211 examples of sweater in sentences

" "I'm not coming just to see youma wants a new strainer, and Bugsey needs boots, and Mary has to have another hank of yarn to finish the sweater she's knittingthese are all very urgent, and I'll get them attended to first, and then....

The roads leading from the Purple Springs school lay like twisted brown ribbons on the tender green fields, but not a child, not a straw hat, red sweater, sun-bonnet; not a glint of a dinner-pail broke the monotony of the bright spring morning.

He knows just where he leaves his shoes; His sweater he won't often lose; An' he can find his rubbers, but He can't tell where his hat is put.

Although healthy and happy workers are more efficient than the half-starved and wholly degraded beings who slaved in the uninspected factories and mines during the earlier period of the factory system, and still slave in the sweater's den, it may still be to the interest of employers to pay starvation wages for relatively inefficient work, rather than pay high wages for a shorter day's work to more efficient workers.

roared the officer who discovered the headgear wrapped in a sweater in my rucksack.

Half an hour later he came downstairs, all shaved and slicked upin a white sweater, white tennis shoes, with a silk handkerchief about his neck, and a fatigue cap set rakishly on the side of his head, as if there were no such thing as hot weather or war, while his orderly went up and brought his equipment down to the terrace, and began such a beating, brushing, and cleaning of boots as you never saw.

And suddenly, some thirty feet away, an arm clad in a white sweater sleeve came slowly into sight.

"And some one told me," said Sproule, "that Whipple took his shoes, sweater, and breeches off, and swam out there with his nose-guard on.

Put on plenty of flannels and wear a sweater.

Her stout figure was swathed in a grey sweater and on her head was a battered felt hatthe sort of window-washing costume that has been worn by women from time immemorial.

Snooky, in her scarlet sweater and cap, sniffed them from afar and straightway deserted her sandpile to take her stand at the fence.

And the second was doing a sweater, and the third a helmet.

Wilbur wore belted trousers of no distinction, rubber-soled sneakers of a neutral tint, and a sweater now so low in tone that the precise intention of its original shade was no longer to be divined.

He refused to wear, save on state occasions, any of the beautiful new garments, and again went forth in the cap and dingy sneakers, the trousers without character, and the indeterminate sweater which would persist in looking soiled even after relentless washing.

So one of the angels in the house knitted for him a sort of woollen sweater buttoned down his neck and under his belly, and trimmed it with some white fur that gave it an exceedingly smart appearance.

The offence evidently lay with that dandified new sweater.

She wore a heavy reefer sweater and a knitted cap.

"I came away in such a hurry this morning that I forgot my sweater and my tennis shoes and I really must have them.

"I simply must have that sweater and those shoes," she said.

"We've had enough excitement to-day to last a month," said Gladys, as they hastened tack to the house the second time to get the sweater and shoes.

What defeat will mean?" "Oh," Deacon shrugged; "of course," he went on a bit carelessly, "we want to see Baliol on top as often" He stopped, then broke into a chuckle as the stroke of the gentlemen's eight suddenly produced from the folds of his sweater a bottle from which he drank with dramatic unction while his fellow-oarsmen clamoured to share the libation and the coxswain abused them all roundly.

Sweater girl.

I always have to carry a trowel in my sweater pocket, and I stop every ten steps to dig the cakes of mud off my sabots.

I knew he had had one from you sometime in March, so I looked in his coat-pocket while he was up in the timber lot with a sweater on.

Wander was in the sitting-room and as she entered it he motioned her to get her hat and sweater.

211 examples of  sweater  in sentences