stockings
Example Sentences
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Back in the States several months later I mailed her three pairs of nylon stockings.
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
He is also thinking about dropping a lump of coal in the stockings of defense investors.
From Barron's ● Dec. 18, 2025
Mr. Popper pulled obediently at the clothesline, while Captain Cook took a parting peck at Mrs. Callahan’s striped stockings.
From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater
