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Example sentences for "millinery"

Lexicographically close words:
millimeters; millimetre; millimetres; milliner; milliners; milling; million; millionaire; millionaires; millionairess
  1. I'd rather do millinery than housekeeping.

  2. The head of a big millinery department gets a couple of thousand a year!

  3. The millinery department, for instance, which Madame had once treated with such supercilious disdain, had become to-day the most fashionable hat shop in Fifth Avenue.

  4. Mr. Brandywine will take me into his new millinery department, I know, for I said something to him about it the other day.

  5. The millinery of Paris is in the ascendant, and there is no longer any need for searching female smugglers at the custom-house.

  6. I would have your courtier, who is but a sort of palace furniture, dress to suit, and make perfect the millinery and upholstery about him.

  7. Her parents live in Worcester, and they believe, poor people, that she has a little millinery business in London.

  8. She was visiting her parents who lived in Worcester, and who believed that she was conducting a little millinery business in London.

  9. I would therefore suggest that you should call yourself Mr. Johnson, and I will say that you are a representative of one of the big millinery houses in London, and that you have come to see me on business.

  10. Her theories about unskilled labour had received a hard blow; and she was beginning to think her millinery efforts were not going to be successful.

  11. Miss O'Flynn took her to a workroom, where several girls were busily engaged in various sorts of millinery work.

  12. When he brought the motor-car to a standstill, before a fashionable millinery shop, he felt none of the surprise that he had when he took Patty to what he considered inappropriate places.

  13. This lady, some years before, had carried on, not very far from the spot where she now stood, a respectable millinery business.

  14. She regarded dressmaking as the trade which could most readily organize and meet the other conditions specified, and millinery as the trade which would come next.

  15. In millinery the wages are from $6 to $7 per week.

  16. A rush to a wholesale millinery just off Fifth Avenue—the only millinery advertising for learners.

  17. Also we must state our last position, what sort of millinery jobs we expected to get, and what salary.

  18. How it spoils it all, when some grand city dame comes sailing in, with her astounding millinery devices, to profane my simple country church and astonish its simple worshippers!

  19. The triumphs of decorative millinery were passed from hand to hand.

  20. Take the millinery course in Temple University," he responded.

  21. She graduated, went to an up-state city that seemed to offer a good field, opened a millinery establishment there, with her own name above the door, and became prosperous.

  22. He knew that a woman who could make a hat like that for herself could make hats for other people, and so, "Go into millinery as a business," he advised.

  23. Many Negro girls are entering stenography, bookkeeping, dressmaking, millinery and other occupations.

  24. And David laughs and takes her over to Martin's for a soda and then, because it is still early, he coaxes her to walk about town with him and as a final treat they stop in front of Mary Langely's millinery shop.

  25. Nobody now but Nellie Langely who goes home every night to the millinery shop where she helps her mother make and sell the bonnets that have made Mary Langely famous in all the country round.

  26. Novels that are to run through a year, or maybe many years, and are to set forth the passions and trials of changing age and varying circumstance, require different treatment and wider millinery knowledge.

  27. Each one of the young men greatly desired to arrange matters so that he could pay her millinery bills, and fix the furnace, and have her do away with the "Sewell" part of her name forever.

  28. Miss Julia in fact was silent partner in this very millinery shop--and silent partner in yet other affairs of which Don Lane was yet to learn.

  29. But the narrow little porch in front of the millinery shop on Mulberry Street held no occupant.

  30. She had nothing to do for the rest of the day, nor for the days to come; for the season was over in millinery as well as in society, and a week earlier Mme.

  31. Mrs. Peak the elder now abode with her sister at the millinery shop, and saw little of her two married children.

  32. The widow decided to make a home in Twybridge, where Miss Cadman kept a millinery shop.

  33. The millinery class has done quite a business in the neighborhood, and turned out some very successful hats.

  34. The girls learn pattern drawing and designing, and may take a millinery course.

  35. In the millinery class the pupils start by making and trimming hats for themselves, so that they learn the different processes in the trade.

  36. So far girls have gone only into millinery or sewing establishments, where they work just as do the boys under actual trade conditions.

  37. Besides the cooking and sewing department for the girls, there is a class in millinery and in crocheting.

  38. Her next sentence, coolly delivered, related to some millinery matter.

  39. The announcement was magical, and had the same effect upon the company, that oil has when poured upon the troubled waters, or the show window of a millinery store on opening day upon the ruffled breast of lovely woman.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "millinery" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    cap; hat; headdress; headgear; headpiece; lid; millinery