How To Use Skirt In A Sentence

Despite the lateness of the hour Annabel gathered her skirts and prepared to take a solitary ramble in the garden.
Horatia was still in mourning for her mother, and wore a black skirt, but Lucilla's was of rich deep gentianella-coloured silk, and the buttons of her white vest were of beautiful coral. Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster
Already well dispersed, they probably acquired iron technology around 500 C.E. On their route eastward, the Bantu speakers skirted the northern forest edge toward the interlacustrine region of East Africa. D. Africa, 500-1500
The new film just seems to be skirting round things; it hasn't been brave enough.
Tanks often attacked the outskirts of the city in skirmishes with resistance fighters, adding to the chaos and unrest.

She was wearing a micro-miniskirt (as usual), pulled over what looked like a mostly-lace teddy.
Look out for fashionable twists on uniform basics such as wrap-over cargo-style skirts from £9.
Fashion outlets, also known as discount warehouse stores, are large shopping areas often located on a city's outskirts.
Mohammad Sajjad/Associated Press A displaced child, whose family fled from the Khyber tribal region due to military operations, held onto her mother while waiting to register at the Jalozai camp on the outskirt of Peshawar, Pakistan, on Monday. Asia in Pictures
This woman wore seamed nylons and kept smoothing her skirt. A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
The miniskirt was the defining fashion statement for London in the 1960's and it was reportedly developed by Mary Quant, who ran a clothing store in Chelsea. PWTorch.com
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From the first maxiskirt look, it was clear Richard Chai was on a healthy trajectory. Jim Shi: New York Fashion Week, Day One: BCBG Max Azria, Richard Chai Love, Vena Cava, Ports 1961 & L.A.M.B. (PHOTOS)
The muppet was then slid down to the eye of the hook so that it formed a skirt around the top of the squid bait.
Using a T-shirt and an A-line skirt as guides, make paper patterns.
The old seamstress ruffled my skirt rapidly.
Women wore short, thick kilts of shredded tulles or skirts of deerskin.
As the endlessly sweet but slightly pinheaded stewardess-to-be Donna, She is yum-yum-yummy in a procession of miniskirts, bikinis, halter tops and other wardrobe choices that make the most of her lithe legginess.
She'd taken to wearing a low-slung leather skirt with a single flap at the front and a pair at the rear, her pouch obvious above it.
Verity, in her high heels and straight skirt, tripped over the blocks Ben had thrown out of his playpen.
Shortly after leaving the outskirts of Adonis the car slithered down a sloping piece of ground, teetered over a low bank, and splashed logily into water. The Past Through Tomorrow
A loose gown, open in front to reveal an underskirt, worn by European women in the 7th and 8th centuries.
Planners are committed to developing the city's brownfield sites before granting permission to build on the rural outskirts.
On Thursday, police say, 23-year-old Wellington Oliveira talked his way into his former elementary school in a working-class western outskirt of Rio de Janeiro and opened fire with at least one of two revolvers he carried. Brazil Mourns the 12 Killed by Gunman
There too, one May, I had identified a garden warbler singing hidden within a huge candled horse chestnut that spread its great branches across the road as if it were holding its own skirt. A Year on the Wing
A derelict synagogue may not be visible in the bazaar, but a Jewish cemetery is accessible on the city outskirts. Magda Abu-Fadil: Lebanon's Jews: Loyalty to Whom? BBC Documentary Tracks Vanished Community
Thousands of pounds worth of property have been stolen from properties on the outskirts of town in recent weeks.
However, they do not wear shorts, miniskirts, or strapless or sleeveless tops.
The dress was modest, a medium cut top, three quarter sleeve, tight bodice and a moderate skirt.
Printed pieces including chiffon blouses and jersey midi skirts. The Sun
It was a fitting gown with long slits, black in color and had shiny small stones cut into tiny roses embroidered at the hem of the long skirt.
I was not, for once, wearing my battledress trousers, but had put on my uniform skirt with my battledress top.
Unfinished hems and bulky vertical exterior seams retained an air of elegance, their rough finish somehow marrying perfectly with the slinky lines of dresses and skirts. Times, Sunday Times
Legislation is needed because existing criminal law does not adequately address upskirting. Times, Sunday Times
He ran a long way, until finding that he had not been detected, he skirted a small wood, dug a hole in the soft moss, put in the "tawse," and covered them up. The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner
These dees are affixed by terrets centered on the saddle and by pad screws on both skirts.
Huge towers grew into the sky, as the countryside gradually encroached on the city outskirts.
(He pointed at the bundle she held, while she nodded proudly, beaming on me with good-nature and consciousness of success and prosperity.) "This overcoat is as good as a blanket," he went on, advancing the skirt of it that I might feel its thickness. THE SPIKE
Flippy skirt with unstructured top? Times, Sunday Times
The main roads remind me of the roads on the outskirts of huge cities in the USA, with their seemingly endless miles of fast food joints and lurid neon signs.
I need a top to go with this skirt.
Her skirt was orange pleated, and barely covered the tops of her thighs.
Hats bowl away, coats fly open, skirts cling, umbrellas flype themselves: and their owners, grotesquely running, grabbing, snatching, struggling, are consumed with rueful and involuntary mirth. Try Anything Twice
She wore black, and dressed in long skirts with shirt collars buttoned at the throat.
While all the other girls' clothes were cute and baggy and slouchy, my pencil skirt and tweed vest fit tight across my hips and butt.
All of which begs the question as to whether or not somebody SHOULD make a MMORPG based on the Wheel of Time series, though if they do I look forward to a variety of braid tugging and skirt smoothing emotes along with an "agelessness" slider in the character creation tool. The Ancient Gaming Noob
The girl made use of some waste cloth and made a skirt for the doll.
Emma's miniskirt formed an incongruous addition to this parade of shapeless sack dresses, zip off trousers and sandals.
Replace cheap plastic buttons with vintage ones or add a trim to an old skirt. Times, Sunday Times
A few appeared at the same time on both legs and were slightly raised but not 'knobbly', and not bad enough for her to want to stop wearing skirts. Home | Mail Online
I got two pairs of jeans - boot leg and skinnies - overalls, a blue skirt, a yellow top with a skull beaded on it and sunglasses for $350 which really (in my opinion) is amazing!
This may be least true of the long "culottes", trousers most closely resembling a skirt, and at best mistakable for a skirt, but insofar as "culottes" establish the principle of dividing woman's outward apparel from the waist down, they merely disguise the grave disorder. The Modesty of His Lordship
Does this jacket go with this skirt?
While there are plenty of party girls still sporting low-slung bell bottoms, the hippest in the crowd are swishing around in kicky full skirts, miniskirts and skirts with dipping hemlines.
Changing his mind, he skirted inside the woods for a distance, and again peeped forth. War
This season, a floaty chiffon knee-length skirt paired with a Fair Isle sweater or a tweedy jacket will look extremely hip.
Most of the victims had dwelt in the crowded slums that had grown up around the factory on the outskirts of the city. Times, Sunday Times
She arranged the skirt of her green Zampatti suit, patted the bow of her white silk shirt. MURDER SONG
She is wearing her school uniform of dark blue blazer, grey skirt, white shirt, school tie and blue jumper.
That is why I was so surprised one night when she came into the living room wearing high heels and a mini skirt with side pleats so high I could see she might not be wearing underwear.
Skirting the village, the group crossed a little canal and came under intense mortar fire.
Both Ms. Rahm and Mr. Collins remarked on the high quality of the Target garments 'construction, particularly in the pleated Thakoon cotton dress, with very detailed stitching in its full skirt, and a velveteen Sarafpour skirt that had trapunto stitching along the satin waistband. Do Discount Designer Duds Make The Grade?
Keep it soft with a full skirt for dancing around in as the sun sets. Times, Sunday Times
The waist was small and tapered into a V, and the skirt flared out slightly, with filmy layers overlying the dress.
More than 200 people gathered outside his home on the outskirts of Bolton as a steam-powered cavalcade flanked by police motorcycle outriders escorted him on his final journey.
She hailed me like an old friend and said: ‘Your new skirt looks great!’
Three winners will receive a set of 180-thread-count cotton-polyester-blend sheets, a comforter, two shams and a bed skirt; queen size only.
Pair with a floaty skirt for maximum impact. Times, Sunday Times
Skirt a purple artichoke with a ruff of silvery artemisia, or mix some ruby-stemmed, fat-leafed rhubarb into a garden bed and you're creating combinations as artful as any in the most ornamental of borders. Valerie Easton: Are Your Vegetables Multi-Tasking??
He stopped when he saw her, her thread bare cotton skirt hiked up to her knees as her feet brushed the top of the water underneath a willow tree.
Frol has satisfied me plenty, but I confess that there be three or four skirts hereabout I would not mind lifting. La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth
First, the ultrashort leather skirt she'd found at a closeout sale at Neiman-Marcus. LEO: STAGE FRIGHT
A broadtail lace evening coat was paired with a Venetian blue blouse and metal plisse skirt. Joey Jalleo: Inside Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2009: Third Row at Calvin
Spectator opens up to more vivid colour and patterns, with a strong emphasis on a streamlined look with a variety of coat/skirt ensembles and textured suitings.
Try freshening a living or family room with an elegantly skirted table.
She wore a white blouse and a plain black skirt.
Conditions in this makeshift camp on the outskirts of the town are appalling. Times, Sunday Times
The Mercury said there were fears that the event, in which thousands of mostly adolescent girls parade bare-breasted wearing traditional beaded skirts, had become a target for pornography syndicates.
With her long black skirt and fruit and flower bedecked hat she looked every inch the children's nanny and as a nursery teacher in real life it's a role she is not entirely unfamiliar with.
Women wear colorful gathered skirts with aprons and cloth shawls over their shoulders.
Use a pot of white porcelain or glazed earthenware, with its edge partly serrated and provided with a lid, the skirt of which fits loosely inside
She made a skirt out of the material I gave her.
The lady in the long skirt who rode a unicycle and played a violin was named Sybil. ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1)
The small collection of tops and skirts, based loosely on 1930s Chinese dresses, is elegant and demure, a long way from boho - the floaty skirts, peasant tops and leather disk belts her sister had us all wearing last summer.
They took a cab out to the small chapel and graveyard amongst the marble quarries on the outskirts of town. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
Walls are white, offset with bright yellow doors and skirtings.
Wear these with a flared skirt for a cute, preppy look. The Sun
His wife of twenty-two years is sitting catty-corner to him in a turquoise T-shirt with a tropical fish swimming across her chest; but her slim ankles are demurely crossed, the resting pose of one of those fifties starlets who swished around on-screen in full skirts, sheer hose, and kitten heels. THE HUSBANDS AND WIVES CLUB
It would look great with a midiskirt. Times, Sunday Times
It's just a social convention that men don't wear skirts.
The chiffon shirred strapless bodice curved naturally into her body, and the satin skirt spilled over the floor.
As we crossed the Baltic in a shared ship's cabin, my mother watched to make sure I brushed my hair and teeth morning and night and chastised me for wearing clothes that were too creased or skirts that were too short.
It's hard to say because there were so many wonderful things from the people to the beaches on the outskirts of the city.
But we also have reduced road space and built I don't know how many new homes on the outskirts of town.
She is very slim, just leaving behind her gawkiness, and she begins to hike her skirt up in front of the mirror.
She wore a blouse and skirt decorated in intricate beadwork and a kilt made of old silver coins.
And the shorter length of skirt will get good use too. Times, Sunday Times
Her skirt flared evenly around her, as did her hair, forming a light-colored fan behind her head.
This skirt is way too short.
The third gown was a very fashionable emerald green, with a squared neck and a full skirt.
Travelling south from Preston, it begins to swing to the south-east at Adlington and then skirts Blackrod.
The problem is that I have no first-hand knowledge of the past in Alice Springs except sepia prints of people in suits and big frilly skirts.
The lanai is the favorite reception room, and here at any social function the musical program is given and cakes and ices are served; here morning callers are received, or gay riding parties, the ladies in pretty divided skirts, worn for convenience in riding astride, Following the Equator
Megan helped Kate flare her skirt and fix her lip color.
Today her blonde hair is plaited into French braids elaborately tied with huge dark blue and white ribbons, and she's wearing a short, dark blue denim skirt with her tan Uggs.
She bordered a skirt with lace.
This outfit is one of her more hideous concoctions in the way of outfits: white wedge sandals, a mini skirt made from Dalmatian-patterned suede, and a black and white checked t-shirt with a plunging neckline.
The kind of space that I want to create is one where men do not think that a short skirt equals consent.
“Maybe she pulls her skirt off, and she’s got shorts underneath, ” Bullock said to the costume designer about her character.
He used the corset look to great effect, particularly when he paired a white crocodile bustier with a black silk chiffon petal skirt and a rose silk faille bustier with a black silk chiffon lace inset skirt.
Most sheets, pillow cases, bed skirts and shams are machine washable.
The dress was a deep, dark blue with a billowing skirt, under which I wore layers of crinoline. WEB OF DREAMS
Of course under some circumstances you find yourself skirting the edge of obscurantism.
She caught her skirt up in the chain of her bicycle.
This autumn, the elegant option is a midiskirt. Times, Sunday Times
Her skirt was bedaubed with cheap finery.
He defiantly skirted the Italian coastline aboard his luxury yacht, taunting the authorities who had steadfastly refused to allow him to set foot in his native country for more than half a century.
We got suited up with our life jackets, helmets and sprayskirts, and then put our kayaks in the water.
Masculine pieces with an aviator flavour lend a dressed-down vibe to the body-con animal print skirt. The Sun
She adjusted her skirt, took a deep breath and walked into the room.
Nicola was shown on a bar stool in a black skirt that barely hid her crutch.
Fleeing his broken relationship, Mitch moves into a low-rent house on the outskirts of nearby Harrison University.
Your short skirt is inappropriate for a formal party.
It was a real transformation dress, a duckling - into-swan gown, with a tiny little waist and a tight-fitting bodice, balanced by crinolined skirts. Passionate Relationship
I wore a sleeveless, black sweater and a black and whit checked wrap skirt.
Devil killer body, a large wavy golden hair shine, slender legs wearing a yellow goose miniskirts, show figure of the perfect.
When she came back, Alice had changed into a cotton skirt and a white blouse that was too small for her.
Her skirt had bunched up round her waist.
One of them featured a famous photograph of a gauzy Laura Ashley skirt barely concealing the sunshine-silhouetted thighs of a kindergarten aide named Diana Spencer.
She was dressed in a long blue and pink flowery skirt that looked as though it was pulled out from the sixties and she also wore a plain blue, long sleeved button-down shirt with a high collar.
She watched the girl turn and walk away her skirt rippling around her like water, and suddenly she wished she'd asked for her name.
It was situated towards the northern end of the forest, a mile or so from the outskirts of the town of Lariat.
Summoning all her strength, she pushed herself from his lap only to feel her skirt slide over her half slip to her ankles. HEAVEN, TEXAS
You can't wear that pink jacket with your orange skirt. They'll just scream at each other.
The road skirts the western edge of the forest.
The sun has bleached her yellow skirt.
She hitched her skirt up before wading across the stream.
I love summer very much. In summer, it's hot, and sometimes it's rainy. People wear T-shirts, shorts and sunglasses. Girls love to wear dresses and skirts.
Even a satirist ought to be able to beat a skirt-chaser and possible wife-beater* like Slimy Norman (Quimby) Coleman. Franken Apologizes For Writing "Porn-O-Rama" Essay In Playboy
I've noticed a few women friends starting to dress very prettily and femininely, wearing more skirts and makeup in prettier (less drab) colors. 18th and 19th Century Country Women
Most of the time, he wisely kept a light touch with turquoise beading, trimming fresh white tweed coats and dresses with the stuff - and even won with a swingy beaded skirt worn with a delicate cashmere tank.
The overskirt was cut out, so I assumed it would show an underskirt underneath.
Her skirt was hitched up way higher on one side than the other and the buttons on her shirt were all in the wrong holes.
Suits, skirts and silky lingerie both conceal and highlight the dark side of those who wear them.
It's just a social convention that men don't wear skirts.
For example, the black veil and the farthingale, or guardainfante (the rigid framework of iron hoops to support large, stiff skirts), worn by the sitter were typical of but not exclusive to Spanish fashion.
On the days when she wore a skirt the men on the building site would whistle at her.
By the end, players will find themselves skirting around gaping chasms and outracing avalanches while being battered senseless by Mother Nature's best.
You can't wear that - maxi skirts have been out for years.
She would read, she would write, and she would be free from 'unhealthful, uncomfortable ... inconvenient ... fettering, hampering, monstrous skirts'. The Times Literary Supplement
I’ve toyed with the idea of broaching the subject of ID for some time now, and while I have skirted the issue in class, I’ve never developed a lecture for it, largely because I fully agree that it is non-science. Archive 2006-02-01
She dresses in short skirts and low-cut tops. The Sun
Do not tie your hair up in cutesie bunches and remember flowery skirts are for church.
Devil killer body, a large wavy golden hair shine, slender legs wearing a yellow goose miniskirts, show figure of the perfect.
Emma's miniskirt formed an incongruous addition to this parade of shapeless sack dresses, zip off trousers and sandals.
Meg Dennison was in a long black skirt and a blue patterned silk blouse with a bow at the neck.
Once, she said, as she stood in shallow water in her high-necked, skirted, black bathing suit, a long-nosed garpike swam across her toes and startled her.
Each unit has kitchen and toilet facilities, together with lighting, heating and three-compartment skirting trucking for maximum flexibility.
Giovanni has an athletic build, wears heavy boots and a blue and white shirt tucked into turned-up denim jeans; Onelia wears a faded apron round her calf-length skirt.
The time seems to have come for Japan to stop skirting this essential question.
I opened my eyes and found myself staring at a pair of legs in knee high boots, fishnet red stockings, and a red and white schoolgirl skirt.
It would be a horrible pain to have to deal with the corset and many underskirts as well.
Julia pulled out a pink bikini top and a mini skirt with a tropical design.
She seemed very efficient, and wore short but businesslike skirts and collared blue shirts.
Denim shorts and skirts with frayed edges give an authentic feel. The Sun
Wearing a blue skirt, microstrip wheat color skin looks so healthy, black hair like a waterfall vertically over the shoulders, with a reddish face.
Can't I just wear Granny's long hopsack skirt that covers the veins and doubles as a hand towel? Deborah Divine: Forget Reinvention
Sci Fi was one of the last sacred places on the outskirts of mainstream commercialism, which is what made it so great! SciFi Changes Its Name to "SyFy"
Her long skirt was trailing along/on the floor.
Some said they were victims of upskirting or had photographs taken down their tops. The Sun
Other women on the beach were wearing traditional swimwear, which included skirts, long-sleeved blouses and stockings.
In cultural dances, performers may put on feathered hats and skirts made of sisal strands.
And fifteen exciting hours later of learning how to tweeze eyebrows and match that skirt for every occasion, we had reached Tennessee.
I'm pretty hot (especially in Minnesota's 95˚F May ending), but you might not know I was a Lycra-wearing cyclist, because sometimes I'm a mini-skirt wearing bike-rider (who sometimes passes cyclists). We Need People Who Ride Bikes, Not Cyclists « PubliCola
The brand also has a cool plaid skirt and hoodie that are perfect for this season. Times, Sunday Times
Skirt no higher than two inches above the knee? Times, Sunday Times
She smiled at me and performed a pirouette, her skirt rising up to reveal a flash of white knickers.
On the outskirts, what we call the inland empire, Riverside County, San Bernardino County, out in the desert, where people had to move because those were the only homes that they could afford, there's been a huge drop, a huge collapse in housing there. CNN Transcript Apr 5, 2009
Pair a tropical tee with this skirt and get clashing those prints. Times, Sunday Times
Luckily the gray dress wasn't made to be worn with any underskirts, so it didn't drag on the ground when I didn't wear any.
There were nether garments too, in the form of floppy pantaloons, leotards, tight briefs, G-strings and loin-cloths, as well as kilts long and short, flowing and crinolined, skirts full and hobbled. Arcana Magi - c.1: Oryn Zentharis, Seeker of the Truth
How do you like my new red skirt?
We were visiting a small , thickly walled and lovely town with straggling outskirt.
Leech had a picture of "A Quiet Smoke" in _Punch_, which depicted five ladies in short wide skirts and "bloomers" in a tobacconist's shop, two smoking cigars and one a pipe, while "one of the inferior animals" behind the counter was selling tobacco. The Social History of Smoking
He exaggerated the hips with panniered silk skirts, and skirts were stiffened into subtle bell shapes.
My standard outfit in the summer is a Gap t-shirt and either capris or some kind of flippy skirt. Cubiclegirl Diary Entry
It could be teamed with a skirt or trousers or worn over a dress that is a bit skimpy on the top. Times, Sunday Times
The following advertisement also appeared in the same edition: The gaily painted caravan of the Irish tinkers is still a common sight on the country roads, the waste lots and outskirts of our cities and towns.
On Monday, election results from 52 of Swaziland's 55 districts were officially released at the election commission in Lobamba, on the outskirts of the capital. ANC Daily News Briefing
Her long skirt billowed in the breeze.
He was tied to a telegraph pole in a field on the outskirts of Cork City where he was repeatedly beaten by a gang of up to five men.
George and Harry accompanied the teams, and when they left the main column the forest was skirted in their trip southwardly. The Wonder Island Boys: Conquest of the Savages
Megan helped Kate flare her skirt and fix her lip color.
A focal point of her final collection is a woollen skirt, blouse and long coat - all in neutral colours - with a cream silk organza overcoat on top.
She piped the skirt with blue silk.
Wear it in its purest form with matching trousers or skirt. Times, Sunday Times
It has not challenged, for example, the Administration's cutbacks in protections for the environment and for worker safety, even though those executive fiats skirt established laws.
Women wore a huipil with short, puffed sleeves, a tightly wrapped skirt called a refajo, and a large, bright cotton cloth on the head.
She surprises me by buying skirts, dresses, nylons, pantyhose, and high heels for us.
You need this, not just because the skirt suit has staged a comeback to the fashion arena but because it is possible to look professional, put-together and sexy at the same time.

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