stockings
Example Sentences
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Doreen couldn’t wait for the end of rationing, especially for the day when nylon stockings would be available in England.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 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
Drapes from Sandringham House in Norfolk have been recycled into 25 stockings by a sewing bee group.
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
