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Example sentences for "uniforms"

Lexicographically close words:
uniformitarian; uniformitarianism; uniformities; uniformity; uniformly; unify; unifying; unigenitus; unilateral; unilaterally
  1. I shore do 'member de Yankees wid dere blue uniforms wid brass buttons on 'em.

  2. I 'members how de buttons on dere uniforms shined.

  3. When they were relieved, the survivors of the Division came back very tired and bedraggled, their faces black with battle smoke and their uniforms white from the chalky soil.

  4. The uniforms of the Irishmen were plastered with mud, and they had a week's grime on their unshaven faces.

  5. Before the search party had made its rounds most of those serge uniforms had been safely disposed of; a few, a very few were found.

  6. They came over here from Germany; they’ve been stealing American uniforms and smuggling them to the German prisoners so they could escape in them.

  7. Of course I think women in uniforms look very snappy,” confided a lad to me today; “but somehow they don’t look like women to me!

  8. His wonderful old uniforms with their scarlet trousers and gold epaulets rub elbows with my whipcord in the wardrobe.

  9. One company postal clerk, a most upright and blameless lad, to his horror discovered one of the fatal uniforms stuffed in a mail-bag lying at his feet.

  10. The possessors of the incriminating uniforms must get rid of them and get rid of them quick.

  11. In Paris the uniforms were all so beautiful and bright, but here at Bourmont one sees the real hue, faded, discolored, muddy, worn.

  12. Of those who put on uniforms the record is hard to trace, but their dead and mangled forms on countless battlefields proved that the American amazon was no myth.

  13. Garibaldi was a popular hero of the day, and the red shirts of his trusty men were another of the uniforms particularly favored.

  14. Now I have one of my brother's uniforms which I brought in this afternoon thinking that there might be need of it.

  15. The French troops presented a most brilliant spectacle in white uniforms with colored trimmings, and with plumed and decorated officers at their head.

  16. The sun was low down in the western sky, as, riding slowly on my exhausted beast, I drew near the village of Cutwah, and espied the uniforms of the English sentries gleaming through the trees.

  17. Hundreds of legionnaires in white fatigue uniforms or in blue jackets sat on the long benches, drinking, laughing.

  18. The "sac," with its contents of soft uniforms and underlinen, was proof even against a rifle-bullet.

  19. Their fatigue uniforms were torn and soiled.

  20. Two legionnaires in white fatigue uniforms turned into the street leading to the prison.

  21. When we got back to Sidi-bel-Abbes, our uniforms and our spirits were in sad condition.

  22. Their dirty uniforms hung around them in rags; they were faint and emaciated and looked dead tired.

  23. The white linen uniforms, the underclothing, and the linings of the uniforms had to be washed in cold water and with little soap.

  24. To get over this difficulty he invented his "paquetage," which is a work of art, solving the military problem of how to stow away several uniforms in a compact space without crumpling them.

  25. After we had dressed in the fatigue uniforms he commanded: "Take your civilian clothes under your arms," and led us to a little side entrance of the barracks.

  26. The contrast between the snowy neatness of their white fatigue uniforms and our shabby attire was very much in their favour.

  27. A corporal, two sergeants, a sergeant-major and half a dozen legionnaires detached for storeroom work continually fell over each other in their haste to get done at last with the trying on of uniforms and with the issue of the kit.

  28. Horses, saddles, equipment and uniforms were issued to us, and we were soon doing horse and foot drill.

  29. Their uniforms were shabby, and their equipment was not what it ought to have been, but the men themselves appeared to be remarkably fit and well cared for.

  30. Marina, abhorrent of their uniforms and doubtful of the consul's political sympathies.

  31. They look well in their uniforms and are tickled most to death with their outfit, especially their guns.

  32. We also got our fatigue uniforms and are now ready for business.

  33. Did anybody ever before see such a grandmother's rag bag of uniforms in an American army!

  34. That K Company is due in camp this evening, and I expect our uniforms and equipments will be delivered in the morning.

  35. They sent off a regiment that had neither arms nor uniforms and couldn't even keep step, the other day.

  36. Gaudy uniforms were no longer the exception; a madness for fantastic brilliancy seized the people; soldiers in all kinds of colours and all kinds of dress filled the streets.

  37. There are uniforms of all types and colors, the ensemble looking like a variegated bouquet snatched hurriedly by the wayside; the sorting will come later, one doesn't ask how.

  38. There are about thirty of them and at close range they are rather beautiful, that is, their uniforms of spotless white broadcloth with gold trimmings.

  39. Miss Hauser said I'd get my uniforms this afternoon, and be given my schedule, too.

  40. She was surprised to know the old blue uniforms were no longer issued, and that she would wear olive drab for dress.

  41. White uniforms are not customarily worn, either, by nurses at the front--too easily spotted from the air.

  42. Santa Claus at Christmas when I was a kid, was never more welcome than those khaki uniforms coming in through the jungle.

  43. With this restoration of public gayety came a liberal sprinkling of uniforms to the throngs that crowded the ball-rooms, tea-gardens and gambling halls.

  44. Two soldiers were sauntering by, smart in newly issued uniforms of tall red caps, dark tunics, sky-blue breeches, and polished boots.

  45. The second diner wore one of the many elaborate uniforms that signify Ottoman officialdom.

  46. The few tents fell, and men in brown uniforms moved hither and thither near the waterworks building.

  47. Down in the valley, near the spruit, the foreign military attachés in uniforms quite distinct were watching the effect of the British artillery on the saddle belonging to one of their number.

  48. The men of the Pretoria and Johannesburg commandos had the unique honor of going to the war in uniforms specially made for the purpose, but there was no regulation or law which compelled them to wear certain kinds of clothing.

  49. First the Austrian guard in white and gold on white chargers--passing from the flash and dazzle their uniforms threw back in the sunlight into the glow of the shadowed street.

  50. And then, by the time that the Austrians were passing below the window, came troop after troop down from the piazza in all the uniforms of the civilized world.

  51. The uniforms for a baseball nine cost $2.

  52. What was the total cost of uniforms and shoes for the nine?

  53. First came the Imperial Cornet Band of Oz, dressed in emerald velvet uniforms with slashes of pea-green satin and buttons of immense cut emeralds.

  54. They wore white uniforms with real diamond buttons and played "What is Oz without Ozma" very sweetly.

  55. When, at last, they glimpsed American uniforms through the trees they thought they had come up with the company.

  56. He saw men approaching him in the French uniform and believed he was safe, until they opened fire on him with rifles and machine guns--by no means the first instance in which the Germans made such use of uniforms other than their own.

  57. Heaven knows the town had bought uniforms and new horns for the band often enough for it to do something public-spirited once in a while without being paid for it.

  58. The afternoon the men from Sycamore Ridge came to Leavenworth they were hurriedly examined again, signed the muster rolls, and were sent away without uniforms all in twenty-four hours.


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