from head to foot
Example Sentences
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A squadron of men wearing half-face respirators and covered in flimsy personal protective equipment from head to foot vacuumed every crack of the parking lot at nearby Veterans Sports Park.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2023
He was tall, stiff-limbed, decked from head to foot in flowing white robes.
From Salon • Jan. 6, 2022
On Saturday, a group, apparently made up of women students in black robes that covered them completely from head to foot, demonstrated in Kabul in support of the rules on dress and separate classrooms.
From Reuters • Sep. 12, 2021
On a visit to Frick in 1919, the dealer René Gimpel said, “Ravens opened the door for me: Frick’s servants, dressed from head to foot in black.”
From New York Times • Apr. 30, 2010
She was dressed from head to foot in black satin, and many magnificent opals gleamed at her throat and on her thick fingers.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
