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
He listed the goodies money could buy: sausages, ham, coffee, bacon, soap, ladies’ stockings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 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
Her legs are encased in striped stockings, her feet in tall black button-up boots.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
