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How to use wore in a sentence

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It's no surprise to find that he donated the rugby shirt he wore in jail to the production.
The girl wore a beige fake leather jacket, blue stone-washed jeans and white trainers.
I think the last time I wore a tie was March, and a watch is useless since your cell phone already has the time on it.
Although conservatively dressed, he wore a gold watch chain on his grey waistcoat and designer black leather shoes.
He wore a deep green robe and had the same black abysmal eyes as Mrs. Flockhart.
Mike wore his hat at a jaunty angle and Gordy stuffed his hand in his pants to emulate the great Admiral of the British Fleet.
She arrived at Rufforth airfield on a flight from Heathrow and wore a turquoise suit with matching hat and black accessories for the occasion.
He was so obviously on the rugby team as he was just enormous and always wore a rugby shirt in the union colours.
He applied sandal paste on his forehead and wore the sacred thread across his body and was rigorous in the ablutions before prayers.
The teenager wore a knee length, blood red, halter dress with a low and dipping neck line.
When flying, we wore heavy wool-lined flying gear, and Bernie looked like the Abominable Snowman when suited up.
The gold bangles and thick hoop earrings she wore were the perfect accessories to the outfit.
The waiters and waitresses wore black trousers or skirts and black T-shirts.
The waitresses served sandwiches cut into triangles of white bread, and wore those black and white uniforms.
His face wore an absent expression, as of deep thought, and I became afraid that if his eyes did light upon me he would nevertheless not see me.
He wore his white chambray shirt and purple vest, black chinos, and leather boots.
We wore those stupid bell bottoms, beads around our necks, slept on waterbeds and generally didn't have very much to say for ourselves.
At that time, women also commonly wore a loose black gown with a gold stripe around the waist and at the hem.
The decomposing corpses wore the black pants and belts that fighters wear, although some were barefoot.
She wore a low-cut pink dress and bangle bracelets up both arms, her hair properly poufed.
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Carole first wore the blue dress from chain store Reiss with a black belt to ascot two years ago.
Alice wore a black nylon rain jacket that looked as if it was ill prepared to deal with the coming chill.
Presidents like Teddy Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson wore their aggressiveness as a badge of honor.
I had terrible skin and short hair and wore nothing but cargo pants and dirty T-shirts.
For jazz and Latin dances, she wore a carbon fiber foot with an adjustable heel that let her dance up on her toes.
She wore an apple-green housedress and her graying beehive hairdo was unyielding against the blasts of a chugging air conditioner.
Calvert was a pudgy older guy who wore thick horn-rimmed glasses and personified the lovable nebbish.
She wore a plaid flannel shirt that went down her hips, and no pants.
Their captors wore palm leaves, leopard skins, and magical relics to make themselves immune to bullets.
The second man had black hair, and wore a waistcoat over a white shirt.
They were flawed and beautiful men in circuitous search of redemption, and Newman wore the characters effortlessly.
Other times and places he wore elk antlers instead, or the fibrous horns of a rhino, dancing about the walls of torch-lit caverns with feather and paw, fin and claw.
Walking in the rain toward the cenotaph, I observed that about every other person wore a red paper poppy in the lapel.
Carrillo said the maid described the ghost as a handsome Hispanic man in his 50s who wore a cowboy hat, a brown coat, and jeans.
Most wore an enveloping black abaya or a head scarf over their hair.
On Tuesday afternoon, Gomez wore a bindi out for a public appearance again, this time for an appearance on Ellen.
The bride reportedly wore a custom Chantilly lace mermaid gown by Carolina Herrera.
Kate wore one of her trusty stand-bys, a full-length LK bennet coat, in red, natch, and demure black heels.
The t-shirt that Bella wore in her very first Twillight kissing scene with Edward is now up for auction.
She wore dark, washed-out jeans that complemented her curves.
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She seemed to be in her 40s, and although she wore a chador, her headscarf was a little loose.
Bedouin women wore bright clothes and burqas, the parting of their hair and their kohl-lined eyes left exposed.
He wore a white head scarf, known here as a ghutra, and a robe known as a dishdasha.
Ginos and Ginas typically came from Italian households, wore stylish clothing, and listened to disco-type music.
After their prank was successful, the friends wore goony smiles on their faces for the rest of the day.
They wore suits, casual pants, and sports shirts and generally managed to look like solid citizens rather than gym rats.
The woman wore special orthopedic shoes to try and alleviate her hammertoe.
The reason I always wore my hard pass was because I was in charge partly of White House security.
In 589, the Saxons wore their hair in the Breton fashion at the orders of Fredegund and fought with them as allies against Guntram.
Boys, up until the festival of Liberalia, wore the toga praetexta, which was a toga with a crimson or purple border.
Patricians wore red and orange sandals, senators had brown footwear, consuls had white shoes, and soldiers wore heavy boots.
From the foundation of the city till the reign of the Emperor Gratian, the foot wore cuirasses and helmets.
Other distinguishing characteristics were its calculation of the date of Easter and the style of the tonsure haircut that clerics wore.
William symbolically wore his crown in the ruins of York on Christmas Day 1069, and then proceeded to buy off the Danes.
From his appearance I got the impression he wore his suits a number of times between ironings and didn't even bother to iron his shirts.
And it wasn't his suit that worried the people on the green tram, even though most of the other men wore flowing jellabas.
Your dad wore jorts before you did and he's got the short frayed denim to prove it.
During the Second World War, he frequently wore his uniform as an Air Commodore and as a Colonel of the Hussars.
Rae wore khaki-green. Khaki-green and khaki-brown were his favourite colours, his image.
Never had sleep been more refreshing nor food tasted more savory, and he began already to harden and his face wore a kinglier look.
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Practically everyone in the army wore corduroy knee-breeches, but there the uniformity ended.
The bride wore an ivory and pink silk lehenga skirt, a blouse adorned with Swarovski crystals and an 18-foot-long chiffon veil.
Wu, with close-cropped hair and a lineless face, wore a cardigan and a necktie and looked like a truant from boarding school.
He wore a feather in his hat, doeskin breeches, lisle hose and an iridescent waistcoat.
In Ireland men otherwise wore longish hair, and a shaved head was worn by slaves.
He was dressed in a costly suit made of Frankish cloth with golden threads, and he wore a belt with a costly buckle.
He also exercised a great deal, and at that time wore a great number of clothes to cause himself to perspire.
Chesterton usually wore a cape and a crumpled hat, with a swordstick in hand, and a cigar hanging out of his mouth.
After her death, Belloc wore mourning for the remainder of his life, keeping her room exactly as she had left it.
The meatness of me and the cancer exasperated me and wore me out, so I retreated from my traitorous body.
Prior to the 19th century peers also wore a matching crimson surcoat edged in miniver.
Many mods wore military parkas while driving scooters in order to keep their clothes clean.
One major exception to this rule was Deicide's Glen Benton, who branded an inverted cross on his forehead and wore armor on stage.
In 2011, Madame Tussauds unveiled a wax statue of her draped in the Elie Saab dress she wore at 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards.
The rest of this faction also all had the same thin moustaches, and wore a spike on their helmets, similar to those on Imperial German helmets.
At the 1970 World Cup England wore a third kit with pale blue shirts, shorts and socks against Czechoslovakia.
Tigers first wore numbers on 5 September 1998 against Harlequins at Welford Road.
In their initial period at Knowsley Road, St Helens wore a similar jersey, but the stripes were horizontal, and the colours were blue and grey.
For the 2011 Brazilian Grand Prix, Hamilton wore a special helmet that was a fusion of his post 2011 helmet, and that of Ayrton Senna.
They usually rode without saddles but wore armour and iron helmets and wielded swords, skenes and long spears or lances.
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They usually wore mail and iron helmets and wielded sparth axes, claymores, and sometimes spears or lances.
For ordinary soldiers, their thick hair often served as a helmet, but they sometimes wore simple helmets made from animal hides.
The British officers wore uniforms very similar to those of the Royal Navy.
Canadian officers wore uniforms which were virtually identical in style to those of the British.
But as the village emerged into the full glare of modeldom in the early 1990s, Yu's tolerance for any form a dissent wore thin.
Rhitta Gawr wore a cloak made of men's beards, and was slain by King Arthur after claiming Arthur's beard.
Whilst presiding over the House of Lords, the Lord Chancellor traditionally wore ceremonial black and gold robes.
Anwar Sadat often wore his military uniform, while former president Hosni Mubarak had abandoned this tradition.
He was short, this guy, and wiry, in along, fitted wool coat and fashionable mud-kickers of the kind Clyde wore.
A tiny, upright figure on muleback, she wore a hat of deep red, her auburn hair falling down about her shoulders.
As the 1950s wore on, Britain lost its place as a superpower and could no longer maintain its large Empire.
That evening, Smothers wore a shirt which Maurice had bought for him at the Beatles' Apple Boutique.
The slogan also featured on official Spice Girls merchandise and on some of the outfits the group members wore.
Short and zoftig, she wore muumuus and rose-tinted, oversize glasses, was loud, abrasive, and very funny.
He wore only a thin-bretelled blue undershirt that rucked under his pectoral mass but stretched ceaseless across his myronic flanks.
Unaccustomed to this freedom, the cast found it hard to select the appropriate clothes and wore different attire day by day.
The Boy Scout wore a red neckerchief, the ends clasped with a sliding knot ornament.
All these troops wore distinctive uniform insignia and considered themselves among the elite of the French Army.
He regularly wore a black Mackintosh raincoat, often carrying it over his arm or draped over his shoulders like a cape.
In summer he frequently wore shorts with socks, sock suspenders, and large boots.
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The chariot teams were known by the colours they wore, with the Blues and Greens the most popular.
The use of silk increased, and courtiers of the later Empire wore elaborate silk robes.
From then on, he wore a heavy iron chain cilice around his waist, next to the skin, each Lent as penance, adding extra ounces every year.
The building was manned by up to 120 volunteers who trained on a weekly basis and wore a Royal Air Force style uniform.
Retired Army Working dog Fire wore a replica of the award given to Sasha at the ceremony.
She wore a beaded dress that required many hours of handwork.
She wore an outfit that was much too dressy for the occasion.
By the time high school rolled around, I had become a sullen alternateen who wore a lot of black and was perpetually growing her bangs out.
Where they carried Chanel bags and wore Alaia bandage dresses, Kate wore jeans and a vest top. Her boots were clumpy and her hair unstyled.
On talk shows Mr. Huckabee would hold up his campaign pledges and the bannerlike size 50 pants he wore in his previous life.
In winter the troops wore the grey greatcoat and the bashlyk, a sort of hood protecting the neck and ears.
The bathers they wore looked sort of the same as now, but their hair was really different.
Dagobert had only one customer, an American who wore square, rimless glasses and a beige suit and looked like a Wall Street tycoon.
The rotund man had difficulty belting his pants, and generally wore suspenders to avoid the issue.
She was a doctor's receptionist, and wore a blouse and skirt under her belted mac.
Two years after Katherine Jenkins wore a flower garland, denim cut offs and box-fresh Hunters to Glastonbury 2013, the look refuses to die.
When he arrived in Washington, some people thought of him as a Boy Scout, perhaps because he wore his hair in a crew cut.
On the beach he always wore a straw hat with a red band and a brief pair of leopard print trunks.
Red-haired and freckled, he wore a studded brigantine, high boots, fingerless leather gloves, and a quiver on his back.
One day after corralling a bunch of broomies in a pole corral, I roped a big blue-roan mare that wore a brand.
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He wore a brush cut that looked like static electricity firing up from his pink skull.
He wore black three-quarter cargo pants with that same strange belt, except his had a chain running from that to his cargos.
He wore a great coat in midsummer, being affected with the trembling delirium, and his face was the color of carmine.
His charger wore a blanket of enameled crimson scales and gilded crinet and chamfron, while Lord Tywin himself sported a thick ermine cloak.
To protect our legs we wore over the trousers heavy leather chaparejos, sometimes of bear or buffalo hide.
The black belt fighters wore protective chestpads and headgear like the helmets worn in kendo.
Everyone laughed again, as Zoar removed a piece of wrapped-up, cookielike pastry from a belt-pack he wore.
Well, by morning the little girl was coolsome, but plumb wore down to nothing.
Nichole wore a pair of deerskin gloves because she said she could feel more through them.
The trapper wore deerskins because they were softer than cow leather garments and rustled less than canvas.
Two famous fictional characters who wore deerstalker hats were Sherlock Holmes and Holden Caulfield in J. D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye.
Don't ye remember I wore it to the picnic? an' then it didna suit, an' I put it back in the box.
My great-grandmother wore a brief empire bodice, and close-fitting Directoire skirt made of cream silk with a golden stripe running through it.
In the morning Mr. Logan wore a doeskin box coat with pearl buttons nearly as large as alarm clocks in two rows on it.
The house wore the startled doggy air of having been undeservedly rebuked. I knew the feeling.
He first saw Jutimala at the fair. Although she wore a dokhona, she didn't really look like a Bodo he thought.
He wore a domino, but beneath it could be seen his whiskers, cut after the English fashion, and long and pendent.
He wore an open jacket, with a splotch of tar on the sleeve, a red-and-black check shirt, dungaree trousers, and heavy boots badly worn.
This union exalted him, wore away the rough edges of his character, emotionalized his mental life.
Each one wore a mask or falseface, a tattered blanket over his shoulders, and carried a turtle shell rattle in his hand.
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The dancers wore flashy costumes featuring shiny sequins in many vibrant colors.
He wore a black frock coat and light trousers, his cravat a gray four-in-hand.
Her twins were adorable boy-girl fraternals who wore boy-girl clothes in the same fabric.
In a few minutes Mrs. Athelny appeared. She had taken her hair out of the curling pins and now wore an elaborate fringe.
A giraffe-like man, Gandalfian, nearly ninety, Uncle Leo wore his summer uniform, madras shorts and a polo shirt.
He went gentlemanly dressed in East Virginia style, wore a high-top silk hat, as had lawyer Park, and sported a gold headed walking cane.
Henry II wore jewelled gloves reaching to the elbow, and had a hawk-glove sewn with twelve rubies and fifty-two great orients.
On one occasion he wore the uniform of a British admiral to receive the visiting British ambassador.
His Boer War experience, annotated in the ribbons which he wore, had given him a touch of overlordliness, which now tuned his irritable remarks.
Although initially slow to respond to the raid, the German fighters soon made their presence felt over the port as the day wore on.
These items were often ornamented with quills and bird feathers, and men sometimes wore the scalps of enemies.
Pirates of the early eighteenth century and prior wore much the same clothing as any sailors.
The men wore loose loincloths that did little to conceal penes like pendulums on grandfather clocks.
She entered a state of mourning and wore black for the remainder of her life.
To keep their expensive suits clean and keep warm while riding, mods often wore long army parkas.
It is also known that the Germanic tribes wore perishable organic material, such as leather, and less metal.
Only the aristocracy had the right to cover their heads, and wore a felt hat.
His thumb was said to be so large that he wore his wife's bracelet as a ring for it.
The Frankish infantry wore as much as 70 pounds of armour, including their heavy wooden shields with an iron boss.
He wore a blue cloak and always carried a sword typically of a golden or silver hilt.
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On great feast days, he wore embroidery and jewels on his clothing and shoes.
It also states the Huns used quilted linen, wool, or sometimes iron barding for their horses and also wore quilted coifs and kaftans.
In the primitive times, the Indians lived on fruits and wore clothes made of animal skin, just like the Greeks.
They were dressed in clothing of white and yellow, and one wore a sword at his side and a feather in his hat.
The Maya nobility practised dental modification, and some lords wore encrusted jade in their teeth.
The clothes he wore one day he did not wear again till three or four days later.
From then on, he wore a headpiece that fastened under his chin to hide the injury.
Soon the novelty of all-talking pictures wore off and incidental music began to make a comeback. It was, after all, an added production value.
Most hosts wore fleece hats with coloured cloth tops in full dress, and round caps, with or without peaks, for ordinary duties.
As an example, the Konvoi wore scarlet cherkesskas, white beshmets, and red crowns on their fleece hats.
The Guard Cossacks of His Majesty and the Ataman's Guard Cossacks, both drawn from the Don Host, wore red and light blue coats respectively.
The middle class were known to wear fox, hare and beaver while the less fortunate wore goat, wolf and sheepskin.
Our sailors wore rattan shields to protect their heads so that enemy bullets and arrows could not pierce them.
However at the 2013 conference in Bali, Indonesia, leaders wore a Batik outfit.
However, in some of the Western United States, like California, judges did not always wear robes and instead wore everyday clothing.
Protective masks were introduced after the war, but few workers wore them as they made them uncomfortable in the stifling conditions.
Karl wore a cowboy hat with a rhinestone hatband when he played his country and western gigs.
She wore long dangling earrings faced with mirrors, and white Bermuda shorts rucked back to reveal knees and thighs like waxed maple.
He was clad in a shabby khaki-drill suit and grubby panama and sandshoes, and wore neither socks nor shirt, and was unshaven.
The man on Zeke's side had a scrabbly black beard and wore a dingy baseball cap low over his beady eyes.
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He wore the scragginess of an unshaven face like a lost man in pursuit of some safe harbor.
They wore assorted civilian caps and shapkas and had red armbands over the sleeves of their greatcoats, which were British issue.
When Mum died at ninety she was still as sharp as a tack. Everything else wore out.
And he wore a Sherlock Holmesy kind of cap with a swarm of salmon flies upon it, that to my boyish fancy was more splendid than a crown.
Riding Misanthropy was test of manhood enough for Tim. What if the fellow cleaned his teeth and reamed his nails and wore side-lever whiskers?
Although the day was lightly overcast, Gulliver wore a torn large-brimmed straw hat.
He had on his head a jaunty little straw-hat, and he wore a jacket with brass buttons, and white trousers.
I wore these spots of shine and silver like tilaks, the marks of colour that we Hindus wear on our foreheads as symbols of the divine.
He wore large hose, and a tuck, as it was then called, or rapier, of tremendous length.
She would make a tiny pocket in an undershift. Even boys wore undershifts, though theirs were shorter than the knee-length ones girls wore.
Paul Poiret, the first celebrity couturier, left nothing undesigned, not only what a woman wore but everything she touched.
Bran wore grey breeches and white doublet, his sleeves and collar trimmed with vair.
The Welsh men wore Harrington bomber jackets with a tartan lining while the Antiguans and Northern Irish opted for tartan ties.
His mother wore the trousers, and father, a gentle man who worked in local government, was not ambitious enough for her.
Bernadette was a small wiry girl with a lot of long witchy black hair, and on the first day of school she wore only one sock.
Activists wore armlocks and lay on the runway, where police brought heavy machinery to cut them free.
He wore a beautiful Delhi-style cap of black velvet embroidered with zardozi over which he had draped a cloth that concealed his face.
The singers, male and female, wore blue jeans and long hair and had more zest than talent.
The first man was white, 6ft, and wore a dark balaclava with lighter stitching around the eye and mouth holes.
They wore cream silk dresses with pink dupioni silk sashes and pink ballet slippers.
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We wore green denim uniforms which when wet could be inflated into waterwings and we floated our equipment over to the riverbank.
I wore Italian suits, made in Manchester, and winkle-picker shoes that curled up at the end if you weren't careful.
Kate wore a gold shamrock Cartier brooch pinned to her chest.
Some wore woggles or armbands, others swam independently, and between them they notched up around 850 circuits of the swimming pool.
The driver wore reflector shades, and his hair was buzzed short.
The Alice band crowd spoke posh, as I regarded it then, wore elegant pumps and ate mange tout.
The undercover officer wore a wire to her meeting with the drug dealer.
And she wore the buttons we finally found in the fabric store.
Instead, Santa rode an outrigger, elves wore aloha shirts and a Norfolk Island pine was the traditional Christmas tree.
Two participants of the intervention group wore spectacles with marginal ametropia.
The subjects wore red-blue anaglyphic lenses for all of the tests, except for those involving saccadic and smooth pursuit eye movements.
When he was a student at the University of Missouri in 1986, he wore a red dress, with matching long gloves, white ankle socks and sneakers.
The duchess wore a valuable string of pearls around her neck.
However, he began the season as Liverpool's first choice striker alongside Collymore, only to surrender his place in the first eleven to Robbie Fowler as the season wore on.
She wore a coat made of old cloth from Uzbekistan called a suzani, which was faded black with embroidered red circles and yellow and white zigzags.
Many Bevin Boys suffered taunts as they wore no uniform, and were wrongly assumed by some thoughtless people to be deliberately avoiding military conscription.
The Jester wore his usual fantastic habit, but late accidents had led him to adopt a good cutting falchion, instead of his wooden sword, with a targe to match it.
Before Thorstein left home, he and Asgerd decided to take Arinbjorn's gift, the silk cloak, out of Egil's chest, and Thorstein wore it to the Thing.
I have served Prince Florizel and in my time wore three-pile.
Raven wore a labret at that time set with abalone shell which was formerly very valuable, and it is from him that high-caste people afterward used those.
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To prevent them from reading his mind, he wore a tinfoil hat at all times.
The team wore a special crest on 8 December 2012 in a home league match against Stirling Albion, to commemorate the 140th anniversary of their formation.
It was as though she wore a mask made from toadskins. Her clothes were crocodile skin the color of old tobacco, and she carried a staff of twisted driftwood.
I became aware of the figure of a youth about my own height, and habited in a white kerseymere morning frock, cut in the novel fashion of the one I myself wore at the moment.
Cromwell was sworn in as Lord Protector on 16 December 1653, with a ceremony in which he wore plain black clothing, rather than any monarchical regalia.
Most Parliamentarian generals wore their hair at much the same length as their Royalist counterparts, though Cromwell was something of an exception.
He did not come however. Anne sometimes fancied she discerned him at a distance, but he never came. The anxious interval wore away unproductively.
The hosts, Susanne Bartsch, who wore a gold minidress, and Kenny Kenny, in a one-legged black body stocking, danced. Mr. Musto, unruined, watched from a couch.
Senators wore tunics with broad red stripes, called tunica laticlavia.
They were psychic mediums that wore a horsetail hairstyle. They believed that their long hair acted as cosmic antennae to receive alien communication from beyond.
I had a sad bone-white face, long fingers and toes, a peace sign tattooed on my anklebone, and wore a tie-dye sundress and a dirty white cardigan.
Were it simply that she wore a hat, I would not be upset at all.
They mostly wore the skirts and hats of Paris, and if the scene of the fountain was Arabically oriental the promenade was almost Americanly occidental.
Daisy told the group that in Britain, Girl Guides wore uniforms.
I know it to be the property that the child wore at the time that I missed her, by the oldness of it, and the mending of it. I have not the least doubt about it.
He also wore a woolish hat that he had down almost over his eyes.
She wore a fashionable outfit with matching purse and shoes.
The rock star wore black with outlandish pink and green spiked hair.
Justin Bieber and Zac Efron are among the celebrities who wore a flip.
For now the boys grew whiskers and hung fox pelts from their shoulders and the girlen all wore scarlet skirts and braided ribbons through their hair.
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He wore a red overrobe, a gold underrobe, and somewhere, hidden beneath all the fabric, an antigrav belt which served to keep his body suspended one full unit off the deck.
He wore a magnificent overrobe of iridescent green silk, embroidered with orange feathers and gold starbursts along the hem and sleeves and neckline.
By the 17th century almost all Chinese wore cotton clothing.
One of the men wore his balaclava rolled up as a hat and is described as around 20-years-old with short blond hair and a mark, possibly a mole, on his left cheek.
They carried dragonskin shields and wore matching dragonskin boots.
A great many men had come, but Gyda singled out Olaf, though he was wearing his bad weather clothes, and the other men wore their finest clothing.
But Hunte's defence counsel Peter Cooper pointed out that many scooter and motorbike riders wore balaclavas in December to protect them from the cold.
He decided to wear number 23 instead, citing his admiration of basketball player Michael Jordan, who also wore the number 23 shirt, as the reason behind his decision.
He wore his dolman slung over one shoulder and clasped at his throat with a gold chain, and carried his Hussar's bearskin busby under his right arm.
Usually the kid wore a mean permafrown and stared everyone down.
Every time I laced up my Nikes, they became my badge of honor. That swoosh became a shield I wore to protect my dreams, held inside a chest with lungs that were born tired.
He had a walrus moustache and often wore a straw boater hat.
Cruelly, Lescott was just six games short of Jack Taylor's club record of consecutive appearances from joining the club, set when footballers wore walrus moustaches.
But as the second half wore on, Sunderland piled forward at every opportunity and their relentless pressure looked certain to be rewarded in the closing stages.
The starched pinafore with the wide frills on each shoulder, which she always wore over her grey frock, was removed, and the frock itself changed for her best navy blue serge.
Instead, Hardie wore a plain tweed suit, a red tie and a deerstalker.
Both wore black watch caps and baggy pants, according to police reports.
The Gardes de la Manche were distinguished by a heavily embroidered white and gold cassock which they wore over the blue and red and silver uniform of the Body Guard.
He wore fancy jewelled swords to banquets or ambassadorial receptions.
I looked dizzily, and beheld a wide expanse of ocean, whose waters wore so inky a hue as to bring at once to my mind the Nubian geographer's account of the Mare Tenebrarum.
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Singer David Bowie famously wore a coat worn in the style of Bull.
In contrast, Novak's character wore a white coat when she visited Scottie's apartment, which Head and Hitchcock considered more natural for a blonde to wear.
The suits they wore for this became a sort of uniform for them.
All three premies sported close-cropped haircuts and wore sports jackets.
The Duchess of Cambridge wore black athletic leggings and a windbreaker.
Marjorie recalled her working life under the supervision of Mr Jordan, who she described as a precise man who wore a black jacket, pinstripe trousers and wing collar.
He wore the same kind of wing collars barristers used to wear.
I had warmed under the smiling gaze of this military young woman who wore her small lifeboat hat and smoked her ration of tobacco, though she always refused coffee.
She wore thick white foundation and heavy black eye make-up to zombify her image, and donned a torn black tee shirt, tight leather trousers and maroon Doc Martens.
Usually I wore white crewnecked jumpers, because they were easy. I had a collection of them, but one seemed particularly lucky and I'd put it on that morning.
Known as the Hype, the bandmates created characters for themselves and wore elaborate costumes that prefigured the glam style of the Spiders from Mars.
We turned to see a muscular young man lounging in the door which led into the sitting-room. He wore green corduroy trousers, a duffle coat and an old school tie.
Each wore a rattan shield on his head and held a huge sword in his hand.
A form of projection, he had been told by a psychiatrist at Holloman out in New Mexico, a coarse-handed woman who wore a flight suit and stuck pencils in her hair.
On the long march back to Scotland, the Highland Army wore out its boots and demanded all the boots and shoes of the townspeople of Dumfries as well as money and hospitality.
Mossa scrawled his name, pulled his cheche down over his mouth, and actually smiled.... I wore a blue cheche to filter sand out of the air I was breathing.
She wore a racy dress that was just barely appropriate for the occasion.
He very often wore either an Old Etonian or a Brigade of Guards tie.
The Romans washed, were anointed, and wore a cenatory garment.
The train's leader commonly wore a bell to warn of its approach, since contemporary accounts emphasised the risk packhorse trains presented to others.
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In Africa, the rich dressed in cotton while the poorer wore wool.
A beast, like Calydon's of yore, Boasts headbands never bristler wore.
In their rugby football days and early years as a rugby league club, St Helens wore a vertically striped blue and white jersey with blue shorts and socks.
Such houses were called Schallenwerke, or bellhouses, because while at work the prisoners, always in chains, had bells attached to the iron neck bands they wore.
The series was also notable for Morris Nichols and Nobby Clark bowling so many bouncers that the Indian batsman wore solar topees instead of caps to protect themselves.
Women wore closed shoes of colors such as white, yellow, or green.
We wore hand-me-downs, hand-me-down again and spruced it up to look good. Didn't look secondhanded or nothing when we finished adding the touch to it.
The smile he wore told her he knew she had sexytime thoughts in there too.
He wore a pagdi embroidered with gold and silver thread on his head, a tight-fitting intricately patterned angarkha, and tight pajamas buttoned at the ankles.
Boys, up until the festival of Liberalia, wore the toga praetexta, which was a toga with a crimson or purple border, also worn by magistrates in office.
As time wore on, quadrangular, 'H' or 'E' shaped floor plans became more common, with the H shape coming to fruition during the reign of Henry VII's son and successor.
Jessica hated covering her legs, so she rarely wore anything but shorts.
The phrase Town and Gown is employed to differentiate inhabitants of Cambridge from students at the university, who historically wore academical dress.
Being a light-complexioned woman, she wore light clothes, as most blondes will, and appeared, in preference, in draggled sea-green, or slatternly sky-blue.
We would have been laughed off the street in Philadelphia if we were seen wearing sneaks. In the big city, the young population wore loafers or boots.
Longarm decided the base of her French perfume had to be jasmine. She wore her brown hair severely bunned for a gal with such expensive tastes in stink-pretty.
His grey waistcoat sported pearl buttons, and he wore a stock which set off to admiration a lean and aquiline face which was almost as grey as the rest of him.
He thought it strange that his girlfriend wore shorts in the winter.
Lotus cars wore the badge of the award for a number of years.
In the late 1950s, the discharge of methane gas in the depths of the river caused the water to bubble, and the toxins wore away at boats' propellers.

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