stockings

Example Sentences

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Doreen couldn’t wait for the end of rationing, especially for the day when nylon stockings would be available in England.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

Women would wear dresses and stockings; men would don suits and hats.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026

The other DHS clip is a montage of Yuletide cheer — Santa, elves, stockings, dancing — over a sped-up electro-trash remake of Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas is You.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025

He is also thinking about dropping a lump of coal in the stockings of defense investors.

From Barron's • Dec. 18, 2025

He had fake snow and snow globes and stockings hung by the fireplace and lots of wrapped presents from Santa Claus.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah