stockings

Example Sentences

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Back in the States several months later I mailed her three pairs of nylon stockings.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

He listed the goodies money could buy: sausages, ham, coffee, bacon, soap, ladies’ stockings.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 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

Perilee and I walked down by the creek, shedding shoes and stockings to cool our feet.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson