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

The elaborate practice of the "evzones", elite infantry conscripts wearing skirts, white stockings and clogs, routinely draws a wall of tourist smartphones.

From Barron's • Oct. 23, 2025

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 "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu