[
US
/ˈwɛɹɪŋ/
]
[ UK /wˈeəɹɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /wˈeəɹɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
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the act of having on your person as a covering or adornment
she bought it for everyday wear - (geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it)
ADJECTIVE
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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