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Example sentences for: stockings
How can you use “stockings” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
There are a few word-bearing accessories from earlier days--garters, stockings, fans, and gloves, most with political or erotic reference--but the clothes date mostly from the middle to the end of this century.
The German word for silk stockings escaped me, but the English word hose promptly suggested itself to my mind.
The OED defines them as stockings of one thickness, unlined.
Dolley Madison, he explains, controlled her diminutive husband and "launched the White House's first 'drawing room' receptions which, in her day, were celebrated--the men in 'black or blue coat with vest, black breeches and black stockings,' the ladies 'not remarkable for anything so much as for the exposure of their swelling breasts and bare backs.
She has had bad hair days and skirts with spots, runs in her stockings, a dog that was skunked.