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Example sentences for "hoopskirts"

Lexicographically close words:
hooping; hoopoe; hoopoes; hoops; hoopskirt; hoor; hoorah; hooray; hoos; hoose
  1. Their branches spread out like great hoopskirts of green.

  2. Old newspapers before the war, and old magazines with hoopskirts in them and bonnets with flowers inside the poke!

  3. Their hoopskirts were so vast that the upper part of their bodies seemed to be poised on balloons; the door of the salon was scarcely wide enough to allow them to pass through.

  4. By the way, there's one other condition: my Sicilian is particular that she shall be a Parisian; he insists on that; he thinks that no women but the Parisians can wear hoopskirts gracefully.

  5. But Philémon suddenly spied between two hoopskirts the gentleman who had been introduced as a wealthy Italian count.

  6. Hoopskirts of such size as has been mentioned were too enormous for chairs, so a sort of stool without arms or back became a necessary article of furniture.

  7. Round his person the king loved to group his retinue, and down the broad staircases of the gardens sixty ladies with hoopskirts measuring twenty-four feet in circumference could move easily.

  8. About the very last days of the war one of these old hoopskirts played a conspicuous part in a tragedy in the suburbs of Camilla, then a very small village, the county seat of Mitchell County, Ga.

  9. Our women managed the trains and the hoopskirts just as tactfully and thoroughly and gracefully as they did their hard-headed husbands and silly sweethearts.

  10. And in spite of hoopskirts and tiny slippers and gingerly-perched hats the two girls ran to the front door and down the steps to the path.

  11. The guests were not allowed to soil their fingers; as a matter of fact they found they had their hands full with trying to manage their ridiculous hoopskirts and sit down in them without smashing the hoops.


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