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Example sentences for "clothing"

Lexicographically close words:
clothesline; clothespin; clotheth; clothier; clothiers; clothinge; clothmakers; cloths; clothworkers; clothyard
  1. One flight down he met face to face a manservant, evidently a footman, with an armful of clothing which he was conveying from one chamber to another.

  2. And believe me, one welcomes a change of clothing and a dry bed after a week in this reeking sieve.

  3. He delayed, then, only long enough to change his clothing and to conceal about him certain properties which it seemed unwise to expose to chance discovery on the part of Ekstrom or in the ever-possible event of police intervention.

  4. I have had a beautiful house to live in, the most expensive food, clothing and physical pleasures.

  5. Vast quantities of food and clothing and large sums of money were donated by the churches, the charitable societies, the civic authorities and the benevolent associations.

  6. I put into it the two suits of clothing for wear in the daytime, but I discarded all of my clothing for the pursuits of pleasure.

  7. And as I gave to him a fine description of the clothing I had purchased he brought forth in accord many wonderful boots and shoes for the riding and a walking and also for the dance.

  8. As my father had taught me observation in hunting, I had remarked a large shop for the clothing of men upon the Sixth Avenue near to the station.

  9. I exclaimed with a great alarm when I saw that that knife had thus devastated my good clothing of which I had not many and for the procuring of which I was many thousand miles from my good friend and tailor in New York.

  10. When his former expensive clothing was outworn and he had to buy cheap materials in the shop, this amused him almost like a joke.

  11. He wore the loose, soiled clothing of his people, with a tall turban; there was a bag on his back, and he carried boxes of grapes in his hand.

  12. Hear them sing: Rain, O world, all day and night, We will wash our clothing white.

  13. Then give my salams to my boy, He has gone on a long, long journey, And took neither clothing nor toy.

  14. For a few days he made no serious demonstration, and Rosecrans hastened forward the work of clothing and paying his men, recruiting his teams and bringing back to the ranks the soldiers whom exposure had sent to the hospital.

  15. The need of clothing for the men and of horses for the cavalry was a fruitful subject for debate, and the debate, if sufficiently prolonged, would itself accomplish the delay that was desired.

  16. He was delayed by the issue of shoes and clothing to his men, and when he approached his former position on the 24th, he found that Floyd was reported to have crossed the Gauley at Carnifex Ferry.

  17. Half of Carter's brigade was, at the last moment, delayed at Gallipolis, the clothing and equipments sent to them there being found incomplete.

  18. It was observed that his clothing was wet in spots, as if (so the prosecution afterward pointed out) he had been removing blood-stains from it.

  19. Come to my tent and I'll show you your clothing and some letters that I took from your person; the commandant has your dispatches.

  20. Rather than look for better quarters I lay down on the mattress without removing my clothing and fell asleep.

  21. In that unearthly illumination he saw near him, but apparently in the air at a considerable elevation, the figure of his wife, clad in her night-clothing and holding to her breast the figure of his child.

  22. I had not a rag of clothing and knew nothing of my whereabouts, but all that night I traveled, cold and footsore, toward the north.

  23. I was just certain that Colleton’s clothing would be found in the safe, but still I was a little leary when Ben came back with his story that he had been using the wire.

  24. However, a small pocket electric searchlight had not been discovered when the careless search of his clothing had been made.

  25. When he entered the Equinox Clothing Company's office the clang of the bell drowned out the last words of Marks Henochstein's sentence.

  26. You get around to see the clothing trade once in a while, too.

  27. The Equinox Clothing Company of which Harris Rabin was president, board of directors and sole stockholder, occupied the third loft of a building on Walker Street.

  28. I bet you we ain't got stuck a single garment in any line--cloaks, suits, clothing or furs.

  29. On the wall hung a sign which advised customers to check their clothing with the cashier or no responsibility would be assumed by the management, and it was to this notice that the proprietor pointed before answering.

  30. The moss was the first primeval coating of vegetation just clothing those lava-rocks again.

  31. The proportions of provision, fuel, and clothing to be regulated by the table annexed to this act.

  32. Negro suffrage was established by act of Congress, and the military officers were commanded to superintend the process of clothing the negro race with the political privileges torn from white men.

  33. Her attachment was riveted to him by gifts of clothing and jewelry and bric-a-brac as well as money--such things being to her the only tangible evidences of affection.

  34. Dosia had had no new clothing for such a long time that the sensation of delight was so keen that she almost felt as if it must be wicked.

  35. Here the price of daily living and clothing and amusements was one of the stock topics in the intimate round of suburban dwellers.

  36. And I'll have to buy the children's winter clothing before it gets too cold.

  37. Major Barron's cinematograph and Divisional Band made their reappearance, to the general pleasure; whilst all clothing received a much-needed disinfecting from a travelling thresher.

  38. Passing through Diahman the prisoners were allowed to purchase two horses of the guard, giving some clothing for one, and their note for the other.

  39. Their baggage wagons, about twenty in number, were so loaded with their provisions, arms, ammunition and clothing for their distressed brethren in Missouri, that nearly the whole company had to walk.

  40. Mr. Smith replied, stating that they had come to assist their brethren, bringing with them clothing and other supplies to aid them in being reinstated in their rights; and disclaimed any design to interfere with, or molest any people.

  41. From Wetzel's clothing water ran, his long hair was disheveled, his aspect frightful.

  42. In several parts of London persons employed in making cheap clothing are boxed up in crowds, .

  43. One of the most essential of these was disinfection--the disinfection of rooms where there had been infectious or contagious disease, and the disinfection or destruction of clothing or articles used by the person suffering from the disease.

  44. The piles of clothing she had left had disappeared, and, yes, her trunk had also vanished.

  45. The vision of her yawning trunk, flanked by piles of clothing waiting patiently to be put in it, loomed large before her.

  46. There is a favourite story told against an early Waac that when a demand came for armoured hose, she sent it to the clothing department, but she knows better now.

  47. We would not say for one moment that every one can save, and money spent on clothing and feeding the children and keeping the home comfortable is well spent, but nothing should be wasted.

  48. They worked with the firms accustomed to making men's clothing and now unemployed, and found that they could easily take military contracts if certain technical difficulties were removed.

  49. The Welfare Supervisor should have the duty of supervising the Protective Clothing supplied to the women for their work.

  50. Books, games and clothing also go out from us.

  51. He bid her wash herself all over in the herb bath, wrapping all her clothing first in the cloak, which she was to put outside the door.

  52. Her tears fell as she packed up in very small compass a few articles of clothing and some provisions for the lads.

  53. The trolley troll knew that being dressed in fine clothing precluded no one.

  54. Obviously the clothing department of the army had not been taken by "surprise" by the cruel war "forced" on pacific Germany.


  55. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clothing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    apparel; array; attire; character; clothes; costume; drapery; dress; dressing; duds; ensemble; fashion; fatigues; feathers; fig; garb; garment; garments; gear; guise; habit; investiture; investment; linen; outfit; rag; raiment; rigging; robe; style; suit; thing; threads; togs; toilette; trim; turnout; vestment; wear