Example sentences for: skirt

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

  • Pop songs are supposed to be universal--"I Will Always Love You"--but Merrill was specific with a vengeance: Even if you were minded to write a song about a gal who wears red feathers and a huley-huley skirt and lives on jes' cokeynuts, why would you open with the line "I work in a London bank"?

  • Fashion columnists have been suggesting that the chic woman's skirt will fall below the knee next fall.

  • Once off the ground, the skirt's exact length became a burning issue, first about hellfire itself, since a woman with visible legs was seen by many to be walking toward her damnation.

  • Wearing a skirt or dress without pumps looks pathetic on me, and people tend to stare.

  • Covering the breasts was a joined pair of black velvet, diamond-shaped patches, whose bottom points met the top points of a long black velvet skirt, of which the top edge plunged in one sharp V to the lace-covered navel in front, and swept diagonally back in a bigger V to the bottom of the lace-covered spine.


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