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Example sentences for "underclothes"

Lexicographically close words:
underbody; underbred; underbrush; undercarriage; underclays; underclothing; undercover; undercroft; undercurrent; undercurrents
  1. She ate two of her four eggs, put on the underclothes which were now thoroughly sun-dried, shook out and rebraided her hair.

  2. She gathered her underclothes together, and with the bundle in her arms darted across the hall into the bathroom.

  3. And merely to keep herself in underclothes that were at least not in tatters she had to spend every cent over and above her board.

  4. They all helped her bathe; they helped her select the best underclothes from her small store.

  5. She could not afford to wait until the underclothes dried; she would carry them until she found for herself a more remote and better hiding place where she could await nightfall.

  6. There was no chance to do laundry work; for their underclothes must be used as night clothes also.

  7. She was facing, with only a tantalizing sheet of glass between, a display of winter underclothes on wax figures.

  8. A lighter weight furnishes all the protection you need to your underclothes and turns sun quite as well.

  9. Sidenote: Wear Woolen Underclothes Always] And if you are wise, you will wear full long-sleeved woolen undershirts even on a summer trip.

  10. As a consequence of this delusion, they purchase underclothes an inch thick.

  11. When a long journey is taken, it is economy in the end to purchase an extra steamer trunk for your underclothes and linen.

  12. With one trunk, a shirt box is as much an article to be desired as a shoe bag, but in lieu of this the shirts should be placed in the first or top tray, the underclothes and hose in the second, and the outer garments in the bottom.

  13. Thick underclothes for the Continent; thin underclothes for Egypt, but what underclothes for home defence?

  14. So we come back and change our underclothes and start out again; but we haven't got far before a persistent subaltern starts a scare about invasions.

  15. The few underclothes I had I kept in a cracker-box.

  16. As we got nearer, I saw a sight that made my heart sink--all those underclothes we'd put so much work on, out there swinging in the wind.

  17. Joe made sure the hikers had everything they needed or wanted, and hurried down the path to the scout camp, where he began to cook the supper, while Tom was having a wash and getting into dry underclothes and shirt.

  18. By spending fifty roubles on underclothes for her.

  19. Joe watched, with bulging eyes, a few shirts and several changes of underclothes come out of the box, followed by books, and more books.

  20. Then it was hot irons and underclothes till six o'clock, at which time Joe shook his head dubiously.

  21. They tell us also that we must sleep in hammocks, not get wet if we can help it, and change our underclothes whenever we do get wet.

  22. I haven't any rubber blanket or spare underclothes myself, and I don't believe any of my soldiers have.

  23. He lay on his back, his underclothes drenched with sweat.

  24. The wet underclothes he peeled off and flung away, went into the bathroom, released a stream of clear, watery urine, turned the heat on high and took a steaming shower.

  25. There was a silver-backed brush, that he brushed his hair and beard with, walking up and down in his underclothes and humming to himself.

  26. He treats himself to an extra wash, gets out his clean underclothes from his chest, and changes.

  27. Our warmer underclothes were lost with the luggage, and our friend's house, wonderfully cool on the hottest day of summer, was frigid in the damp, rainy autumn.

  28. The few underclothes I had I kept in a cracker box.

  29. As we got nearer I saw a sight that made my heart sink—all those underclothes we’d put so much work on, out there swinging in the wind.

  30. Sometimes I enjoy seeing women's underclothes in a shop, or when I see a lady or a girl buying them, especially if they are drawers.

  31. The girls are buying linen and underclothes for all of us in Punta Arenas.

  32. While placing this treasure-trove above high-water mark they saw the two girls examining the stock of underclothes which Providence had literally provided for their needs.

  33. I notice that Wada has given me heavier underclothes and heavier pyjamas, and that Possum, of nights, is no longer content with the top of the bed but must crawl underneath the bed-clothes.

  34. She has issued underclothes all around from the slop-chest, and is ordering them to take a bath in the rain-water just caught.

  35. Sorry be damned, and your underclothes too!

  36. I wa-anted to send back some socks and underclothes to be darned.

  37. I went to laying out my underclothes in the drawer so's the lace edge would show on all of 'em that had it.

  38. It wasn't Sunday, but I opened the drawer where my underclothes were, and took out them that had lace edging.

  39. Good morning, Jonathan," Hepsey called, as she presented herself at the woodshed door, where she caught Jonathan mending some of his underclothes laboriously.

  40. The underclothes should be made of some better conducting and more quickly drying material, such as cotton or linen.

  41. She sits cutting out underclothes in the March vacations, when all the schools are closed, and when the heavy wagons from the distant farming region stick in the bottomless Andover mud in front of the professor's house.

  42. March mud without a sudden mechanical echo of that wild, young outcry: "Must I cut out underclothes forever?

  43. I take off my gray uniform, shirt and shoes, and as I stand in my underclothes the Captain feels me all over from head to toes to find out whether I have concealed about me a weapon or instrument of any kind.

  44. We have to sleep in the underclothes in which we have worked all day.

  45. Here is a very small space where I undress, handing the shirt, socks, and underclothes I take off to an attendant who sticks his hand under the door to get them.

  46. Then he gathered up the marmalade and underclothes and put them on the table.

  47. But he rolled into my marmalade and underclothes and against the trap- door.


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