apparel
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He said tennis shoes and apparel were also either sold out or in short supply, and some stores had jacked up racket prices.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
“Health is kind of the new wealth in China,” said one athletic apparel executive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
He likened it to Peloton’s pandemic-era move into apparel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
This new deal should look a bit different than the last few times that USC extended their apparel deal with Nike.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
And I gave him my boots and he said, ‘Give me your uniform and all the rest of your apparel.’
From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury
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It is also adding to fears among labour rights campaigners that Covid-19 is providing cover for an industry-wide suppression of workers’ voices across the apparels industry.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 16, 2020
The Clean Clothes Campaign said it was braced for further cases of union suppression across the apparels industry.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 16, 2020
India unit and Mandhana Industries Ltd., an Indian maker of apparels with 5,000 employees in Mumbai and Bangalore, will give workers the option of taking the afternoon off.
From BusinessWeek ● Mar. 30, 2011
Where joy and delight and beauty were, there he knew by sure signs were the parts of the mystery, the glorious apparels of the heavenly vestments.
From The Secret Glory by Machen, Arthur
It is confined at the waist by a girdle, and, when employed in the Eucharist, it is often, though not necessarily, ornamented with patches of embroidery called apparels.
From The Church Handy Dictionary by Anonymous
In contrast to the usual portrayals, Barbara Flynn’s matronly Mary is as confident and imperious as her cousin, if not nearly as well appareled.
From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2018
Then by that happy, blissful day, More peaceful pilgrims I shall see, That have cast off their rags of clay, And walk appareled fresh like me.
From Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul by Mudge, James
And as soon as they were come in, they saw Indian men and women appareled like Spaniards, whom they asked in what country they were?
From A Narrative of the expedition of Hernando de Soto into Florida published at Evora in 1557 by A Gentleman of Elvas [pseud.]
He moved through slow aimless eddies of brightly appareled citizens, avoiding other pedestrians, skaters and the heavy, four-wheeled autoscooters.
From DP by Savage, Arthur Dekker
They were met by a band of haggard men and women, meanly appareled, and in some cases little better than half-naked.
From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Drake, Samuel Adams
As a child, his world had been "apparelled in celestial light," but no longer.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2021
The veteran Robert Warwick is properly apparelled and deep-voiced as Chandler.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In the middle of it there was a green silk canopy borne on four spears by four knights gorgeously apparelled.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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Cleopatra was apparelled in a robe of pale green, open at either side, and clasped with golden bees.
From One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules by Gautier, Th?ophile
But the purest of sentiments and the loftiest of purposes do not constitute poetry, even when apparelled in verse.
From The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry by Austin, Alfred
Wordsworth idealized newborns, who he said entered life “trailing clouds of glory” and appareling all they saw in “celestial light.”
From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2013
The day came at last, and at ten Mrs. Dillingham entered the grand drawing-room in her queenly appareling.
From Sevenoaks by Holland, J. G. (Josiah Gilbert)
Pale and hard the face rose from this somber and gorgeous appareling.
From The Secret of Lonesome Cove by Adams, Samuel Hopkins
For as Apollo each eve doth devise A new appareling for western skies; So every eve, nay every spendthrift hour Shed balmy consciousness within that bower.
From Endymion A Poetic Romance by Keats, John
Then, having finished apparelling us and still chuckling, the two touched our arms and led us out, into a room whose circular sides were ringed with soft divans.
From The Moon Pool by Merritt, Abraham
"It is time that I were attending to my own apparelling, which, in looking at thee, I quite forgot," said the widow, rising, and leaving the apartment.
From The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance by Adams, John Turvill
They were always apparelling themselves in gaudy dresses from Paris, and going away to balls, leaving their meritorious little sister weeping at home in their every-day finery.
From Cobwebs from an Empty Skull by Bierce, Ambrose
But Wat, dear Wat, will you not put off your gay apparelling and take a night at the cartes with us at home.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
The kind doctor was still by during the apparelling, or the attempt at it.
From Rattlin the Reefer by Marryat, Frederick
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