dungarees

Example Sentences

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At a cafe, over short coffees, I watched an overbearing clown in star-spangled dungarees making balloon animals for unnerved children.

From Washington Post • Apr. 22, 2022

Created by artist Pierre Probst, she wore red dungarees and led an adult-free existence with a gang of eight animal friends: two cats, three dogs, a bear, a lion and a panther.

From BBC • Dec. 17, 2021

Freeman’s best when he’s not trying to win re-election or standing at the Pearly Gates, when he’s just a guy slouching in dungarees, looking a little louche.

From New York Times • Apr. 30, 2020

Two men, one in a pink beret and blue dungarees, the other in a red velvet suit, encourage a Scottish woman to stay, even though she has work tomorrow.

From The Guardian • Dec. 10, 2019

She wore a thick-ribbed woolen sweater, a pair of navy dungarees, and a pair of calf-high fisherman’s boots, and she stood now looking at the portrait of Arthur from long ago, in his logging days.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson