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wearing

[ US /ˈwɛɹɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /wˈe‍əɹɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the act of having on your person as a covering or adornment
    she bought it for everyday wear
  2. (geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it)
ADJECTIVE
  1. producing exhaustion
    an exhausting march
    the visit was especially wearing

How To Use wearing In A Sentence

  • Gideon could see the places where the silver was wearing off the cane and he noticed a good deal of clumsy darning on the inside of the cloak, as though the lining had come away from the backing several times.
  • He was clean-shaven, in his early 30s and wearing a dark blue t-shirt.
  • IT'S a little disconcerting to walk into a hotel room and find a quintet of young men all wearing slap which is far more expertly applied than your own.
  • He fled wearing only a sarong and a tattered shirt.
  • I do not remember too much about Earl except that he must not have been too bright because he was wearing a black-and-white mackinaw - a heavy coat - in the summer.
  • 'Now this beats a', 'muttered his wife to herself;' however, I shall be obedient for a time; but if I dinna ken what all this is for before the morn by sunket-time, my tongue is nae langer a tongue, nor my hands worth wearing. ' Stories of Mystery
  • Anyone found wearing a paperclip was liable to immediate arrest. Times, Sunday Times
  • Rose doubled over when Facer walked in wearing his funny clothes.
  • The constable was on leave and wearing civilian clothes.
  • Hats were popular in the eighties though mostly on girls, so wearing my fedora was a given. The Devil’s in the Diva
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