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
Boats gone, decks swept clean, cabin gutted, men without a stitch but what they stood in, stores spoiled, ship strained.
From Youth, a Narrative by Conrad, Joseph
After having viewed and reviewed these remote books, I was going away, when my attention was caught by a small naked volume, without a stitch of binding.
From Books and Bookmen by Lang, Andrew
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
At daybreak the beggar awoke from the swoon, and there he found himself lying without a stitch to his back, and half dead with the cold and the water he had swallowed.
From Twilight Land by Pyle, Howard
