SOCKS in a Sentence

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I opened up the package of newer needles to do the first sock, which is the one on the left and it looks perfect.

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 Meanings and Examples of SOCKS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
socks
 n.  (plural) a garment for the foot and lower part of the leg, worn inside the shoe
Classic Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
1  The ladies were making uniforms, knitting socks and rolling bandages, and the men were drilling and shooting.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
2  She had knitted socks and baby caps and afghans and mufflers and tatted yards of lace and painted china hair receivers and mustache cups.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  It was a warm morning and Melanie sat on the vine-shaded porch, her mending basket piled high with socks.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVII
4  A large brick-colored Norwegian takes off his shoes, grunts in relief, and props his feet in their thick gray socks against the seat in front of him.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
5  Kennicott drew from the injured leg the thick red "German sock," the innumerous other socks of gray and white wool, then the spiral bandage.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
6  She was not much disturbed when for hours he sat about the living-room in his honest socks.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
7  We have to darn socks, and yet we're not content to think of nothing but socks and darning-cotton.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
8  Jake and Otto had taken off their boots and were rubbing their woollen socks.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIV
9  Then he put on a clean shirt and clean socks, and after he was dressed he kissed her and the little one and took his gun and said he was going out to hunt rabbits.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIV
10  'Don't you worry about me, Mrs. Burden,' he said cheerfully, as he put on a second pair of socks.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIV
11  The next Sunday Mrs. Shimerda came over and brought Jake a pair of socks she had knitted.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVIII
12  I've knet yeh eight pair of socks, Henry, and I've put in all yer best shirts, because I want my boy to be jest as warm and comf'able as anybody in the army.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
13  Don't forgit about the socks and the shirts, child; and I've put a cup of blackberry jam with yer bundle, because I know yeh like it above all things.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
14  Her plump little white legs terminating in white socks and neat shoes with shining buckles, offered a strange contrast to the long shrivelled members of her companion.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
15  Once he had walked, bare-headed, and in his patent-leather shoes and purple silk socks, with Connie down to the gate, talking to her in his well-bred rather haw-haw fashion.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
Example Sentence:
1  She likes to wear woolen socks in winter.
2  She fished out a pair of David's socks for her cold feet.
3  His teachers told him to pull his socks up, or he'd undoubtedly fail his exam.
4  When I was little I used to like sliding on the polished floor in my socks.
5  I put on a new pair of nylon socks.
6  If they want promotion, United have got to pull their socks up.
7  You're going to have to pull your socks up.
8  Good woolen socks are hard to find in the rural market.
9  Please darn the hole in my sock.
10  There is a hole in the toe of my sock.
11  I opened up the package of newer needles to do the first sock, which is the one on the left and it looks perfect.