WARDROBE in a Sentence

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But as she examined her wardrobe she flung her ancient black velvet frock on the floor and raged, "They're disgraceful."

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 Meanings and Examples of WARDROBE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
wardrobe
 n.  tall cabinet, closet, or small room built to hold clothes
Classic Sentence: (30 in 3 pages)
1  It was one of the taxes she had to pay for their prolonged hospitality, and for the dresses and trinkets which occasionally replenished her insufficient wardrobe.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
2  She unlocked the wardrobe, and taking out her jewel-case, looked under the tray for the roll of bills from which she had replenished the purse before going down to dinner.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
3  Instead, she approached her desk, and lighting a taper, tied and sealed the packet; then she opened the wardrobe, drew out a despatch-box, and deposited the letters within it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
4  But as she examined her wardrobe she flung her ancient black velvet frock on the floor and raged, "They're disgraceful."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
5  Miss Moseley, who came into the house to help to do the dress-making, acquired daily accessions of importance from the developments with regard to Miss Ophelia's wardrobe which she had been enabled to make.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
6  He took Tom's trunk, which contained a very neat and abundant wardrobe, to the forecastle, where it was soon surrounded by various hands of the boat.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
7  In his little room, with its door of communication blocked with a wardrobe, his frame of mind remained as uncomfortable as the chair in which he was seated.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII
8  Next, his delight led him gracefully to execute a hop in ballet fashion, so that the wardrobe trembled and a bottle of eau-de-Cologne came crashing to the floor.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
9  It was almost completely dark in the narrow, cramped, low-pitched room, cumbered up with an enormous wardrobe and piles of cardboard boxes and all sorts of frippery and litter.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: VI
10  Willarski, stepping toward him, said something to him in French in an undertone and then went up to a small wardrobe in which Pierre noticed garments such as he had never seen before.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III
11  "Let them have my wardrobe cart," said the countess.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XVI
12  They unloaded the wardrobe cart and sent it to take wounded men from a house two doors off.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XVI
13  Cosette turned towards the wardrobe where her cast-off schoolgirl's clothes were hanging.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT IT IS AN ENGINE OF WAR
14  He had a tolerably complete wardrobe.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN...
15  In addition to this he perceived that the top of a wardrobe and the marble of a commode were covered with empty bottles.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 25 PORTHOS
Example Sentence:
1  In the wardrobe department were rows of costumes.
2  Her wardrobe consists primarily of huge cashmere sweaters and tiny Italian sandals.
3  Maybe he is stashed away in the wardrobe.
4  The wardrobe was too heavy for me to move on my own.
5  Put the wardrobe in the corner opposite the door.
6  She tried to change her dowdy image by buying a new fashionable wardrobe.
7  Then Mary got out a suit of his clothing that had been used only on Sundays during two years -- they were simply called his "other clothes" -- and so by that we know the size of his wardrobe.