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Example sentences for "collarless"

Lexicographically close words:
collapsing; collar; collards; collared; collaring; collars; collate; collated; collateral; collaterally
  1. Brian looked to right and left, up and down, thrusting his hands into his coat pockets, and taking them out again to stroke his collarless neck.

  2. The fat lady then produced a large fan which she waved over us assiduously, and the collarless man in the soft hat stood by to render aid in any further emergency, smiling upon us as if we were delicacies out of season.

  3. The collarless young man in the shabby slippers smiled a curious little twisted smile.

  4. But you're not," calmly said the collarless young man, just as Mary Louise vanished from sight.

  5. I presume that you are the janitor's beautiful daughter," growled the collarless man.

  6. And anyway, I see by the papers yesterday that collarless gowns is slightly passay f'r winter.

  7. The collarless young man rose from his chimney, picked up his handkerchief, and moved to the chimney just next to Mary Louise's soap box.

  8. He lowered himself into a chair and tugged at the collarless band of his shirt as though it choked him.

  9. He stood rigid, unseeing; a pulse beat visibly in the brown throat by the collarless and faded shirt.

  10. He left the table once to answer a ring at the door and found Mrs. Sprockett's husband there, coatless and collarless as usual.

  11. The first reciter was one of the long-haired collarless brigade, who had been asked to open the programme with a solemn and weighty chorale.

  12. The Turcoman's dress consists of wide trousers falling over the foot and tight at the hips, and of a collarless shirt open at the right side down to the waist, falling, outside the trousers, halfway down the thigh.

  13. He was quite naked beneath his sleeveless and collarless vest which consisted of two jaguar-skins, and wore strings of capivaras' claws round his ankles.

  14. Gamblers and nighthawks, roused by the very feeling of something unusual, hastened out half dressed, to stand in slippers and collarless shirts, looking on in silent speculation.

  15. He wore neither coat nor vest, but a white shirt with broad starched bosom, a large gold button in its collarless neckband.

  16. A vagabond among collarless vagabonds, I loafed up the street, looking into the fronts of little shops where they sold slop shirts at fancy prices, which shops I saw later described in the papers as "great.

  17. The neck is still collarless and cut round, the space filled in with a necklace.

  18. In the thirteenth century the round collarless neck, low enough to admit a necklace of links or beads, persists.

  19. She waved her hand slyly at the collarless soloist and applauded two darkies who came in from outside to make a hideous clamor with banjos.

  20. The collarless youth stretched a glass toward her in salutation and sang: "Good-by, Dolly Gray!

  21. The thin, corded neck stiffened back, rising from a dirty, collarless neckband.

  22. Inside his convict's cotton shirt his chest was caved away almost to nothing, and from the collarless neckband his neck rose as bony as a plucked fowl's, with great, blue cords in it.

  23. Above this a collarless shirt, blouse or short jacket, ragged, patched, of many faded colors, yet still showing half the body.

  24. They wear also a loose collarless jacket with tight sleeves, whose skirts reach half way down the leg.

  25. These are made of all colors, and they wear collarless jackets of the same material.

  26. As they paused to listen Alice stared in fascination at the enormous Adam's apple that worked, piston-like above the neckband of the collarless shirt of vivid checks.

  27. She wheeled around, and there in the shadows of the dilapidated old warehouse someone was drooping over the handle of the junk-cart--a collarless man with baggy breeches and a nose that leaned toward the smudges and hollows of his cheek.

  28. His fingers touched the man's bare, collarless throat, slipped on the throat--and suddenly held.

  29. Jimmie Dale, divested of every stitch of clothing that he had worn, pulled a disreputable collarless flannel shirt over his head, pulled on a dirty and patched pair of trousers, and slipped into a threadbare and filthy coat.

  30. Jimmie Dale carefully placed the clothes he had taken off under the mattress, pulled a disreputable collarless flannel shirt over his head, and pulled on a disreputable pair of boots.

  31. Have you ever thought of knitting an entirely fresh set of collar and cuffs to replace the soiled parts, or to be added to a collarless jersey or coat?

  32. Another simple way of freshening the neck of a collarless jersey coat is to work a strip of plain knitting 4 inches wide and 12 inches long, and stretch it along the neck edge.

  33. From beneath the red-and-gold portico of this edifice there issued a blocky man in a checkered suit, with a hard hat draped precariously over one ear and with a magnificent jewel gleaming out of the bosom of a collarless shirt.

  34. He undressed and he put on him his night wear, becoming a grotesque shrunken figure, what with his meager naked legs and his ashen eager face and thin dust-colored throat rising above the collarless neckband of the garment.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "collarless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.