without a stitch
Example Sentences
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There was the time my father ran out of the house in the middle of the night without a stitch of clothing on because he thought a fox was after our puppies.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 19, 2019
The shopman would marry the boys' sister—a poor simple girl without a stitch of good clothes—and get the bird with her.
From The Aran Islands by J. M. (John Millington) Synge
After having viewed and reviewed these remote books, I was going away, when my attention was caught by a small naked volume, without a stitch of binding.
From Books and Bookmen by Andrew Lang
Boats gone, decks swept clean, cabin gutted, men without a stitch but what they stood in, stores spoiled, ship strained.
From Youth, a Narrative by Joseph Conrad
At daybreak the beggar awoke from the swoon, and there he found himself lying without a stitch to his back, and half dead with the cold and the water he had swallowed.
From Twilight Land by Howard Pyle
