stockings

Example Sentences

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He listed the goodies money could buy: sausages, ham, coffee, bacon, soap, ladies’ stockings.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

Women would wear dresses and stockings; men would don suits and hats.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026

The other DHS clip is a montage of Yuletide cheer — Santa, elves, stockings, dancing — over a sped-up electro-trash remake of Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas is You.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025

Curtains that once graced the windows of a royal retreat have been turned into Christmas stockings to be auctioned for charity.

From BBC • Dec. 1, 2025

He felt with his thumb in the painted wood of the mantle the pinholes from tacks that had held stockings forty years ago.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy