• Everywhere you looked, one of them seemed to be staring at nothing, drinking it in, transfixed: a dead stalk of dock weed or the blank corner of a stone wall or an icicle dribbled from the lip of a gutter.

    NEWYORKER: She��s the One

  • ASEAN's effectiveness, as well as its membership, will be one stalk short of a bundle.

    ECONOMIST: Don��t shout, I��m from ASEAN

  • Across the fields and beyond a humming slash of motorway, the enormous bamboo stalk of Taipei 101, the second-tallest building in the world, stood like a punctuation mark.

    BBC: Here be dragons

  • 'I look like I'm a hundred, ' he says with a grin, picking handfuls of wild basil from the ground and handing me a stalk.

    BBC: The three colours of Ibiza

  • He stoops to loosen a heavy bunch of small, blackish Monastrell grapes from the stalk and offers me one: a syrup-sweet burst on the tongue.

    BBC: The three colours of Ibiza

  • For me equilibrium represents a risk-free speculation where you can sit and stalk a company without taking an exposure waiting for the beginning of a large move in either direction.

    FORBES: No-Brainer Trading Idea For Netflix

  • It has a bright red stalk, a scrawny yellow leaf and is sweeter than the greener outdoor variety of which many Britons have bitter school-dinner memories.

    ECONOMIST: Rhubarb, newbarb

  • So Reidenberg challenged his information privacy law class to cyber-stalk Scalia as a lesson in the transparency of personal information online.

    FORBES: Confessions of an Online Stalker

  • Pre-order her book, Can't Think Straight: A Memoir of Mixed-Up Love, or cyber-stalk her at kiriblakeley.com or on Facebook.

    FORBES

  • Using the stalk of the corn plant instead of the kernels could open up a limitless, renewable fuel supply.

    FORBES: Revving Up Nature's Engines

  • Rather, it is cut high on the stalk and the remains of the plant are left to rot into a mat of organic material.

    ECONOMIST: Brazilian agriculture

  • At Start Point the ghost of Henry Muge, a pirate executed on the beach below in 1581, is said to stalk the lighthouse.

    FORBES: Bed & Beacon

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