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Example sentences for "lingerie"

Lexicographically close words:
lingam; lingas; linger; lingered; lingereth; lingering; lingeringly; lingerings; lingers; lingo
  1. Correct me but I always understood that the act so performed by skittish humans with glimpses of lingerie appealed to you in virtue of its exhibitionististicicity.

  2. Interior of the Library of the Jesuits at Rheims, now the Lingerie de l'Hôpital Général.

  3. When she appeared upon the verandah where Margaret sat dressed in a pretty lingerie gown with Wilbur in a light grey business suit, the silence could be heard.

  4. Margaret knelt in a soft flop of scented lingerie beside the indignant young thing.

  5. The trout seemed to have become sophisticated when two of their number had been caught and refused to be hooked any more with bent pins and lingerie ribbon, although it was pink and very attractive.

  6. I wonder what Doctor Wright will say when we tell him we caught game fish with a bent pin tied on lingerie ribbon.

  7. Why, boy, the lingerie waists that the other girls in my department wear make my best hand-tucked effort look like a simple English country blouse.

  8. Mr. Sid Strang gazed at the leading lady in the white lingerie dress with the pink slip, and the V-shaped neck, and the spangled scarf, and turned to Pearlie.

  9. It was a remarkably pretty woman in a white lingerie gown over a pink slip.

  10. With an answer that was quite ungentlemanly the gendarme had already turned to go, when the two girls whom Jake had robbed of their lingerie came tearing up the street and added their outcries to the woman's clamor.

  11. Sliver spoke, as Jake bent to stuff the lingerie into his saddle-bags.

  12. Here four dashing young women were raising a whirlwind of lingerie and slippers, while the crowd applauded and tossed sous at their feet.

  13. White lace skirts were sweeping high in air, revealing black-stockinged ankles and gauzy lingerie in a way unknown to the monde propre.

  14. In her haste and excitement she had forgotten to add the gown meant to go over it, and as she wore no jewels save the chased gold lingerie clasps at her shoulders, the result was a simplicity as charming as it was unintentional.

  15. He sat on the edge of his bed, running lingerie ribbons in his underwear.

  16. Into the closet went the bits of lingerie from the consignment just arrived from Paris, and the other spoils of the day.

  17. Imagine the result of introducing "Parisian thoughts" into the unbleached muslin lingerie of a lot of single-standard-of-morals old maids!

  18. With such lingerie I should imagine that "call again" garters would be the proper caper.

  19. For the girl who has a window seat in a room and wants to keep her room dainty and bright there is nothing as pretty as the lingerie pillow.

  20. Lingerie hats have been used for years, probably long before you were born.

  21. The illustration shows a pretty way of trimming a lingerie hat for a girl of about fourteen.

  22. A lingerie hat] Sometimes the mushroom shape is covered with hand-embroidered ruffles, while again a circular piece having the crown cut out is used.

  23. There are many ways that a lingerie hat may be trimmed and it is hard to say which is the prettiest.

  24. For a pink and blue room the cushion can be covered with pink and the lingerie slip laced with blue.

  25. Shirt and lingerie waists are not appropriate theatre wear, unless one patronizes some second-class house of amusement.

  26. At a certain fashionable summer hotel a young woman was seen dancing in high shoes and wearing a demi-trained lingerie gown over a petticoat of ordinary walking length.

  27. She will probably have fine lingerie waists, etc.

  28. At that rate twenty-five hundred dollars will not go so very far, and in this day of lingerie marvellously embellished with handwork and real lace, prices mount to surprising heights.

  29. French lingerie is the sign and symbol of French femininity.

  30. I indulged in those antics for about twenty minutes, then unlocked the door, released Pierson, and went upstairs to the lingerie to see how my unpacking was getting on.

  31. I was interrupted by Philippe, who came to coiffer me, having as usual stopped in the lingerie to inspect my dress, the pink one this time.

  32. And this time he pulled out a tortoise-shell shuttle round which was wrapped several inches of lingerie edging.

  33. But Mr. Dawson did not call it lingerie edging.

  34. While heart, soul, and brain were bent dutifully and indefatigably on the lingerie and infants'-wear job they also were registering a series of kaleidoscopic outside impressions.

  35. Ray Willets of the lingerie and negligée sections read her order slip slowly.

  36. And the finished embodiment of all of Ray Willets' desires and ambitions was daily before her eyes in the presence of Miss Jevne, head of the lingerie and negligées.

  37. As head of the lingerie section I've selected trousseaus for I don't know how many Chicago brides; but I'll never have to decide whether I'll have pink or blue ribbons for my own.

  38. Fluffy drifts of equally exquisite lingerie lay scattered about on chairs, over mirrors, across showtables.

  39. Max Tack, junior partner in the firm of Tack Brothers, Lingerie and Infants' Wear, New York, held out an eager hand.

  40. After weeks of expatiating to customers on the beauties and excellencies of gossamer lingerie she found it difficult to work up enthusiasm over the virtues of dishpans and spice boxes.

  41. If I could do that I wouldn't be buying lingerie and infants' wear for Schiffs'.

  42. I'm the lingerie and infants'-wear buyer for Schiff, Chicago.

  43. I've made up my mind that I'm going to buy the smoothest-moving line of French lingerie and infants' wear that Schiff Brothers ever had.

  44. Grace had on a lingerie frock of lavender muslin and lace, and a big hat trimmed in lavender plumes.

  45. Gladys wore a lingerie frock more appropriate for a party than for the breakfast room.

  46. Well, having stolen a classy outfit of society lingerie for you, I'm now going to see if I can steal you a limousine.

  47. No woman who owned the piece of lingerie that graced her shoulders would ever fail to recognize it.

  48. I am sure refined girls do not wish to invite public interest in their lingerie through the use of bright colors in their ribbons.

  49. Lingerie for the Graduation Dress The garment worn directly under the graduation dress has much to do with the effect of the dress itself.

  50. Colored lingerie and bright-colored ribbons should be worn only when the dress is not transparent.

  51. The clothing seemed so light that they kept piling up the articles until they could hardly see from under the mountain of lingerie and accessories.

  52. She saw Jeb with dainty silk lingerie almost covering his head, and she heard Mr. and Mrs. Brewster's words.


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