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Example sentences for "negligee"

Lexicographically close words:
neglectful; neglecting; neglects; negli; neglige; negligence; negligences; negligent; negligently; negligible
  1. She made a pretty picture, her soft curly hair damp from the water, her cheeks pink with color after the cold shower, her charming blue negligee wrapped about her slender figure.

  2. She jumped out of bed, and slipped into a chiffon negligee that hung over the chair.

  3. Everything, that is, but that negligee there.

  4. I slipped on my negligee and let him in as quickly as I could.

  5. A door opened on the floor below, and the figure of a large woman in a rose-pink negligee confronted Milly.

  6. At first, perhaps, with a sense of the fitness of things, the negligee is worn only in one's own room.

  7. Nothing is done in a negligee of this sort which cannot be done equally well in a shirt-waist, crisp and clean, with a collar and belt.

  8. What could be more cheerful on a cloudy morning than a flannel negligee of the blessed shade of green consecrated to the observance of the seventeenth of March?

  9. He was dressed in a loose suit of light-colored clothes, wore a negligee shirt, with a soft turndown collar, and had no vest.

  10. The fact that his clothes were unconventional in their cut and that he wore a negligee shirt with a soft wide collar detracted not a whit from his striking appearance.

  11. Mrs. Mellows rose hastily, gathered her flowing negligee about her and beat a retreat.

  12. The maid vanished, the mistress slipped off her flowered negligee and drew hot water in the bathroom.

  13. Half an hour the girls had been in the flowing negligee stage, but they were still intensely busy with the Eleusinian mysteries.

  14. Come in here a minute," she said abruptly, as she trailed her flowing negligee past me into the living room.

  15. Then I remembered and throwing off my negligee and putting on a little afternoon gown, I twisted up my hair into a careless knot and hurried to the door.

  16. She appeared unwontedly sweet and girlish as she sat there, clad in a negligee of some soft silken stuff that clung about the lissom lines of her figure, and with her satiny hair coiled in a simple knot at the nape of her neck.

  17. She glanced down dubiously at the soft, chiffony negligee which she had slipped on in place of a frock.

  18. She had flung a negligee over her night-dress, and while her hair was disheveled, the dancing light in her eyes made her almost beautiful.

  19. Carlita was seated beside the window in her own apartment, her hands folded listlessly over the folds of her white negligee gown, her head resting against the back of her chair as if she suffered from physical as well as mental exhaustion.

  20. She wore a negligee of pale blue and silver that became her wonderfully well, and there was an expression of fond admiration in the eyes of the mother that returned her smile.

  21. Jessica was alone, fastening her white negligee at the throat.

  22. Having done this, she was requested to treat a negligee shirt in the same way.

  23. Many sermons have been preached in Japan in negligee shirts and knickerbockers.

  24. Dressed in negligee shirts, caps, and knickerbockers, with a large bundle tied upon the wheel in front of each one, they present a comical appearance.

  25. And Frederick Augustus's negligee talk is no less offensive than his manner of laying loving hands on my person.

  26. She wore a mauve negligee that was sheer and soft and flowing, and her burnt-gold hair was braided and wound around her head in a picturesque and becoming coiffure.

  27. Becky stood in the doorway, the lace wrap hanging from her shoulders and showing the delicate blue of the negligee beneath--her face was like chalk but her eyes shone.

  28. Joking apart, I have sent you a fine Piece of Pompadore Sattin, 14 Yards, cost 11 shillings a Yard; a silk Negligee and Petticoat of brocaded Lutestring for my dear Sally, with two dozen Gloves.

  29. There was no more of the sort or you should have had enough for a Negligee or Suit.

  30. When negligee hats first made their appearance, a shrewd hatter sent for a well-dressed and popular collegian and offered him his choice of the best hats in the store, if he would wear a negligee hat for three days.

  31. Madeline Spencer was much too clever to let a man see her in negligee when, to him, the hour for negligee was passed.

  32. The girl looked very pretty in the peach-colored negligee she was wearing, its precious laces falling over Miss Burridge's cheap chairs and matting, and her thick bright-brown hair in disorder.

  33. An embarrassed glance askance comforted him measurably: the lady had thrown an exquisite negligee over her nightdress and had thrust her pretty feet into extravagantly pretty silken mules.

  34. Wrapping her negligee round her, she swept magnificently out of the "den," and a moment later again crossed P.

  35. She curled up beside me in a wonderful blue negligee which made her look like a girl.

  36. Certainly, the negligee is distractingly pretty, and I am proud of Father's dress instinct.

  37. I slipped on a negligee and went to my door.

  38. She laughed, and running out of the room, returned with the negligee on her arm.

  39. She threw a negligee over polished shoulders and sat down before the gay little toilet table.

  40. She touched the silken negligee with a mixture of scorn and longing.

  41. She slipped a slim white leg out of the bed and pulled the sheer black negligee down over it quickly.

  42. That classic throat, which rose columnar from the negligee shirt?

  43. Nevertheless she slipped into a silk negligee and curled up on the floor beside a window, to wait for the welcoming voice of her loved friend.

  44. In fact she had found all seven of the freshmen in their rooms and had rushed them a la negligee to her own.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "negligee" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    dishabille; undress; wrap; wrapper