APRON in a Sentence

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For APRON, below is one of 107 sentences:
Behind Billy's Lunch, the cook, in an apron which must long ago have been white, smoked a pipe and spat at the pest of sticky flies.

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 Meanings and Examples of APRON
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
apron
 n.  an article of dress, of cloth or other stuff, worn on the fore part of the body, to keep the clothes clean
Classic Sentence: (104 in 7 pages)
1  On the front steps stood two women in black and behind them a large yellow woman with her hands under her apron and her white teeth showing in a wide smile.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
2  That meant four mornings a week in the sweltering, stinking hospital with her hair tied up in a towel and a hot apron covering her from neck to feet.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
3  Now, put on your apron and trot over to Dr. Meade.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
4  When noon came, she put off her apron and sneaked away from the hospital while Mrs. Merriwether was busy writing a letter for a gangling, illiterate mountaineer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
5  Put on a clean apron because I want you to go over to the hospital.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
6  Mammy cried silently as she sponged the gaunt bodies, using the remnant of an old apron as a cloth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
7  Mammy straightened up and, raising her apron, dried her streaming eyes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
8  She started to speak, but Mammy shook her head vehemently and raising her apron dabbed at her red eyes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
9  In her apron was a pile of silver tableware.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
10  Finally, Mammy, coming down the front stairs, her apron rumpled and spotted, her head rag awry, saw him and scowled.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER L
11  She had changed to her best Sunday black and her apron and head rag were fresh and crisp.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER L
12  The negroes fled, the luckless Lou wailing into her apron.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
13  A man in an apron spotted with dry blood was hoisting out a hard slab of meat.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
14  Behind Billy's Lunch, the cook, in an apron which must long ago have been white, smoked a pipe and spat at the pest of sticky flies.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
15  If she hadn't time to dress, she merely flung off her apron and shot out of the kitchen door.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: X
Example Sentence:
1  Her apron was speckled with oil.
2  Jean-Marie, a middle-aged charmer who prefers to work minus a white apron, could not recall a Rene in the family.
3  At home, my apron is coated with food remains within minutes of starting to cook.