CLOTHE in a Sentence

Learn CLOTHE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
408 example sentences for CLOTHE, such as:
1. Jill crammed her clothes into the bag.
2. She usually wears smart/casual clothes.
3. Truth hath a good face, but ill clothes.
4. She managed a clothes shop two years ago.
5. We got so wet that our clothes clung to us.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of CLOTHE
clothe
 v.  cover as if with clothing
 v.  provide with clothes or put clothes on
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  All the magnificence of these humble parishes combined would not have sufficed to clothe the chorister of a cathedral properly.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—CRAVATTE
2  As three days in April suffice to cover certain trees with flowers, six months had sufficed to clothe her with beauty.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—LUX FACTA EST
3  He, Jean Valjean, had made her abandon those rags to clothe herself in these mourning habiliments.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE INSEPARABLE
4  In the golden heavens of some ancient gothic pictures, there are these charming sacks fit to clothe the angels.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN
5  It's the only way to feed all the mouths and clothe all the bodies.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
6  With the prospect of spending at least two months at Uppercross, it was highly incumbent on her to clothe her imagination, her memory, and all her ideas in as much of Uppercross as possible.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
7  To feed and clothe these ignorant bostooms.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In GRACE
8  They feed the hungry and clothe the beggar.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
9  He was getting into his clothes in fumbling haste.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
10  And they'd all be sorry when I came back here to visit in a fine carriage and with lots of pretty clothes and a house of my own.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
11  He was tall and gaunt and wore a pointed beard of iron gray, and his clothes hung on his spare figure as though blown there by a hurricane.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
12  Just a little over a year ago, she was dancing and wearing bright clothes instead of this dark mourning and was practically engaged to three boys.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
13  He spent money freely, rode a wild black stallion, and wore clothes which were always the height of style and tailoring.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
14  Frequently Rhett pointed out to Scarlett the inconsistency of her wearing black mourning clothes when she was participating in all social activities.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
15  Starved for the sight, much less the touch, of new clothes, it seemed the loveliest bonnet she had ever seen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
Example Sentence: (198 in 14 pages)
1  My mission is to mortify in these girls the lusts of the flesh; to teach them to clothe themselves with shame-facedness and sobriety, not with braided hair and costly apparel.
2  It costs a lot to feed and clothe five children.
3  She managed a clothes shop two years ago.
4  Our new stock of winter clothes will arrive soon.
5  The clothes are available in warm natural colours.
6  To avoid confusion, please write the children's names clearly on all their school clothes.
7  I get broody when I see baby clothes in shop windows.
8  He hastily stuffed a few clothes into a bag.
9  Jill crammed her clothes into the bag.
10  She laid out all her new clothes on the bed.
11  Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
12  Truth hath a good face, but ill clothes.
13  We got so wet that our clothes clung to us.
14  She usually wears smart/casual clothes.
15  The clothes blend with her color of skin very much.