, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2018
  • But not everyone knows how to access those services -- and even the people who do have not always been able to use them, as competing orders crowd delivery times and empty stockrooms.
    — Caitlin Hu, CNN, 24 Mar. 2020

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