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    Use "wear" in a sentence

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    wear


    wearing


    wears


    wore


    worn


    1. can’t wear that in here”


    2. Again, but more specifical y this time, “you cannot wear that cap in here”


    3. we forced to wear them but homosapiens are forced not to?


    4. you can’t wear that hat in here


    5. · Things you buy now won't wear out


    6. you can’t recapture is time… that and never wear hats indoors


    7. “In the biz—that’s what we call it, the biz—it doesn’t matter what you wear


    8. not impress by what we wear but by what our heart offers


    9. I’ve had to wear a lot of hats lately, including obstetrician


    10. All he had done was ask her not to wear revealing clothing when she went out clubbing with the girls

    11. Wear face mask and mix slowly


    12. · Choose your slippers more carefully than your shoes as you wear them most of the time


    13. In fact he was still combing thru boxes of children's wear abandoned by someone who had owned this house before Ava did


    14. You wear an eternal grin, the result of your lips melting from your face


    15. Boric acid powder is an excellent, safe (do not ingest! Keep away from cuts, wear gloves) control of roaches inside the home if used correctly


    16. She was wearing another one of her loud polka dot dresses and Johnny couldn’t understand how someone could wear such ugly clothes that made them stand out to such a high degree; it was almost as if the dots and varied colors were specifically made to clash as much as possible


    17. "You've always had it in for him, Frank, but he's really not a bad guy! My parts just wear out sometimes


    18. · Wear shoes that give good support and have thin non-slip soles


    19. finally to make the prefect little black dress for her to wear


    20. I shake my head as he rushes into his study … oh Stephen, Stephen, you do wear your heart on your sleeve! Chuckling, I take myself out of earshot … it would be far too tempting to listen in and Stephen didn’t close the study door properly

    21. Soon he is told to love and not love others, be afraid of this and that, do only those things that are considered alright by his elders, wear clothes as made for him and so on


    22. they toil and wear themselves out in their mean little jobs, and in so doing would they


    23. It's a ten penny ticket and yellow's two cents inside but I bring a skin of green in a nightcoat, I don't wear the coat, I just have that skin in the sleeve, I say the coat's for later


    24. although he deemed it unnecessary to wear a tie under these dire circumstances


    25. Stephen looks smart in his evening wear, and that cannot be said of every man who dons a bow tie and formal suit


    26. He had worked steadily for six months, mostly overnights, before he showed any signs of wear and tear


    27. I had to wear the sacking over my head


    28. Where in the name of all that is holy was the sacking? Always wear the sacking in the presence of the guards


    29. We are using the large room behind the stage area for changing … men on the left and women on the right with a row of mobile clothing racks down the middle, where we each have our personal designated areas to hang our costumes, giving some sort of modesty division, though to be honest, who the hell wants to gawp? As the play takes place in the present day, the clothes are not really costumes anyway, but, all the same, my character has certain things she has to wear – some my own and some provided by wardrobe


    30. The negligee I have to wear in the last scene before the interval is not mine, though Andy has made certain comments about it on the way home which have made me wish it were

    31. It’s kind of all the organisations who use the hall regularly to invite me to participate in their festivities, but it is starting to wear me down


    32. What shall I wear today? A quick glance out of the bedroom window tells me that it is windy but dry … at the moment … there are some clouds over to the west that look rather unfriendly


    33. Sitting in the kitchen in my dressing gown, I munch on a slice of toast and try to decide what to wear


    34. Deciding that, as it is my day off, I shall wear something different, I trawl through the wardrobe, digging out a flattering, mid-calf length woollen skirt in a pretty shade of deep blue that Nick hasn’t seen yet … with a pretty light blue top and my best gold necklace (a present from the school when I left) it would look smart and it would make me feel partyish


    35. So, that was my reward for the hard, specialized and unpaid work of one and a half month: The guru talked to me for ten whole minutes (something unprecedented within the five years in total I have attended Janus), he advised me to wear more modern clothes and nicer glasses, and he made clear that men avoid me because of my high intelligence and strong personality


    36. ” What happened in this story? Well, lets do a quick culture study… Rabbis would wear prayer shawls


    37. I am also frustrated by the knowledge that, even if I could present you with such tokens, you probably wouldn’t wear them … I have never met a woman who wears less jewellery or who is so difficult to buy presents for! This being the case, I am sustaining my ego by building up a little store of surprises for you – one day I shall dig them out of storage and watch as you open the various boxes


    38. and racks overflowing with shoes that I never wear,


    39. I daren’t wear a blouse from the old days


    40. I wear a head scarf in winter, walking the dog

    41. MARIA: A woman should be able to wear whatever she wants to


    42. As I said, you look a little like her … she used to wear her hair long like yours


    43. Suddenly struck by a thought, I go through my clothes, trying to find something to wear … there’s a skirt and top I haven’t worn yet … I hold them up against myself, rising on to my toes in an attempt to see what they look like in the small mirror on the wall … at least they are clean


    44. There will be plenty of air coming in thru the vents, but wear your coats, it gets cold up above


    45. My own boots – softened so that I may wear them without getting blisters straight away – plus an old pair of Gilla’s will have to suffice in the footware stakes


    46. ‘There’s only my mantel … I didn’t think I’d need to wear it yet


    47. Her office wear was disappearing piece by piece as they cuddled together


    48. One question that many people ask about online dating is what colors they should wear in their


    49. And to do this there are certain colors that you should wear for maximum impact


    50. Try to wear clothing that you like and that you feel comfortable in














































    1. I repeated the reasoning behind my wearing it and added that I


    2. The day was fine and warm but I was wearing a wool hat to cover my scars – rather odd in the circumstances so I was


    3. therefore relaxed his stance on the wearing of hats


    4. I was wearing an old 1970’s watch [a relic of my col ecting days] and


    5. What a very strange man he was, apparently he insists on wearing hats indoors and would only answer to the name “Famous Author” even though nobody I have met has ever heard of him!


    6. The guy’s wearing a blue baseball cap and the woman has mismatched gloves


    7. Elevating the legs at the end of a long day helps to prevent problems with the blood vessels in the legs, as does wearing support stockings


    8. She had at least, given up the corset wearing this time, and was back in the usual scruffy outfits he was more familiar with


    9. The first day he had ever met Kira, she had been wearing a pair of large clown trousers and a combat jacket, hair having been cropped off with scissors in a fit of self-protective misery after being the victim of yet another sexual assault


    10. “Great!” he said, trying to hold back the big shit-eating grin his heart was wearing

    11. Kevin was polite enough not to mention the fact that she was a woman and shouldn’t be wearing tattoos in the first place


    12. “Of course it shouldn’t be a problem,” Ackers voice came loud and clear over the ear pieces both Johnny and Nancy were wearing


    13. “It’s terrible when they ignore you, isn’t it?” Ackers’ voice came through the earpiece Vinnie was wearing


    14. She was wearing another one of her loud polka dot dresses and Johnny couldn’t understand how someone could wear such ugly clothes that made them stand out to such a high degree; it was almost as if the dots and varied colors were specifically made to clash as much as possible


    15. If anything, the paper boy would have probably been less alarmed if he had stumbled upon a group of people wearing masks and trying to openly burglarize the house


    16. If your student is wearing his pants on his head, like our problem child above, then you are probably not LEERing at him properly


    17. There is really no proper way of teaching and how you LEER at your students is up to you, but I guarantee that opening up communications with students will make your class a better place, free of profanity and with everyone wearing their trousers on their bottoms


    18. Avoid wearing slippers and athletic shoes with deep treads


    19. You were wearing it


    20. He is wearing his Rolex

    21. An OLD MAN, bent back, barefoot, wearing ragged clothes and a beat-up straw hat, sits astride a donkey in the middle of the road


    22. Prince Ahmed, wearing furry slippers, a pair of boxer shorts with Snoopy on them, and a frilly bathrobe, sits miserably on the silk sheets of his huge canopy waterbed, while his portly, graying American lover, RICCI BAOLONI, cardigan sweater and cotton briefs, plays softly at the white baby grand piano nearby


    23. away was the fact that he was wearing the most elegant set of dress frock and tails,


    24. I go in and shake hands with the man standing behind the desk while at the same time I am uncomfortably aware that he is scanning what I am wearing, leaving me with the disconcerting impression that he knows what colour my knickers are


    25. Sammy sat behind a cheap desk wearing a shocking pin-stripe suit


    26. My patience is wearing very, very thin with you


    27. The bedroom door bursts open and, by the light spilling in from the sitting room, Stephen rushes in, his hair all awry, wearing his dressing gown


    28. Girls and boys from the Royal Agricultural College wearing spiders webs for clothes


    29. The skirt that she was wearing was a last throw of a summer wardrobe


    30. Two men wearing black hoods enter the room

    31. The girl with the stain in her crotch from the locker room was wearing the pivot helmet cover


    32. He was wearing a wife-beater vest with Flash Harry pin-stripe pants and city trader suspenders hanging down from his waist


    33. ’ The man said … is he some sort of doctor? I think he’s wearing a white coat, though that is a bit foggy, more a sort of white blur just out of focus


    34. them wearing red, white and blue cockades on the front of their soft red caps


    35. ’ I replied, wearing my supervisor’s hat


    36. wearing a veil when appearing in public


    37. The Doctor was in his mid forties I guessed, wearing an open neck shirt, jeans, grey at the temples, clean shaven, blue eyes, cold hands


    38. He took us in turns to the bathroom, still saying not a word, until, with us both sitting on our bed-rolls wearing our hoods, he knelt down beside me and spoke softly in my ear


    39. Although between us two the stories and the jokes and the games continued unabated, nonetheless the days merged together and we all grew tired of this necessary but wearing role-play with the guards


    40. She was wearing a long purple velvet garment, plenty of sparkling jewels and a black cloak with a star-spangled finish

    41. She looked like she could have been a model, but she wasn't wearing enough clothes


    42. Raincoat: If you are wearing a raincoat while it is raining, there is no need to worry; nobody believes certain gossip about you


    43. You can’t remember anything about these men … what they looked like … what they were wearing … anything?’


    44. The skirt that she was wearing was a last throw of a summer wardrobe designed for hot, sultry Greek nights, and barely covered her modesty


    45. ‘I thought of that and asked her to describe him, explaining that you had two brothers … it was the best I could come up with on the spur of the moment … the receptionist said he was in his forties, overweight, hair receding a little and wearing a posh looking suit


    46. Revealed by candle light the gaoler and the guard stood as if watching street theatre, both of them wearing red, white and blue cockades on the front of their soft red caps


    47. now hat wearing lead singer


    48. baseball cap, wearing a loose vest


    49. A young woman stood in front of her wearing the same official garb as the guard


    50. ‘Drink?’ he offered, his glance flicking to the beautiful beads … he’d not seen her wearing jewellery before, had he?














































    1. He is dressed in thobe and ghutra, wears midnight frames


    2. A good Wilton never wears out, and the furniture, if a little on the traditionally


    3. ’ I replied as the dizziness gradually wears off


    4. She usually wears a white blouse painted by her, like this:


    5. "Like you only blond, wears a pony-tail more often but isn't into electronics


    6. I am also frustrated by the knowledge that, even if I could present you with such tokens, you probably wouldn’t wear them … I have never met a woman who wears less jewellery or who is so difficult to buy presents for! This being the case, I am sustaining my ego by building up a little store of surprises for you – one day I shall dig them out of storage and watch as you open the various boxes


    7. great once the effect of the drinks wears off


    8. I try rubbing the back of my head hard and, for a moment, the pounding eases, only to come back with a vengeance as soon as the effect of the pressure wears off


    9. God, who wears ivory dresses anymore? That's so yesterday


    10. when the drug wears off, the symptoms often return,

    11. The woman in the photo has what I can only describe as a delicate skull cap made up of tiny flowers and leaves which she wears over her perfectly straight hair


    12. Frequent change wears a person out


    13. It wears me out


    14. She wears no make up and has skimmed her hair with the brush


    15. “Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out


    16. “A thin guy that wears bulky clothes?” he asked


    17. “I’ll show you as the after-lunch wears on


    18. The same people will buy a new tape when the old one wears out


    19. “I don’t think so, once the novelty wears off he’s going to cast Chirla off the same as everyone else


    20. People hear the message of the world day after day and it wears on the soul

    21. He wears a clean clout and braids his waist-length hair around his head when he cooks


    22. wears off after a while and does them no lasting harm


    23. He repeated, “Tell the man who wears a cowboy


    24. It’s consumer nirvana! But being subject to Earthly gravity as we are, we will come crashing down once the object of our desire is secured and the novelty wears off


    25. Does all that moment-by-moment lung action result in mostly huffing and puffing that wears you down, or is it more of a nice-n-easy, in-and-out flow that pumps you up?


    26. The Matriarch only wears Isin's productions you know


    27. The problem for runners and other athletes, who crave the high from pushing their bodies hard, is that the body wears out


    28. He sometimes wears a chef’s hat in his product promotions and offers lots of his “Recipes For Success”


    29. “His cloak is made of camel"s hair and he wears a leather belt around his waist


    30. In sunlight and in moonlight, my cat wears the plush sheen of pussy willow

    31. Can be an interesting exercise, thus ruining Shakespeare: Uneasy lies the head that wears the curlers


    32. He wears the dark coat, trousers, and boots of an Alit’aren during training though other times he walks the halls of Nordhel in the bright silks and bare feet as is typical of the Sea Immortals


    33. He also wears two fat golden rings in each ear which mark him as a Shorewarden amongst his people


    34. She usually wears baggy trousers tucked into knee-high leather boots with a coat and sword belt


    35. " "And Manna wears brown


    36. What else must you think when she wears a see-through gown and say “Oh I am so glad to see you but the suspects ran away an hour before I called


    37. He wears TRUTH as a garment! And GLORY is His vesture!


    38. During weekends most Expats wears shorts and sandals


    39. Thus a Policeman in Cape Town wears the same uniform as in Johannesburg and is part of the same Police and has the same powers


    40. A marginalized person, maybe a handyman, the kind of guy who wears a ball cap in the shower

    41. “He wears a striped blue top underneath layers of furs and heavy chains around his neck


    42. He then opened a cabinet of sorts, revealing a large number of what appeared to be very silly hats, the kind the Pope wears


    43. Whoever it was that said the devil wears the disguise of the most beautiful must have been well acquainted with Caroline Steepleton


    44. he wears, they bare the symbol of the Dukes house


    45. The man driving wears a hat, a beard, and a smile


    46. These are the clothes my faction wears


    47. My mother, I see, wears the same smile I do


    48. He wears black shorts


    49. She wears a smug smile


    50. The wind slowly wears the sandstone and clay is deposited on bones-sandstone and clay that are now part of the soil














































    1. He looked too stunned to speak, it was Ava who said, "But you wore those sandals, I couldn't have lost an aluminum there, even if I had been carrying one around, and I don't think I've ever carried an aluminum on my person," Ava said


    2. "I wore those a long time after Kulai's office," he said, and to shadier places, he didn't say


    3. I explained that I wore “that cap” to cover an operation scar and the loss of hair from radiotherapy – this seemed to satisfy


    4. Males often wore a sling under it, but even so, there was no false bragging going on and hadn't been since way before Europe was civilized


    5. He wore a fancy top hat, but it was a size too big and kept slipping over his eyes while he rocked


    6. wore bright colours, drove a rag-top and wanted for nothing, until, that is, Eva came


    7. Both wore thick white bath robes


    8. wore her now white hair long rather than in that typical blue-rinsed perm, stood


    9. He wore a flat hat with a bedazzled brim in what looked like gold-plated aluminum


    10. They all wore black

    11. a pallid ghost among the ruins of their estates in the mountains, a woman who wore


    12. She wore a strange perfume that filled his nostrils with


    13. He wore black from head to toe, was tanned and lean under a shock of black,


    14. He wore eye-liner as black as coal,


    15. face wore a permanent smile, a smile that started in his eyes and spread across the full


    16. He wore a menacing look on his face


    17. In fact she wore a long leather coat, a little incongruous for the summer day outside


    18. He wore a neat medium length thick black beard and a brown military uniform without insignia of rank


    19. He wore a shirtless two-piece suit in the trendy mode, flowing and soft with pants that didn't conceal the size of his sack and large looping epaulettes with solid gold commandant's stars


    20. He wore jeans and trainers and a loose brown shirt

    21. The agony wore on for many hours and insects came and began to swarm around him


    22. Unlike her mother, a poor and feeble creature tied to the old days, a woman who shimmered like a pallid ghost among the ruins of their estates in the mountains, a woman who wore the same, disgustingly stained gown throughout her long and decrepit life, this Countess had broken with those dusty traditions


    23. She wore a strange perfume that filled his nostrils with sweet ungents, with jasmine and rose and lavenders and with something else


    24. He wore black from head to toe, was tanned and lean under a shock of black, flowing hair, showing the aquiline profile of a true son of the Julian clan, except for the silver bar that pierced the bridge of his nose


    25. He wore eye-liner as black as coal, and constantly flipped the sun visor up and down to check his reflection in the mirror as he spun the car through sluicing puddle and gravitational turn


    26. Her knotty black hair was cut shoulder-length and she often wore a harness of shoulder-pockets but never anything else unless she was ashore in town


    27. His face wore a permanent smile, a smile that started in his eyes and spread across the full depth of his features, a smile that warned, a smile that promised destruction once the fun was done with


    28. The shirt he wore was purple with red trim


    29. the attire with a gold sash he wore over the left shoulder, secured


    30. As the night wore on and his fear grew he sunk deeper and deeper into the stupidity of the whole adventure

    31. She wore her golden hair down, thick and flowing on her back, tied with a blue ribbon


    32. At this camp they spent an uneventful Dusksleep, wore Alan out with sex-as-entertainment for Nightday, got soaked in a massive electrical storm for Dawnsleep that they dried out of thru Morningday of the week they finally walked out of that wilderness


    33. As the weeks wore on, Daniel made use of the extra time by organizing the riders and suggesting that they all become proficient with the use of crossbows


    34. He was tanned and wore his shades on top of his head


    35. The ship that wore it was totally different from the typical riverboat


    36. The loungers and tables wore highlights of gilt and carried bouquets of the finest imitation flowers


    37. He wore a wide-brimmed straw hat and his straw slippers


    38. He had a kit bag over his shoulder and wore his cap all askew upon his head, because he was coming home from the wars and although not yet formally and officially de-mobbed, he simply didn’t feel like complying with dress regulations anymore


    39. "You've got quite a bit of catching up to do," he said, reaching thru the mesh that was still all she wore


    40. He had been force-marched out of his hotel room in only his bathrobe, and now he wore the condemned man’s prison blue overalls

    41. He wore an old fashioned, pin-stripe, three-piece suit and a white, collarless shirt


    42. She wore a white wide-brimmed hat and stood on the fringe of the gathering examining the scene until it became clear she was looking for a place to sit, and somewhere she would not have to fraternize too much with the villagers


    43. Their mother's wore black headscarves patterned with embroidered flowers of red and yellow and wore black boleros, white blouses and aprons, all finely embroidered; and walked in boots of softened leather


    44. wore his old sneakers


    45. She wore her uniform like a brownie scout and managed to look like she was no more than a very pubescent twelve


    46. He wore an impeccable


    47. The Shark-IV had several user panels but they controlled things like what kind of suit it wore, the color and style of hair, features, build, the sound and tone of voice it used, its manners and personality type and what hobbies it should speak of in social settings


    48. He informed Rayne that all women wore long gowns when attending the court; to do otherwise would be considered an insult


    49. She was fun to watch, he should discipline her for the clothing she wore on duty, but it was all perfectly legal


    50. He wore a chest full of medals, which impressed Tarak, who asked about them














































    1. It was true, several layers of tough tape had already worn thru on his old ones


    2. Protective glasses should be worn while working in situations of heat, light, dust, smoke, etc


    3. Two thousand years of foot traffic had worn the floors to rolling hills, the glass in the windows had sagged and the marble plumbing fixtures were heavily eroded, though they were just replaced a few centuries ago


    4. Afternoonday can be quite warm, even as winter begins in the north, so for one day of the week lowland clothing can be worn


    5. He has worn his monstrous reputation like a badge


    6. Much to the puzzlement of recent experts, Blitzer has worn the beard of T


    7. since his arrival had worn her out


    8. The Persian carpets are somewhat worn and frayed


    9. Her dresses were simple, worn only


    10. shoulders, not worn, as that would be too much admission of sensibility, but

    11. Five pale-skinned men in worn fatigues, grubby looking men with wild shocks of hair, were shown laying face down on the tarmac at Tunis airport, surrounded by black-clad soldiers in masks holding automatic weapons


    12. Her dresses were simple, worn only the once, and never stained when she put them on


    13. Towel: If you are using a nice, clean towel, you will have good health and family happiness; if it is worn out and dirty, it means the opposite


    14. The light fleece top that she had ultimately decided to bring along sat snugly over her shoulders, not worn, as that would be too much admission of sensibility, but comforting nonetheless


    15. The two Jodechians turned and walked down the worn path that


    16. The best thing to wrap his foot with was the only short robe Desa brought with her, the same one she had worn the night of his first reading lesson


    17. Such a pity you have not worn it


    18. of jumpers worn without the complication


    19. It was very cold, he was glad he had worn the leather jacket as Kate had suggested


    20. and the stone lies on its side, the inscription worn away,

    21. her heels scratching the smooth worn wood


    22. have worn the green badge of jealousy


    23. Suddenly struck by a thought, I go through my clothes, trying to find something to wear … there’s a skirt and top I haven’t worn yet … I hold them up against myself, rising on to my toes in an attempt to see what they look like in the small mirror on the wall … at least they are clean


    24. the grass at the Rec worn away in goal mouths


    25. Between the two of them, everything is worn with an eccentric disregard for the conventions of the day


    26. Cyberia tried to be brave but the trauma of the robbery combined with the endless trials of her new life had worn her out


    27. The track is obviously very old, almost a hollow way as I have seen in some parts of Cornwall, in that the banks either side are a lot higher than the surface of the path, which has been worn down by generations of pilgrims


    28. “Everything I have is worn out


    29. Old doors, like old shoes, are worn through years of use


    30. I had worn a blue T-

    31. after an hour I am worn out and suggest that we call it a day


    32. The next Sunday evening, with both of the Roach boys quite worn out by the wheeling of barrow loads of hardcore into the brick curtained hole where the new patio was taking shape, Helen Roach suggested her husband go down to the pub for a couple of beers


    33. She’s not lost the chubbiness I remember so clearly, but is a pretty girl - though rather paler and more worn looking that she used to be


    34. combined with the endless trials of her new life had worn her out


    35. Instead of fussing with her skin, most of the time Ava sat there was taken on the elaborate hairdo and jeweled headdress that was worn during the ceremony


    36. back to it without end and you could have or have or will have worn it out to


    37. The street was paved with blocks so ancient that the cart tracks were worn deep


    38. have touched on it, then as soon as it worn, to let it go


    39. worn out by the wheeling of barrow loads of hardcore into the brick


    40. “That would really have worn you out

    41. into the pocket of his worn tweed jacket


    42. in one of the divided sections, sliding their way onto the worn seating


    43. My body won’t go on much more, it is worn out


    44. He could also see the ruts worn in the


    45. The rest of the large bar-room was furnished with worn wooden


    46. He sounded worn out


    47. They are comfortable with screen doctors, watching them from the safety of well worn armchairs and familiar surroundings


    48. worn, and in fact seldom used since it was rather slippery in all but


    49. Harry's dictionary became dog-eared and worn through constant reference and the texts of his book lists had all been crossed through as he devoured the information and insights each had to offer


    50. block, cracked and worn by the passage of time, and














































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    Synonyms for "wear"

    wear wearing article of clothing clothing habiliment vesture wearable bear assume don get into put on have on fag fag out fatigue jade outwear tire tire out wear down wear out wear upon weary wear off wear thin break bust fall apart endure hold out show off model sport deterioration dilapidation erosion wearing away rubbing off deteriorate worsen abrade age cut down impair

    "wear" definitions

    impairment resulting from long use


    a covering designed to be worn on a person's body


    the act of having on your person as a covering or adornment


    be dressed in


    have on one's person


    have in one's aspect; wear an expression of one's attitude or personality


    deteriorate through use or stress


    have or show an appearance of


    last and be usable


    go to pieces


    exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress


    put clothing on one's body