without a stitch
Example Sentences
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There was the time my father ran out of the house in the middle of the night without a stitch of clothing on because he thought a fox was after our puppies.
From Washington Post • Aug. 19, 2019
WHITAKER'S is almost tame, and I venture to say that it might be read out loud at a party of sock-knitters without a stitch being dropped.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 22, 1917 by Various
This marvelous surgery, without a stitch being taken, actually was successful; the fingers healed, and now only a slight scar remains.
From Geraldine Farrar The Story of an American Singer by Farrar, Geraldine
But you are in sad plight, Matilda, after these weary days of travel, without a stitch to your old clothes, so to speak, or means to buy new ones.
From The Great Mogul by Tracy, Louis
The shopman would marry the boys' sister—a poor simple girl without a stitch of good clothes—and get the bird with her.
From The Aran Islands by Synge, J. M. (John Millington)
