GARMENT in a Sentence
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114 example sentences for GARMENT, such as:
1. The heat will contract the woollen garment.
2. In his grief, he tried to rend his garments.
3. He came flying back from a brook waving his garment bannerlike.
4. Mr. Pontellier had prepared for bed, but he slipped on an extra garment.
5. I don't need to see a label to identify the provenance of a garment that someone is wearing.
2. In his grief, he tried to rend his garments.
3. He came flying back from a brook waving his garment bannerlike.
4. Mr. Pontellier had prepared for bed, but he slipped on an extra garment.
5. I don't need to see a label to identify the provenance of a garment that someone is wearing.
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Meanings and Examples of GARMENT
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garment
n. an article of clothing
v. provide with clothes or put clothes on
Classic Sentence: (106 in 8 pages)
1 The lace- trimmed petticoat beneath was the last garment she possessed that was pretty--and whole.
2 Rhett had brought her that linen and lace from Nassau on the last boat he slipped through the blockade and she had worked a week to make the garment.
3 Crouching back against the wall, Melanie pulled the ragged linen garment over her head and silently tossed it to Scarlett, shielding herself as best she could with her arms.
4 He yelled louder at this treatment and she hastily tightened the triangular garment about his threshing legs.
5 Opening Aunt Pitty's closet she removed a black broadcloth cloak, a thin fall garment which Pitty used only for Sunday wear, and put it on.
6 Mr. Pontellier had prepared for bed, but he slipped on an extra garment.
7 The conditions of her life were in no way changed, but her whole existence was dulled, like a faded garment which seems to be no longer worth wearing.
8 That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.
9 All the tearing emotion of the last few hours seemed to fall away from her like a somber, uncomfortable garment, which she had but to loosen to be rid of.
10 His nether garment was a yellow nankeen, closely fitted to the shape, and tied at his bunches of knees by large knots of white ribbon, a good deal sullied by use.
11 He came flying back from a brook waving his garment bannerlike.
12 Therefore, pride compasseth them as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
13 She was dressed in a single filthy, ragged garment, made of bagging; and stood with her hands demurely folded before her.
14 He bears no letter of infamy wrought into his garment, as thou dost, but I shall read it on his heart.
15 On this public holiday, as on all other occasions for seven years past, Hester was clad in a garment of coarse gray cloth.
Example Sentence:
1 The heat will contract the woollen garment.
2 A caftan is a voluminous garment; most people wearing one look as if they're draped in a small tent.
3 I am of the opinion that a cardigan is by definition a button-front sleeved garment.
4 A small, glittering ornament, such as a rhinestone or a sequin, applied to fabric or a garment.
5 The police in Bangladesh charged the owners of a garment factory and 11 of their employees with culpable homicide in the deaths of 112 workers in a fire last year that came to symbolize the appalling working conditions in the country's dominant textile industry.
6 I don't need to see a label to identify the provenance of a garment that someone is wearing.
7 In his grief, he tried to rend his garments.
8 I visited a shop or two, slipped the letter into the post-office, and came back through heavy rain, with streaming garments, but with a relieved heart.