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outwear

[out-wair] / ˌaʊtˈwɛər /
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outlast
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It was a carnival of outwear that could only be matched by typing “Rococo” into the Amazon search bar.

From Salon Jan. 21, 2025

The luxury outwear maker will hold an investor presentation on Thursday, its first since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic and the acquisition of streetwear brand Stone Island in 2020.

From Reuters May 4, 2022

Meanwhile, men’s pants and shorts rose 11.2 percent from a year ago, while suits, sport coats and outwear prices climbed 9.3 percent.

From Seattle Times Jan. 23, 2022

Notably, this is the second time in recent months that Pelosi’s outwear has made fashion headlines.

From Fox News Jun. 14, 2019

They outwear a night and a day in rowing, ascend the long reaches, and pass under the chequered shadows of the trees, and cut through the green woodland in the calm water.

From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

For the sword outwears its sheath,   And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause to breathe,   And love itself have rest.

From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

Kiss Delia's hand for her sweet prophet's sake, Whose not affected but well couchèd tears Have power, have worth, a marble mind to shake, Whose fame no iron-age or time outwears.

From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles Phillis - Licia by Crow, Martha Foote

"An observant eye is better than a yearning ear, and patience outwears curiosity!"

From Caves of Terror by Mundy, Talbot

It outwears the protests and appeals of total generations of unhelped, indignant hearts.

From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.

"Love is the greatest Amulet that makes this world a garden: and 'Hope comes to all' outwears the accidents of life; and reaches with tremulous hands beyond the grave and Death."

From The Great Amulet by Diver, Maud

How the dream outwore the night and strengthened as morning broke gray and cold, and quiet with the stillness of the desert, we need not follow.

From The Cup of Trembling and Other Stories by Foote, Mary Hallock

They call the days the Golden Days that 'neath that king outwore, Amid such happiness of peace o'er men-folk did he reign.

From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by Morris, William

Gladsome and gay forget thine every grief * Full often grief the      wisest hearts outwore: Thought is but folly in the feeble slave * Shun it and so be      saved evermore.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Thou sayest my faith has been forfeit, O fair in thy glittering raiment; But I wearied my steed and outwore it, And for what but the love that bare thee?

From The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald by Collingwood, W. G. (William Gershom)

For, we never got over it; the threadbare Orrery outwore our mutual tenderness; the man with the wand was too much for the boy with the bow.

From The Uncommercial Traveller by Dickens, Charles

“I had outworn my usefulness,” Watt said of his decision, adding that others “wouldn’t get off my case” about his insulting coal advisory panel comment.

From Seattle Times Jun. 8, 2023

Could I remount the river of my years To the first fountain of our smiles and tears I would not trace again its stream of hours Between its outworn banks of withered flowers.

From Salon Dec. 25, 2021

That “hacky, grinding, stinking, outworn, spaceship yarn,” as science fiction author Wilson Tucker memorably put it when he coined the term in 1941.

From Washington Post Dec. 17, 2021

Instead he falls back on older ones, long outworn.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 13, 2017

And as I undressed I saw my outworn clothes and realized that I'd have to shed them.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

I had asked her to go home with me, and she had refused because she is so afraid of outwearing her welcome.

From Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College by Flower, Jessie Graham [pseud.]

But neither at the candle-lighted breakfast, nor later, when Ballard asked him if he were fit for a leisurely ride to the southern watershed for the day's outwearing, did he speak of young Carson's desertion.

From The King of Arcadia by Lynde, Francis

Again, it was her heart "outwearing its sheath," as she put it.

From Elsie Marley, Honey by Gray, Joslyn

That gave father-strength for bearing   Famine-need and sword, Honor death itself outwearing,   And it gave accord.

From Poems and Songs by Palmer, Arthur Hubbell

Lo! on pinions bright, The Love-god comes, a yellow cincture bearing, To bind thee ever to thy dear delight, In nuptial knot, all other knots outwearing.

From The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse by Williams, Theodore C.




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