FROCK in a Sentence

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For FROCK, below is one of 72 sentences:
But the frock had an original back, very low, with a central triangular section from the waist to a string of jet beads at the neck.

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 Meanings and Examples of FROCK
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
frock
 n.  a habit worn by clerics
 n.  a one-piece garment for a woman; has skirt and bodice
Classic Sentence: (70 in 5 pages)
1  I shall bring you dark-green watered silk for a frock to match the bonnet.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
2  She silently cursed the efficient and indefatigable Mrs. Merriwether, the wounded and the whole Southern Confederacy, as Prissy buttoned her in her oldest and raggedest calico frock which she used for hospital work.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
3  I do hope you have some other frock besides that one.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
4  Not that it isn't a very sweet frock, darling, but--well, it does look a bit worn.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
5  Out of the dusk her violin took up the organ theme, and the candle-light revealed her in a straight golden frock, her arm arched to the bow, her lips serious.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
6  This September Sunday evening she wore a net frock with a pale pink lining.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
7  Her frock was an ingenue slip of lawn, with a wide gold sash and a low square neck, which gave a suggestion of throat and molded shoulders.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
8  She wore her expensive green frock, with its passementeried bosom, bead tassels, and gaps between the buttons down the back, as though she had bought it second-hand and was afraid of meeting the former owner.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
9  But the fact is that at the motion-pictures she discovered herself laughing as heartily as Kennicott at the humor of an actor who stuffed spaghetti down a woman's evening frock.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
10  Her expensive frock of beaver-colored satin with rows, plasters, and pendants of solemn brown beads was intended for a woman twice her size.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
11  She bought an evening frock, and exposed her collar-bone to the wonder of the Jolly Seventeen, and talked of moving to Minneapolis.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
12  But the frock had an original back, very low, with a central triangular section from the waist to a string of jet beads at the neck.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
13  But as she examined her wardrobe she flung her ancient black velvet frock on the floor and raged, "They're disgraceful."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
14  She fancied that a man with dinner-coat and waxed mustache glanced superciliously at Harry's highly form-fitting bright-brown suit and Juanita's tan silk frock, which was doubtful at the seams.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
15  Now then, thought I, unconsciously rolling up the sleeves of my frock, here goes for a cool, collected dive at death and destruction, and the devil fetch the hindmost.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 49. The Hyena.
Example Sentence:
1  Few Englishmen wear frock coats now.
2  Seeing them descend to the drawing-room, dressed out in thin muslin frocks and scarlet sashes.