SKIRT in a Sentence

Learn SKIRT 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.

238 example sentences for SKIRT, such as:

1. A nail tore a hole in her skirt.
2. The type of skirt is all the go.
3. She piped the skirt with blue silk.
4. The skirt was too big around the waist.
5. She smoothed the creases from her skirt.

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 Meanings and Examples of SKIRT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
skirt
 n.  the part of a coat or dress that hangs below the waist
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Cade lounged gracefully on her left, plucking at her skirt to attract her attention and staring up with smoldering eyes at Stuart.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  If she could only be with Ellen, just to see her, to hold onto her skirt, to cry and pour out the whole story in her lap.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  "Oh, now I've made you cry, too," sobbed Pittypat, in a pleased way, fumbling in her skirt pocket for her handkerchief.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  Then she turned blindly, bent on flight into the refreshment rooms, but her skirt caught on a nail of the booth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  "Dey's in yo skirt pocket," said Prissy, who had been hovering behind Scarlett, enjoying the sensational drama.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
6  Pitty fumbled at her skirt and held the vial to her nose.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
7  She started after him but Mrs. Elsing caught her skirt and held her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
8  Miss Hope, death in her face, sat erect beside her, holding her sister's skirt in a tight grasp.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
9  She filled her skirt with the best of them and came back across the soft earth, collecting small pebbles in her slippers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
10  Scarlett laid down the reins and pulled up her skirt.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
11  Hardly waiting to rub the dirt off on her skirt, she bit off half and swallowed it hastily.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
12  Quickly and noiselessly, she ran into the upper hall and down the stairs, steadying herself on the banisters with one hand and holding the pistol close to her thigh in the folds of her skirt.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
13  She stopped and wrung her hands and the frightened sobbing of little Wade who was clutching Melanie's skirt added to her panic.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
14  He ran to her, like a small frightened animal, and clutching her wide skirt, buried his face in it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
15  And, as the child only gripped her skirt the tighter, she said clearly: "Be a little man, Wade."
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
Example Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1  She tucked up her skirt and waded across the stream.
2  The skirt was too big around the waist.
3  This skirt and this blouse go together well.
4  The type of skirt is all the go.
5  Her tight skirt hikes up when she sits down.
6  She rubbed out those dirty marks on her white skirt.
7  Those black shoes clash with that white skirt.
8  She piped the skirt with blue silk.
9  Wearing a blue skirt, microstrip wheat color skin looks so healthy, black hair like a waterfall vertically over the shoulders, with a reddish face.
10  She smoothed the creases from her skirt.
11  A nail tore a hole in her skirt.
12  She made a skirt out of the material I gave her.
13  I have to wear a petticoat under this skirt to prevent it from riding up when I move.
14  She was wearing a rather brief skirt, as I recall.
15  She pressed her skirt to try to remove all the wrinkles.