CLOTHING in a Sentence

Learn CLOTHING from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
408 example sentences for CLOTHING, such as:
1. Dust could stick to the clothing easily.
2. Lab workers must wear protective clothing.
3. Workers should wear full protective clothing.
4. Members outfit themselves in Civil War clothing.
5. Loose clothing gives you greater freedom of movement.
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 Meanings and Examples of CLOTHING
clothing
 n.  a covering designed to be worn on a person's body
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Confederate money had dropped alarmingly and the price of food and clothing had risen accordingly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
2  Even the small privations of clothing and food did not annoy her, so happy was she to be in the world again.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  They had dozens of warehouses in that city and in Richmond, so the story ran, and the warehouses were crammed with food and clothing that were being held for higher prices.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
4  Shoes and clothing for the army were scarce, ordnance supplies and drugs were scarcer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
5  Warm clothing, when it was obtainable at all, had risen to such prohibitive prices that Atlanta ladies were lining their old dresses with rags and reinforcing them with newspapers to keep out the wind.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
6  As food and clothing grew scarcer and prices rose higher and higher, the public outcry against the speculators grew louder and more venomous.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
7  Scarlett now had food for her household, she had a horse, she had the money and jewelry taken from the Yankee straggler, and the greatest need was new clothing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
8  Every morning when Scarlett arose she thanked God for the pale-blue sky and the warm sun, for each day of good weather put off the inevitable time when warm clothing would be needed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
9  She tore open her top bureau drawer and scratched about in the clothing until the Yankee's wallet was in her hand.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
10  Now all that mattered was food enough to keep off starvation, clothing enough to prevent freezing and a roof overhead which did not leak too much.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
11  The weather was very clear and fine, but so intolerably cold that we were obliged to keep on our fur clothing.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 45. The Affidavit.
12  It was his plan that every cent of his sister's wages should be paid over to him each month, and he would provide her with such clothing as he thought necessary.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: II
13  Whenever we rode over in that direction we saw her out among her cattle, bareheaded and barefooted, scantily dressed in tattered clothing, always knitting as she watched her herd.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
14  She tried to drive him out with a heavy poker, but he overpowered and chloroformed her, and when she revived her clothing was torn and she was in a horrible condition.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In III
15  She bustled around, looking after his clothing, thinking about heavy underwear, quite as Madame Ratignolle would have done under similar circumstances.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXIV
Example Sentence: (198 in 14 pages)
1  Food, clothing and shelter are all basic necessities of life.
2  The older generation prefer a darker and more traditional kind of clothing.
3  Lab workers must wear protective clothing.
4  Workers should wear full protective clothing.
5  People who work with furnaces in a steel factory need to wear protective clothing.
6  They adopted western culture, institutions, and even clothing.
7  In addition to its services, which Sniffen said include medical advice, the center offers food, clothing and emergency loans.
8  Members outfit themselves in Civil War clothing.
9  The museum has a fascinating collection of exhibits ranging from Iron Age pottery to Inuit clothing.
10  This company has purveyed clothing to the armed forces for generations.
11  During the war, no one was allowed more than their ration of food, clothing and fuel.
12  Dust could stick to the clothing easily.
13  Loose clothing gives you greater freedom of movement.
14  It's good to fling off heavy clothing now that spring is here.
15  A windproof jacket is an essential item of clothing for hillwalking.