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  • Examples of clad
    1. Man tattoed or woaded, winter-clad in skins. — Tennyson.
    2. American interest is provided by former NBA star, Dennis Rodman, and the scantily clad Traci Bingham, formerly of "Baywatch."
    3. Despite the fact that these women were starved and badly clad and deprived of the comforts of home, the death rate of the infants dropped steadily to an unprecedently low mark.
    4. Signor Bruschino was updated from a generic buffo character to an oily, scholarly-looking, suit-clad neurotic, excellently acted and sung by Marco Nistico.
    5. 1893 She was richly clad in a bodice of gold-coloured camlet and a skirt of gray silk trimmed with gold and silver lace. — Arthur Conan Doyle, The Refugees, Chapter 3.
    6. They were clad in silken extenuations from the throat to the feet.
    7. We were greeted by an old, pajama-clad man.
    8. Founded in 1975 and led by the violinist Richard Tognetti since 1989, the orchestra looks youthful and hip onstage, its players clad in varying shades of black semiformality.
  • Examples of clothe
    1. Do thou but think / What 'tis to cram a maw or clothe a back / From such a filthy vice
    2. Hence vegetives receive their fragrant birth, / And clothe the naked bosom of the earth. — Sandys.
    3. Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
    4. to feed and clothe a family; to clothe oneself extravagantly
    5. to clothe somebody with authority or power
  • Examples of clothes
    1. I went out in the rain and now my clothes are all wet.
    2. But if a knight shall come with many-coloured clothes, with an ermine bonnet and a yewen bow with a silken string...
    3. He dropped the bucket and got paint all over the floor and his clothes.
    4. An ebullient woman aswirl in colorful layers of bargain-basement clothes and zany hats, Barbara Siegel also happens to be chairwoman of the Drama Desk nominating committee.
    5. This contrast between the emotional intimations of the movement (at one point a performer chases another around the stage, pulling off his clothes) and the dancers’ affectless manner might be a reason that “Bones” can sometimes feel meanderingly opaque.
    6. soppingly wet clothes
    7. ‘No,’ said Luke, grinning at her. ‘You're not dull enough! […] What about the kid's clothes? I don't suppose they were anything to write home about, but didn't you keep anything? A bootee or a bit of embroidery or anything at all?’
    8. He’s shopping for clothes.
  • Examples of clothed
    1. a white-clothed table
    2. The plantation was then a model of beauty and vigorous health, clothed in a dense viminal mass — Francis George Heath.
    3. Unlike the kouros, the figure is completely clothed, although both have the same rigid stance, arms by sides, and wiglike hair.
    4. And clothed all in Garments made of line.
  • Examples of clothing
    1. And one-quarter of teenagers in relationships say they have been called names or harassed by their partner through cellphones and text messages, according to a study commissioned by the clothing company Liz Claiborne , which sponsors antiviolence programs.
    2. In fact, the production is an all-female affair, from the sound designer, Elise Kermani, to the artist Barbara Kilpatrick, who constructed a cabinlike structure for the set and created costumes from clothing donated by Eileen Fisher.
    3. The three detainees were actually army defectors wearing civilian clothing. ‎
    4. clothing made from faux leather
    5. I hastily fireproofed my clothing somewhat by pouring a bucket of water over myself before dashing into the flames.
    6. Choosing lingerie “is about what makes you look good, but also what looks good with or through your clothing,” said Monica Mitro, a spokeswoman for Victoria’s Secret, the brand that catapulted racy flimsies into the public eye.
    7. a full pleated skirt;   She needed her full clothing during her pregnancy. ‎
    8. He got the idea of transforming the traditional sashiko — quilted-cotton worker's pants and jacket fabric — into a modern leisure fabric, a homegrown equivalent of denim, which became another early source of gender-free clothing.
    9. “[…] Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. Oh, dear, there's so much to tell you, so many warnings to give you, but all that must be postponed for the moment.”
    10. But it's also in keeping with menswear's current preoccupation with authenticity, a return to basic, hardworking and hypermasculine clothing.
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