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.
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.
Rose doubled over when Facer walked in wearing his funny clothes.
He was clean-shaven, in his early 30s and wearing a dark blue t-shirt.

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
But I am uncomfortable with the way he talks me into buying and wearing the costumes. The Sun
Tracey is wearing a simple black dress.
I also have a goldenrod-colored scarf (you know, one of those pashmina-y things) that goes nicely with this, and about two weeks ago I was in "the city" (which seems to be what you call San Francisco, if you live near it) wearing this dress, that scarf, and an old denim Levi's jacket I swiped from my Dad in roughly 1987 (with bright pink leather gloves sticking out of the breast pocket) and a tourist actually STOPPED ME ON THE STREET and asked to take my picture. The Return (With Butterflies) - A Dress A Day
She was wearing a micro-miniskirt (as usual), pulled over what looked like a mostly-lace teddy.
In one appearance, after the first bout of bombing, he was wearing uncharacteristic horn-rimmed spectacles.
He's a very conservative dresser - he always looks like he's wearing his father's clothes!
She was wearing a neat green shirtwaister and lace-up walking shoes. NOTHING TO WEAR AND NOWHERE TO HIDE: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES
But she is unlikely to be wearing baggy jeans and a hard hat. Times, Sunday Times
He was wearing khakis and a shirt with tiny flowers on it, and his blond hair was freshly washed and flopped over one eye. LOOKING FOR ANDREW MCCARTHY
I went into the office to find the offender, and saw a worried woman crumpled in a chair in the corner, wearing a look of weariness and doubt.
Gorgeous in a seemingly effortless Kate Hudson/Blake Lively kind of way, her future calling dawned on her when she saw her dad performing on stage and became enamored with the costumes the dancers were wearing. Buzzine » Stacey Oristano
Broadcast watchdogs have censured him for swearing on his former BBC Radio 1 afternoon show.
The instructor, a short, stocky, ex–Marine sergeant wearing black-rimmed glasses, navy pants, and a short-sleeved maroon shirt that had his name embroidered above the front pocket, was just what I would have expected. Muffins and Mayhem
Yes the win in Riesa was pleasing as I was wearing a normal costume and was unrested, unshaved and untapered so that's always a confidence boost
Anyhow it took Jae over an hour to cut my hair as I went from having curls half way down my back to wearing it cropped like a boy.
At most weddings the bride wears a veil but at this wedding the bride was wearing a beautiful top hat.
I suddenly realized I was in fact wearing minging orthodontic equipment.
We were lectured by numerous academic doctors, usually wearing scruffy sports jackets or ill-fitting white coats. Times, Sunday Times
Are you wearing cotton and leather, then you need to be stoned, that is a sin!! Billingsgazette.com
Wearing baggies and doing big drops (as an example) doesn't limit your riding.
She's wearing a print dress, low-cut of course, frilly sleeves, a quarter-inch of makeup, and her hair is dyed midnight black.
Rachel Corrie stands in front of an Israeli army bulldozer wearing an orange jacket so that she can be easily identified and seen.
The men, wearing ski masks and dark clothing, were seen running off down Water Lane.
Must make a nice change going to work wearing clothes over her underwear. The Sun
I have also discovered a large collection of Asian male students wearing hairbands.
When I'm not in the production rooms, most of the time I'm wearing a beige shirt, a brown suit jacket with the TWR logo prominently on the front and a plain brown lavalava of similar material.
She stood in front of him with a horsewhip, wearing a smile and nothing else.
So far 640 people have pledged to run, some wearing undies. The Sun
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.
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.
She is wearing blue eye liner and blue eye shadow and blue lip gloss and she has her hair tied up high with a blue hairband and two blue barrettes holding her hair in place.
The teenager, wearing a pink jacket, showed no signs of emotion as she was given a two-year sentence.
The short flowered dress and the high-heeled sandals she was wearing when she arrived in the park that day were identical to the clothing worn by the kidnapper. I’ll Walk Alone
Calliaud, and by arguments and reasons by him delivered, he was persuaded to unsay his swearing, and to declare that he believed that the affidavit which he made at Patna, and while the transaction was recent or nearly recent, must be a mistake: that he _believed_ (what is amazing indeed for any belief) that not Mr. Hastings, but he himself, interpreted. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12)
We're surrounded by families with kids in every direction so I no longer feel shame for wearing my trackies and having unkept hair at three (ok six) in the pm.
Before the swearing of any of the jurors, 15 the defendant or prosecutor in England and Ireland could challenge the array of jurors compiled by the sheriff.
In this light, AKP prominent names are searching for a formula which will open the doors of universities to students wearing headscarf, while preventing robe, turban and black chuddar with the new constitution. Constitutional debate in Turkey
Jamaerah was barefoot, wearing only a pair of ragged stonewashed jeans, playing an invisible guitar to “Put Your Lights On,” rocking out while coffee brewed, singing his heart out in perfect pitch, wings spread, eyes closed, and an expression of sheer ecstasy gracing his beautiful face. Surrender the Dark
He was wearing a black t-shirt with some band's name on the front, and black sweatbands on his wrists.
I was wearing my Smokey the Bear cap, the one that ultimately shrank to an unwearable size in the wake of an unfortunate sprinkler related accident.
And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Dipodic Verse : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
Preacher was standing up over his writing table, unshaved, wearing an unironed white shirt. Rain Gods
She attached a cord and started wearing them around her neck.
Fields was wearing a set of the new jungle fatigues and boots that the advance party had picked up for him.
I was not, for once, wearing my battledress trousers, but had put on my uniform skirt with my battledress top.
My mother used to do the cleaning of the upper rooms in our house wearing a hat and coat. Times, Sunday Times
He was wearing a red V-neck shirt with long sleeves that belled out near the hands, white jeans, and black slip-on shoes with thick white socks.
He was rather plump, and was wearing a ridiculous hat.
A partially nude woman, with folded arms and wearing green socks and purple shoes, stands in the middle.
He was no longer a farmer, just an ordinary man who owned the clothes he was wearing and nothing more.
A youth with a white bandana across his face and wearing a baseball cap walked into the store and demanded staff fill up a white carrier bag with money.
As he walked towards me I saw he was wearing a pale mac, like in one of his films. Times, Sunday Times
This no mail lark is really wearing, I hadn't realised quite how much I look forward to arriving home from work and finding out which books have arrived in the post. 48 entries from October 2007
He is wearing a short-sleeved dress shirt and I can see the scab on his elbow.
Wearing the long undergarments as a nightdress, she climbed into the large bed.
The Chelsea star rose to the challenge last night and gave an assured performance wearing the armband, leading by example. The Sun
She greeted me at the door wearing only her bra and knickers, and a seductive smile.
She was about fifty years old, with a moon face and pixie hairdo, wearing a light cotton kimono.
_Some folks_ should see that my bashfulness was wearing off faster than the gold from an oroide watch. The Blunders of a Bashful Man
But I see a man wearing the same short pants and T-shirt for almost thirty days and I wonder that, why not change?
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
He was wearing a pyjama jacket and a white naval jersey.
Manned Orbiting Laboratory gloves with sharkskin palms and sewn-in steel fingernails, so nimble that an astronaut could pick up a dime while wearing them, even when they were pressurized; long johns laced with plastic pipes, to water-cool the wearer; and box after box of headgear, including Armstrong's gold-visored external helmet, once thought to have been left on the moon. The Seattle Times
We can talk about something else like… your choice of sleepwear,’ he said looking at what she was wearing.
The initiative is being introduced across the country and will result in 37,000 postmen who deliver their rounds on bike wearing the safety equipment.
She begins by wearing a hat that looks like a small wheatfield, and ends resembling a giant purple grape. Times, Sunday Times
She is wearing her school uniform of dark blue blazer, grey skirt, white shirt, school tie and blue jumper.
I even saw a woman wearing a tiger onesie at the train station the other day.
He was standing in the doorway, wearing a frown and a soiled T-shirt, his large belly protruding over his pants, held up by a pair of suspenders.
The figure wearing dark suit, open-necked shirt and stubble, sheltering beneath an umbrella from the torrential rain outside a London cinema, could hardly look more glum.
If you have taken the test before and have previously been prescribed glasses or contact lenses, your optician may want you to take the test while wearing your glasses or contact lenses.
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.
In correct rural circles, having your lawn turfed is regarded in the same light as wearing made-up bow ties.
She was wearing a gold ring with three red stones, and a wrist band with the name ‘Mary’ inscribed on it that may help identify her.
They all looked to the passengers getting off the plane, and spotted a short girl with mouse brown hair and wearing a pink top and white jean shorts.
The protester, wearing a white T-shirt, shorts, sunglasses and a beanie hat, showed no imminent signs of coming down.
A sallow teenager in a cheap cocktail dress wearing too much makeup appears, looking terminally bored.
When the smoke cleared, he was seen to be standing there still wearing the overcoat. The Times Literary Supplement
She suggests wearing them as close to the hairline as possible for a chic look.
Playing the leader of a four-member commando team and wearing a microphone headset, you could issue verbal orders.
He told of a young woman from Burma who immigrated with her family and, upon entering college, identified with fellow Muslim students and began wearing a hijab (traditional headscarf).
In frame 15 the referee warned Holt for ungentlemanly conduct, in this case swearing.
Two firemen in new white asbestos suits had spent thirty minutes wearing looks of bleak disappointment. Bomber
They all do so wearing the right sort of clothes. Times, Sunday Times
He is wearing an old leather jacket, black jeans, midnight blue sweatshirt.
It involves wearing wooden fencing. Times, Sunday Times
There is a man, approximately my age, attractive in a scruffy, academic sort of way brown corduroy jacket, one of those narrow, stripey, many-coloured scarves that men are wearing this season coiled around his neck, tufty brown hair, sitting across the aisle to my right on a strapontin. Power, corruption and lies
She was wearing a large gold necklace set with jewels.
In "La muerte en el este de EdÃ©n/Death in the East of Eden," Hernandez has painted Eve, our foremother, as a dead naked woman wearing the mask of a luchador with orange antlers. Max Benavidez: ELAC's VPAM: A Game Changer for L.A. Art Scene
White-suited drivers, wearing straw hats and Madeiran boots, run alongside, pushing the toboggan to gain momentum.
In the time that she makes me wait (she's finishing her pinkie toe), I think about how I could learn a thing or two from her: she with the hang-loose curls on her head and liberated legs (she's wearing cut-offs). French Word-A-Day:
In the center is Frank, wearing a black tuxedo and looking much younger - no beard then, and certainly no gray in his hair.
His swearing, lasciviousness and blackly comedic distortion of the word ‘spastic’ was nothing that most British youths haven't heard or employed themselves.
Shrobing, begone: the influencers' latest styling trick is wearing your jumper as a scarf. Times, Sunday Times
Can you feature wearing a necktie here?
Fat toffs wearing pink corduroy trousers. The Sun
She came trooping down the driveway wearing a simple pair of clean jeans that weren't too fancy, a light blue sweat shirt and a colored scarf underneath her black track jacket.
Lori has this habit of wearing her coat open wide even when it's freezing out, showing off her ample bosom.
He was then taken into the defendants' cage on a stretcher, wearing sunglasses and covered by a green blanket. The Sun
The visiting pack were in awesome form, consistently making ground at the edges of the rucks and gradually wearing down the home eight, who by the end resembled a bunch of bedraggled and punch-drunk boxers.
Can you imagine getting through a whole summer without wearing stripes? Times, Sunday Times
Imagine them standing before you wearing a Halloween party mask.
Steel sections are being lifted by cranes to the top of the glass pyramid, where workers wearing safety harnesses bolt them together. The Sun
The Marlins claim they won't deal the N.L.'s home run leader, Mike Lowell, but we'll believe it only if he's still wearing teal on August 1.
Why, he asks, does wearing the swastika attract widespread scorn, while no one blinks at the person wearing a hammer and sickle on his baseball cap?
And if I have to sit wearing a swimming cap covered in electrodes to show willing, OK, so I will.
What is it with this ridiculous fashion at the moment for wearing loose sandals or flip-flops?
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The MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley was heckled by a gang of swearing, shell-suited neds.
Wearing oven gloves, remove the tin from the oven and set on a heatproof surface. The Sun
A great many women have gone on record saying that they find him utterly adorable and wouldn't, as the saying goes, kick him out of bed, whether he turned up for the event wearing boxer shorts or a flowing beribboned peignoir.
Perhaps to the disappointment of the L.A Galaxy star's legion of female fans, the 36-year-old did not arrive wearing just a pair of briefs - but covered up in a casual combination of stonewash jeans and chunky, cream cardigan. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph
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.
He was wearing blue jeans, a white shirt and leather jacket. The Sun
Buy yourself the swankiest, most outrageous, most indulgent party outfit you can lay your hands on—such as Dolce & Gabbana lace bustier gown £2,690, Net-a-Porter —and go to the party safe in the knowledge that you will be wearing the most amazing outfit there. The Perfect Party Outfit
You're eating lunch in the cafeteria, wearing your scrubs, your high-tech stethoscope around your neck, a hemostat clipped onto you somewhere, tourniquets tied onto it. Excerpt: Never Change by Elizabeth Berg
Recently some savvier over-40s have been wearing them too. Times, Sunday Times
It has also been boosted by the popularity of trainers and trend for wearing training kit outside the gym. The Sun
The trinkets they were wearing around their necks and wrists gave off a glimmer in the dim light - the sky had turned into a mass of sullen grey threatening a persistent downpour.
While skintight leather leggings have been en vogue for a while, fashion editors and stylists are now wearing looser, tailored styles. Times, Sunday Times
The sudden compression of air as the rammer thrust with the fleece could explode the residues of unburnt powder that was caked to the breech walls, so a gunner, wearing a leather thumbstall, pressed his thumb over the vent to stop the airflow. Sharpe's Waterloo
It's a day where people celebrate by drinking the worst-tasting beer they can find, wearing ratty blue singlet tops with Australian flags as a cape, eating burnt "snags" from the "barbie" and listening to the Triple J Hottest 100 countdown on the radio from the plush confines of a deck chair placed in a kiddie's wading pool. A List For Australia Day
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.
She's wearing ankle boots adorned with bells. Times, Sunday Times
There was even an ongoing carnival and lots of gangs of women on hen dos, wearing rubbish outfits (and stupid deeley-bopper things on their heads), with even more rubbish shoes.
There is a Tiffany scarf, a gift from its designer, and an opaline pear drop necklace of Cabouchon stones with a photograph of Connolly wearing it.
But the brat pack ego that buoyed him through the 1990s is wearing thin. Times, Sunday Times
It's also shaped like a bra so it's easier to get on and off - I hook the eyelets while wearing it backwards and then shift the bra around to get my arms through it.
'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
As soon as someone spots a gaijin playing, they'll join in and kick your butt into the middle of next Tuesday with a secret character wearing a nappy.
Co-Ed's first sub-unit, 5dolls, is busy preparing for their upcoming debut, but they took the time out of their schedule to greet everyone for the Lunar New Year wearing hanboks.
Seven months earlier my friend could be seen on campus wearing blue jeans and a shirt that said dumb things.
Everyone around is wearing colourful sweaters, cardigans and pullovers.
Many of the targets were basic silhouettes, though others were figures wearing traditional Arab head scarves, called kaffiyeh, and holding rocket-propelled grenades. Latest Headlines - ABC 7 News
This approach involves wearing unbifurcated clothing - such as Scottish or Irish kilts, Greek fustanellas, or the robes, caftans, or sarongs of other countries - as an expression of one's ethnic pride or in connection with ethnic celebrations or activities.
She was wearing only dark green breeches, belted around her waist and fastened just above the knees by gold clasps.
Since they are wearing bug repellent they only have a very small few spots on their body that is left undefended and ripe for the picking, and these sweet spots can sometimes be pretty hard to get at.
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.
Anyone wearing high-heeled shoes would find herself punching holes in the floorboard.
April 8th, 2010 8: 25 am ET another republican wearing the white sheet I was going to visit virginia but I am not going to go now your lost my gain hillbillies Apology not accepted, lawmaker says of McDonnell
The mayor was wearing his chain of office.
She is wearing overalls, which is quite different than the fancy blue satin dress the town last saw her in.
Elsewhere, another such ‘baby,’ this one with four tentacles, lies on its back, wiggling his creepy appendages at an individual wearing a cloak and a bizarre sculpturesque mound atop his head.
He's been wearing three-piece tweeds, looking both dandyish and ultra-modern. Fashion Highlights From 2011
He stood there, as calm as ever, wearing only his neat black trousers and his scuffed boots, a few tendrils of plum-coloured hair tracing a colourful pattern against the smooth monotony of his skin.
Cynthia arrived, wearing a pair of blue oven mitts and carrying a large stew pot.
I was wearing my tracksuit bottoms and a hoodie and just went to see what it was like. The Sun
We have padded cycling shorts - like wearing a nappy. The Sun
If Mark's wearing a suit, that'll be a compliment to you!
Fans will revel in the snappy one-liners, the latex effects, the swearing and what sci-figeeks everywhere will be calling 'intertextuality'. Times, Sunday Times
Today he was wearing a dark jacket with light flannels pressed to knife-edged sharpness. DOUBTFUL MOTIVES
When she had approached near, I filled the main-topsail, and continued to yaw the ship, while she continued to come down, wearing occasionally to prevent her passing under our stern. The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876
She was wearing a cape over her dress.
Also, is wearing a night cream essential as you get older? Times, Sunday Times
He is momentously disorganized, and is thus kept somewhat together -- and wearing pants -- thanks to the dutiful efforts of his friends and wife. MIND MELD: The Future of Star Wars
The bride is wearing a wedding dress made of lace.
For all I know, chicken dollhouse is at the ATM wearing a saliva hammock. MYANMAR GOVT NO RIKEY LAMBO
The proper external conduct of the body - such as the wearing of the robe neatly, good deportment, downcast eyes, and observation of good behaviour - is frequently seen as evidence for a state of virtue.
A mere chit of a girl, the daughter of her maid servant, who was wearing her daughters’ hand me downs had the audacity to talk back?
I would wager that when our defence minister made fun of you, Elsie, he was wearing a boring black or blue suit and a sedate tie.
The image he himself cultivated during his presidency, and which appears in official portraits and on Malian currency of the period, always shows him wearing a Malian kaftan, or boubou.
Harriet slouched until she was almost hunchbacked, wearing boy's clothes, unironed and grubby.
This varnish provides a long-lasting and hard-wearing gloss finish.
The man looked just like my boyfriend and was wearing the same clothes. The Sun
Before he had a chance to die, he spent his remaining years wearing dorky naval hats and creating new rules for his organization.
Anyone found wearing a paperclip was liable to immediate arrest. Times, Sunday Times
The suspect is described as a 30-year old black male, 5ft 6ins tall, wearing a grey beanie hat, dark quilted flat jacket, black gloves, dark jeans and white trainers.
He is the rock star in all but name, wearing the same lank mane and trademark grungy threads.
High on the chalk Downs there was no escape from the elements and within seconds ladies wearing light Summer clothing were thoroughly soaked.
I was always wearing costumes for parties when they were little and that kind of thing. The Sun
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.
Sitting in the lobby of Taj Coromandel and sipping a rich brew of cappuccino, pony-tailed and wearing sunburnt, athletic skin of a western beach boy, Nadaka seems far removed from the austerity of Auroville.
Tommy is wearing a baseball cap, a singlet and combat shorts, revealing several tattoos.
Oh to be a Modern Urbanist - this is the kind of person who'll probably wearing the Levi's / Philips clobber.
He was wearing a black jacket with white reflection marks, dark blue jeans and trainers.
Nadler turned out to be about my height, trimly built, clean-shaven, and wearing a gray glen plaid suit and a striped tie. HOPE TO DIE
Tissue in his lower left lung was dying, and septic emboli were wearing holes in his lungs and collecting in his kidneys. SUPERBUG
He is also wearing glasses that in the mirror reflect light so it appears that he cannot see his eyes.
He was wearing a distinctive yellow tabard, a yellow hard hat and blue jeans.
Toss in a few bowling trophies, dudes in bathrobes and women wearing Valkyrie horns, red pageboy cuts, and tight-fitting purple jumpsuits and hairnets, and you might have a sense of this homage to the 1998 Coen brothers' cult comedy, "The Big Lebowski. Paying Homage to the Dude
They had a habit for wearing breeches under their dresses for such little rides like these.
I have gone along with your idea and gone onstage wearing same, to be stripped off by a colonel. Times, Sunday Times
That was the day when he finished eagle, birdie, birdie, birdie, eagle, to steal the trophy from Colin Montgomerie, who had turned up wearing his saltire sweater, a champion in waiting.
Wearing a hat is regarded as rather old-fashioned nowadays.
He's got more cheekbone than Snoop, bloodshot and rheumy eyes, and he's wearing a scruffy black overcoat and woolly hat.
Outside, a blond man in his thirties wearing new trainers watched visitors going in and out. Times, Sunday Times
Wearing a mask to accelerate his oxygen intake, he sometimes would be joined by a therapist who worked on his leg, massaging the tissue.
He is described as being aged between 30 and 40 and was wearing jeans, a dark jacket and a peaked cap.
The team files off the bus on game day in a quiet, reserved and orderly fashion, with most players wearing serious expressions as they look down, avoiding any eye contact.
Even though I wasn't wearing my label, a woman in WAAF uniform came up to me and said, `Henry Woolgar? TIME OF THE WOLF
Then he alternated between a trot and a lope, eating up the miles without wearing down the horses. BEAUTIFUL DREAMER
When wearing a new dress or suit it was the custom to place a 'hansel' or small sum of money in the pocket. Irish Blogs
And I second anemoona; a new costume always seems to be preferable to rewearing one. Thoughts on lrp and characters

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