stocking
Example Sentences
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At seven and nine years old—blurs of untucked shirts, grimy knee pants, and stockings bagging down around their ankles— they overtook the shop with their noise.
From Literature
How many water glasses have collected underneath, or crumpled pairs of stockings?
From Literature
He listed the goodies money could buy: sausages, ham, coffee, bacon, soap, ladies’ stockings.
No. “We didn’t know if we should stop you,” said the older woman, “but we wanted you to know you have a run in your stocking.”
She moved around all right, even though her legs were always covered with thick stockings.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
