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Example sentences for "overalls"

Lexicographically close words:
over; overabundance; overactive; overall; overalled; overarched; overarches; overarching; overawe; overawed
  1. Tell your friends that they will have to get up at all hours of the night, and at six o'clock in winter, and five in summer, and spend a large part of their time in overalls and rubber boots.

  2. She wore overalls and high boots, and the night braid of her hair was twisted several times round her throat.

  3. From Capheaton to Rosewater, oil-skin overalls and a linen 'Duster!

  4. He was coolly attired in a worn shirt, overalls and a broken straw hat.

  5. The wind blew his patched overalls and flannel shirt about his tall, thin figure.

  6. Mrs. Bodin was sending her daughter, Stella, some little overalls made over for the twins from their grandpa's and a bottle of home made cough medicine "and one of my first squash pies for Al.

  7. There were cowboys and Boy Scouts, boys in overalls and brownies.

  8. And Paxley sort of fumbled aimlessly with the peak of his cap, while Clarihue couldn't seem to get the straps of his overalls adjusted comfortably.

  9. Not that Mrs. MacCaffery had any notions that railroading and overalls and dirt was plebeian and beneath her--far from it!

  10. How he grunted as he reluctantly laid aside his silk-lined white kersey coat and evening dress, and tried to put on the overalls with one hand while he held his aristocratic aquiline nose with the other.

  11. In overalls and sweater I had come, with type-written authority to make the run that night.

  12. There was a certain novelty to me in the thought of a pair of old overalls exploding; but I was soon to hear of stranger things.

  13. He got to the eaves, his feet went over, he was just plunging into space when his overalls caught on a rivet that somebody had left sticking up there.

  14. In the day time the corn fairies have their overalls of corn gold cloth on.

  15. Then the man in overalls took a shovel and began shoveling silver dollars out of the wheelbarrow into the aluminum dishpan and the galvanized iron washtub.

  16. Fifteen minutes later a man in overalls came down Main Street with a wheelbarrow.

  17. The overalls are corn gold cloth, woven from leaves of ripe corn mixed with ripe October corn silk.

  18. Instead of running up in the loft to hide when they came along, many a pleasant chat did I have, standing before the stable door with my overalls on and my sleeves rolled up to my elbows.

  19. Suppose sometime when you were with your overalls on, currying horses, a pretty girl comes along the street, guess you'd run up in the loft and hide, eh?

  20. But she don't want your company, though she'll patch your overalls and give yu' lunch always.

  21. The Virginian shifted his position, and jerked his overalls to a more comfortable fit.

  22. Ted let it go at his second best blue overalls and heavy shoes, a green plaid gingham shirt, with a brown one to change off and straw hat.

  23. An Indian in overalls swung himself into the saddle simultaneously with the snatching away of lassos and blinders.

  24. It never occurred to her that Dan Pennycook was a homely, ordinary, rather dull fellow, in dirty overalls and in perpetual need of a shave; that Donna was a beauty who could afford to pick and choose from a score of eager lovers.

  25. He crowded a can of ten-cent tobacco into the pocket of his new overalls and started for the team.

  26. He went down into his overalls with commendable promptitude, but Pecos only watched him in surly silence.

  27. After I git my first month's pay they will be time to discuss that," replied Pecos Dalhart, and after a thousand protestations the cowman finally went down into his overalls and produced the money.

  28. Thompson, the engineer-lieutenant-commander, who had stood by the ship while she was being built, wore a suit of brown overalls and a harassed expression.

  29. He had charge of the after-turret, with its pair of twelve-inch guns, and spent much of his time in a suit of oily overalls scrambling about in the depths of the hydraulic machinery.

  30. So, with their suit-cases stuffed with overalls and flyers' suits, they stepped into the Arrow and took off.

  31. He wore a faded hickory shirt, and the knees of his bleached-out overalls were patched with blue gingham.

  32. One leg of his blue overalls had rolled up and exposed six inches of bare skin which gleamed whitely in the moonlight above the top of his shoe.

  33. The crew had got their tarry overalls on - and one knew what THAT meant - not to mention the white basins, ranged in neat little piles of a dozen each, behind the door of the after-cabin.

  34. As he came into the light, he dragged his feet, and water ran in streams from his overalls and seeped from his boots.

  35. Next there arrived the Floyds, with their son Tommy, now grown to overalls and boastful talk.

  36. Dorothy took the faded blue flannel shirt and overalls he held out to her.

  37. Though the overalls needed turning up and the shirt was too long in the sleeves and more than a trifle wide across her shoulders, it was on the whole a warm and comfortable outfit.

  38. Twant much I could find, jes' overalls and shirts, like what Ise got on.

  39. This young lady in overalls is Miss Dixon, I take it?

  40. Warm and dry once more, she donned the overalls and shirt and drew on a heavy pair of gray wool socks.

  41. I've got overalls and I can tell you they're real becoming.

  42. But the person in the overalls had done him a service.

  43. He was quite sure that working in overalls was not good for the mind.

  44. DAN enters from the kitchen, keeping time to the music, carrying a bunch of roses, wearing overalls over flannel trousers and a brown golf jacket, and smoking.

  45. Peeling the overalls over his feet, and tossing them on to the left window-seat) Listen to me talking about your walk, when you'll be in a chair all the time.

  46. He came in a few minutes after, looking a perfect ragamuffin in his stained overalls and battered hat, not at all a suitable mate for the resplendent vision in silk and melon seeds.

  47. He wears old stained overalls and a battered hat, and altogether looks a most frightful ruffian, the sort of person one would prefer not to meet in a dark lane.

  48. I bought a pair of overalls at the store, as you suggested, Cloudy," put in Allison, waving a pair of blue jeans at her and vanishing also.

  49. Molly's cousin produced from his overalls a small piece of yellow kitchen-soap, which he broke into scrupulously exact halves and presented with a grave flourish to Sylvia.

  50. In four minutes from the time they had entered the village (Sylvia had her watch in her hand) they were flying back, the car packed with men in overalls and clustered thick with others on the running-board.

  51. But as they fled down the street to the factory they saw, waiting still, some twenty or more men in overalls drawn up, ready, armed, resolute.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "overalls" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.