This is just a gingham dress, you see, but I'm wearing my pearls.
What right have you to come down here with your pearls and your simple gingham dress," she felt they were asking, "and get off a lot of this college stuff to us?
At that the little girl in gingham looked up, as she had been dying to do.
She was a shivering little figure, barelegged, in her underclothes, with her soiled and mussed checked gingham in a heap at her feet.
But names are all music and things," the little girl ingingham insisted.
The little girl in gingham knew that she was coming, but she had been taught that it was not pretty to stare, so she kept her eyes glued to the wee buttons on Mildred's waistband.
She saw a self-assured small figure, in a scant brown and white gingham dress, propel itself down the car steps, behind a big shabby suitcase.
Aunt Martha turned over the pink and white soiled gingham and the discarded underwear.
She put on a pair of Caroline's cotton socks, and the identical pink and white checked gingham in which she first had seen Caroline on the train.
Jacqueline seized the nearly emptied satin candy box and crammed its remaining contents into the pockets of the brown and white gingham that she wore.
Back in the sleeping car the little girl in the checked gingham had waited anxiously to see what her neighbors would do when supper time came.
She went into the drawing-room, and Jacqueline, like one accustomed to getting her way, sat down in the place that the little girl in gingham eagerly made for her in the seat at her side.
The little girl herself wore a dress of pink and white checked ginghamwhich was a little faded and a little short for her.
In the Ford was a sun-browned little girl of six in a stiffly starched gingham dress, who smiled and waved her hand to them.
The little girl in gingham blushed and kept her eyes fixed on Mildred's buttons.
On the porch stood an old woman clothed in a neat gingham dress and wearing a white apron and cap.
Wearing long gingham aprons they hovered over the big table where the forms were being locked up, and watched anxiously every movement of the workmen.
But the gingham dog and the calico cat Wallowed this way and tumbled that, Employing every tooth and claw In the awfullest way you ever saw-- And, oh!
THE DUEL The gingham dog and the calico cat Side by side on the table sat; 'T was half-past twelve, and (what do you think!
For little Miss Brag she lays much stress On the privileges of a gingham dress-- "Aha, Oho!
The air was littered, an hour or so, With bits of gingham and calico, While the old Dutch clock in the chimney place Up with its hands before its face, For it always dreaded a family row!
He remembered her as a tall woman with big teeth and too much chin who wore plaid-gingham wrappers and pinched his nose when she applied a handkerchief to him.
In the next instant he let go of the clothesline, sent the telephone book slipping from the chair at his feet, and plunged like a swimmer toward that loose ball of gingham under the sink.
The short gingham dresses no longer pleased her; she wanted long ones, with flowing sleeves like the blue merino.
On Sundays, too, she wore her black grenadine, but on other days her dress was blue gingham with a long white apron.
Rather we may wear our gingham pinafores on the front porch, and pop our peas under the very nose of the senior warden, and very probably with his assistance, if he perchance slouch down beside us, blue-overalled and genial.
Katy and Gertie, just alike, were trim in blue gingham with smart little blue bows on their flying pig-tails.
The little girl in the blue gingham dress and white frilled pinafore looked at her small hostess reproachfully.
Chicken Little had a big scratch on her arm from a thorn bush, and Katy a long tear in her blue gingham dress, which greatly annoyed her.
At this, the two gentlemen, who had seemed decidedly bored than otherwise at the interruption, deigned to bestow a moment of their attention upon the beautiful child in the faded gingham dress.
Mrs. O'Malligan, big, beaming and red, smiled a moist but hearty welcome from over her tubs toward the little figure in the faded gingham standing shyly in the open doorway.
Mary Louise noticed that the old gingham dress had been washed, ironed and mended--all in a clumsy manner.
Josie departed in her plain gingham dress, shoes run over at the heels, hair untidy and uncovered by hat or hood--a general aspect of slovenly servitude.
Gad, but I was glad the Gingham Gown and "Yankee Jim" couldn't see me then!
A girl in a gingham gown had dismounted from a calico pony and was climbing up to join us.
Also, no doubt, I was influenced by the fear that Jim and the Gingham Girl might call me a quitter.
The Gingham Girl pulled him to his feet and he seemed to be leaning heavily against her fine shoulder as the Mule whisked me out of sight around the next bend.
Jim, I understand, died some years ago, and the Gingham Girl.
And say, what you got that other one in here for, when it ought to be out front of the store showin' that new line of gingham house frocks?
Take that one with the gingham frock out and stand her in front where she belongs, and then put one them new raincoats on the other and stand him out where he belongs, and then look after a few customers.
She wanted to wear her pink gingham dress, the one kept sacred for Sunday, and had even hoped that she might be allowed to display her best straw hat with the blue ribbons and cluster of apple blossoms.
She slipped off her tight gingham with hasty fingers, and in a few seconds she was transformed.
Oh, Dora, look--this pinkgingham with white spots!
Glancing at the clock, which showed ten minutes past four, Marjorie hurriedly slipped out of the pink gingham dress she had been wearing and took the white linen frock from the chair.
I can wear a checkedgingham dress I have and a white apron, by shortening them.
They were a pretty pair of school girls in their short bright gingham dresses, ruffled white aprons and white stockings and tennis shoes.
Her dress of blue checked gingham just escaped the ground, and she wore a gingham sunbonnet with two long strings, which she held in either hand.
They are made of fine gingham and may be put over the dress or worn without one in very warm weather.
The gingham apron for the housewife at her daily tasks, especially if the maid is out and she has any kitchen work to do, is imperative, and she will find the long apron that buttons over the shoulders the most acceptable.
The old woman raised the corner of her gingham apron to her eyes as if some inward emotion had prompted tears, but the fountains of grief were dry.
Mrs. Wambush turned her head and took off her gingham bonnet to get a good look at the man her son had tried twice to kill.
Only Patience was in the room, standing by the jonquils, in her blue gingham dress and white apron.
She wore an old blue gingham that had faded to a faint lavender in course of numerous washings, and she had a linen handkerchief loosely tied round her neck, and cotton gloves on her hands.
There was not a flower on the still, flat young breast, and no kindly artifice beautified the stern face or the bare, raw little hands that protruded from the blue-green gingham sleeves.
Even the gingham aprons and sturdy little shoes which she customarily wore did not disguise Anna's beauty.
Miss Toland, handling bolts of pink-and-white gingham at a long table, straightened up to survey her demure little assistant.
A stiff bluegingham garment went on over Anna's head, the tumbled curls were subjugated by a blue ribbon.
But in her own room she wore gingham aprons which effectually covered up her ribbons and laces.
Presently a woman, enveloped in gingham dress, and lost in a gingham sunbonnet, came out and stood in wonderment, looking at Tavia.
The air was littered, an hour or so, With bits of gingham and calico, While the old Dutch clock in the chimney-place Up with its hands before its face, For it always dreaded a family row!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gingham" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: corduroy; cotton; fabric; nylon
