Meanings of short stack in English

I handed him a short stack of maybe ten applications.

I believe Martin was standing atop a short stack, below and to the rear.

Leif glanced at the boy beside him, who carried a short stack of bowls.

The pizzas rest, a short stack of them, in slots behind the Deliverator's head.

Black smoke belched from its short stack as it wheeled around to face us.

After rifling through a short stack of papers he removed a folder and passed it to her.

Most can get by with a text editor, a few browsers and a short stack of reference materials.

When she turned the corner I was walking toward her, a short stack of vinyl LPs in my hands.

Matthias met Jessa in the library as he had promised, and placed a short stack of books on his desk.

Feigning a casual attitude, I pulled a short stack of manuscript pages closer and moved them out of Billy's reach.

Zip and Joe took the other chairs and Mark sat on a short stack of crates filled with rock samples.

On the top of the desk, next to a short stack of file requests, was the pen he had lent Dawlish.

Dickens was perched on the edge of a small reading table and there was a short stack of manuscript pages next to him.

The half-mile test loop simply has a short stack of cylindrical magnets embedded in the pavement every 1.2 meters.

Chronicler picked up the short stack of finished pages and tapped them on the table, squaring their corners before resting the half-finished page on top.

Hit the Menu key-whicheither says "Menu" on it, or looks like a short stack of horizontal bars, to head to the Home screen.