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Example sentences for "garments"

Lexicographically close words:
garlick; garlicky; garment; garmented; garmentes; garner; garnered; garnering; garners; garnet
  1. O sweet and cloudy gleam of the garments golden!

  2. He lays out his evening clothes, brushes and presses the garments worn in the morning, and draws his bath.

  3. It developed that they had made the garments themselves, copying them from the original models, sometimes sitting up all night to finish the garment.

  4. She wore the garments under protest, and with some resentment.

  5. But man should no longer disguise the long lines, the strong forms, in those lengths of piping or tubing that are of all garments the most stupid.

  6. His garments were of the meanest kind, his beard neglected, his person filthy, his diet bordering on starvation.

  7. His costume was an odd one, but it was made of the best of materials, now somewhat worn, but fit still to hold their own in comparison with far newer garments of cheaper quality.

  8. The exchanges were soon made and the waterproof garments donned, but not before everybody had got pretty wet, for the rain was coming down in torrents now, such as are never seen except in tropical or subtropical regions.

  9. Tom was the worst sufferer in that respect, as the garments he wore had been badly torn in his rescue from the fire, but he cheerfully announced: “I can manage very well.

  10. The garments I now have on were made for me in London three years or so ago, and I have worn no others since.

  11. Fur-bearing animals are mammals whose skins are used in the manufacture of fur garments and other fur wearing apparel.

  12. And therewith is concluded the work of the fur dyer proper, and the skins are ready to return to the furrier, in whose hands they undergo the metamorphosis into the fur garments to be worn chiefly by the feminine portion of humanity.

  13. Thy foot above me on the height, I might not touch thy garments white.

  14. Their garments are all of dark and sombre hues.

  15. These garments are made of cotton obtained from the uncultivated tree Bombax, and their color is white, blue, or red.

  16. Lima, and consisting of two garments called the Saya and the Manto.

  17. For this expedition we put on for the first time our armor of quilted cotton cloth; and the look of these garments certainly did justify Young's comments upon them.

  18. If she had expected to find the youthful Pierre dressed in other garments than white waist, knickers and green cap, she did not say so, either by word, look or gesture.

  19. And then, with a burst of joyous song, their gay garments gleaming like a bed of flowers, their faces shining, these happy villagers came trooping back.

  20. Her body wasted so that all the garments she wore were loose upon her.

  21. In an instant she had rent half Pennyloaf's garments off her back, and was tearing her face till the blood streamed.

  22. He was, as usual, immaculately neat, and Weston noticed the contrast between him and Stirling, whose garments had apparently grown smaller with the wetting.

  23. Weston glanced at the protruding garments with which she seemed to be busy.

  24. One was attired elaborately in light garments and a big hat that appeared very much out of place in that aisle of tremendous forest, but there was a difference between her and her companion.

  25. The next morning he laid his city clothes carefully aside, and borrowed from his comrades garments more adapted to the bush.

  26. He was full-fleshed and red of face, and the artistically cut garments striped in soft colors conveyed a suggestion of ease and leisure which seemed very much out of place on him.

  27. None of them seemed to know, though it became evident that his city garments were, at least, not in the adit.

  28. It usually happens, however, that when one sets about it his companions do the same, and there is sometimes trouble as to who has the prior claim on the big kerosene can in which the garments are generally boiled.

  29. Better than ever before I realized the idiocy of sending men to fight in garments that make vivid targets of them.

  30. And so all night long women in the hospitals had sat up cutting out and basting together the garments of glory for their menfolk.

  31. Some of them were feverish; all of them sorely needed clean garments for their bodies and fresh dressings for their hurts and proper food for their stomachs.

  32. I have been hunting Sunday clothes in the barrels sent us by kind friends,--the garments the children bring with them must be saved for hard, every-day wear.

  33. No longer shall they see me in garments of heaviness.

  34. On investigating, Jean found her out on the beach standing bareheaded while the wind wound her garments about her, loosening the strands of her braided hair and pelting her with rain and flying spray.

  35. There was no oakum for the purpose, so she tore up some garments that neither she nor Jean could spare.

  36. He advanced haltingly as if spent from some long struggle, his bare, black head sunk on his chest, his damp garments clinging to him.

  37. He surveyed her with a look that slowly, appraisingly, stripped her body of its garments and swept her from her bare feet to her face and back again.

  38. Not that Gwen troubled much about dress at this period of her existence; indeed she was apt to throw on her garments in a haphazard fashion that greatly excited Beatrice's wrath, and would raise a remonstrance even from Winnie.

  39. During your absence Mr. Nisbet obtains easy admission to the house, goes straight to the attic cupboard, and bears away with him the garments which, by devious circumstantial evidence, might be a danger to him.

  40. Then I went to the attic cupboard, with the intention of bringing down the women's garments I had discovered there.

  41. My son falls, and his sire Darius comes To aid and comfort him, whom when he sees, Xerxes his garments rends in sign of woe.

  42. Their garments are not the only things which these people embellish in brilliant colours and with different patterns.

  43. The style of dress in the islands is more commonplace, but the great quantity of garments worn one over the other remind one of the childish simplicity of the outlines of our own peasant women.

  44. All the garments worn by the women are worked by their own hands and busy fingers, during the long winter evenings.

  45. The natives make all their garments out of a broad piece of stuff manufactured in the country, the devices and colours of which manifest extraordinary variety and astonishing taste.

  46. The garments of the newly married pair were of red silk brocaded with gold embroidery, and their heads, necks, arms and hands were covered with jewellery.

  47. She is dressed in garments embroidered with gold and silver.

  48. These aborigines do not make use of any kind of garments as a protection against the frequent rains of their climate, but they shield their heads from the sun with a broad arum leaf.

  49. Their garments are identical with those of the Tahitians, and made from stuffs of the same materials.

  50. Everyone craned his or her neck, and the figures of the six contestants who wore the khaki garments of the Boy Scouts proved to be the hub of all glances.

  51. Every boy in town would know Ty as far away as they could see him; for, when not going to school, winter and summer he clung to an old red sweater that he seemed to love above all the garments he possessed.

  52. The housemaid next door hangs out the Monday's garments to dry, and there is a pleasant flapping of legs and arms as if impatient for partners in a dance.

  53. Merlin lies in Wales with his dusty garments pulled about him, and his magic sleeps.

  54. Below him stood his brother idolators, their spotless garments outspread ready to catch the falling sprigs of the mistletoe as they dropped beneath the stroke of the golden pruning-knife.

  55. Silk garments were not uncommon amongst the nobles: as early as the time of Ethelbert, king of Kent, mention is made of a silk dress.

  56. Added to this, they cast aside their upper garments when they fought, as the brave Highlanders were wont to do a century or two ago, and on their naked bodies were punctured all kinds of monsters, such as no human eye had ever beheld.


  57. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "garments" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    apparel; array; attire; clothes; costume; drapery; dress; dressing; duds; ensemble; fashion; fatigues; feathers; fig; garb; garment; garments; gear; guise; habit; investiture; investment; linen; rag; raiment; robe; style; threads; togs; toilette; trim; vestment; wear