Example sentences for: petticoat

How can you use “petticoat” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "It makes Melrose Place look like Petticoat Junction ," says Newsweek 's Rick Marin.

  • In 1756 Sir William Johnson wrote to the Lords of Trade, “I concluded this treaty by taking off the Petticoat, or that invidious name of Women, from the Delaware Nation which hath been imposed upon them by the Six Nations from the time they conquored them.”

  • petticoat ( n .) Used symbolically to represent the female sex.

  • In those days a great divide separated underwear from outerwear, so a glimpse of petticoat frill was a thrill.


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