SWEATER in a Sentence

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For SWEATER, below is one of 17 sentences:
Yesterday she had seen Fern Mullins in boots and tweed skirt and canary-yellow sweater, fleet and self-possessed.

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 Meanings and Examples of SWEATER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sweater
 n.  knitted garment covering the upper part of the body
Classic Sentence:
1  He belonged there, masculine in reefer and sweater and high-laced boots.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
2  Yesterday she had seen Fern Mullins in boots and tweed skirt and canary-yellow sweater, fleet and self-possessed.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
3  She knitted a sweater for Hugh.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
4  He was in a black sweater and had a hurley stick.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
Example Sentence:
1  Your sweater will shrink if you wash it at too high a temperature.
2  She was wearing dark blue pants and a white sweater.
3  This jacket's too big, even with a sweater underneath.
4  Peter decided on a blue sweater.
5  She had Mickey Mouse or some other cartoon/Disney character on her sweater.
6  I matched the color of my sweater with the color of my shirt.
7  You'd better mend that hole before the whole sweater starts to unravel.
8  Pausing only to pull on a sweater, he ran out of the house.
9  You have your sweater on inside out.
10  You're wearing your sweater inside out.
11  If the sweater has no sleeves, it is generally called a vest.
12  She is good at crochet, especially for sweater.
13  Hard-working even by the standards of big name chief executives, he claimed that his customary garb of a crumpled black sweater saved him wasting time choosing a suit.