Example sentences for: skirts

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

  • They spent the entire meeting pulling their skirts down so their lingerie preferences were not so obvious.

  • Gone are the red-lined, black-velvet circular skirts worn with flower-embroidered, white sweaters; the long-sleeved, tight jackets with fur trim at neck and wrists; the little fur hats and snug bonnets.

  • Of a more relaxed nature, one of the island’s best levada walks skirts the edge of the mountain and takes in the entire valley, with views of the sea.

  • Still, there can be little doubt that in a sector like women’s and misses blouses and skirts, in which employment is concentrated in small contract shops, import competition from low-wage developing countries and unskilled immigrants have contributed to its deterioration.

  • There has been a great deal of cant in the past 30 years to the effect that Dior's era forced helpless women into a posture of submission with its fussily constructed garments, cumbersome skirts, cinched waists, and rigid hairstyles, crippling their feet in high heels and imprisoning their hands in white gloves.


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