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How to use clothes in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Clothes means items of clothing; apparel. Example: “She had a fit and threw all of his clothes out through the window.”

Examples of clothes by meaning

nounItems of clothing; apparel.

  • suit of clothes.
  • Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 6, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC

More sentences with clothes

  • She had a fit and threw all of his clothes out through the window.From the entry fit
  • I was hanging clothes in the garden and I overheard the neighbours talking about Sheila's pregnancy.From the entry overhear
  • I went out in the rain and now my clothes are all wet.From the entry wet
  • As the altitude increases, the temperature gets lower, so remember to bring warm clothes to the mountains.From the entry altitude
  • I put the clothes away so as to neaten the room.From the entry put away
  • He stuffed his clothes into the closet and shut the door.From the entry stuff
  • They wear conventional clothes, eat conventional food, and keep conventional hours.From the entry conventional
  • Please take your clothes off so that I can examine you.From the entry off
  • Those perverts were trying to spy on us while we changed clothes!From the entry pervert
  • Your gym clothes are rank, bro – when'd you last wash 'em?From the entry rank
  • The clothes smelled whiffy after being left in the damp laundry room.From the entry whiffy
  • If you're looking for cheap clothes, there's a discount clothier around the corner.From the entry discount
  • After walking home in the driving rain, his clothes were saturated.From the entry saturate
  • Clothes like these are too babyish for a child his age.From the entry babyish
  • He stood there, attired in his best clothes, waiting for applause.From the entry attire
  • As soon as she got home, she pulled off her clothes.From the entry pull off
  • I can't see the educational value of going on a field trip to the clothes factory.From the entry educational
  • At the spring sale, everyone zeroed in on the bargain clothes.From the entry zero in
  • I lifted up the pile of clothes, and underneath, on the floor, was a dark red stain.From the entry underneath
  • We used to dress up in our grandparents' old clothes and play pretend.From the entry pretend
  • Over the weekend he spent some time getting rid of the clothes he no longer wears.From the entry get rid of
  • She took off all her clothes and went skinny dipping in the river.From the entry skinny dipping
  • He dropped the bucket and got paint all over the floor and his clothes.From the entry all over
  • If you go out and play and get your clothes dirty, I'll have your guts for garters!From the entry have someone's guts for garters
  • Frank was colorblind and had sewn small labels into his clothes to help him pick matching combinations.From the entry colorblind
  • With her black clothes and dyed hair, Melanie looked very goth compared to her classmates.From the entry goth
  • The crowd had to run away from the burning structure with only the clothes on their backs.From the entry run away
  • When my older brother grows out of his clothes, he hands them down to me.From the entry hand down
  • I'm soaking wet. I need to get into some dry clothes.From the entry get into
  • Washing light laundry with dark may cause your clothes to discolor.From the entry discolor
  • I give my old clothes to charity when I've grown out of them.From the entry grow out of
  • She didn't like his clothes or grammar and pitched a snit fit.From the entry snit fit
  • He made two piles of clothes even steven and let me pick which one I wanted.From the entry even steven
  • The wornness of the old man's clothes testified to his poverty.From the entry wornness
  • He heard a voice and looked round to see a man wearing dark clothes.From the entry look round
  • I donated the clothes my son outgrew to help children in need.From the entry in need
  • I was jest a little child but I knowed I oughten to go without my clothes.From the entry oughten
  • He heard a voice and looked around to see a man wearing dark clothes.From the entry look around

Meaning of clothes

  1. noun Items of clothing; apparel.
  2. noun The covering of a bed; bedclothes.
  3. noun Laundry (hung on a clothesline).

Full definition of clothes

Questions about clothes in a sentence

How do you use clothes in a sentence?
Clothes is used as a noun. For example: “She had a fit and threw all of his clothes out through the window.”
What is a short sentence with clothes?
“suit of clothes.”
What does clothes mean?
Clothes means items of clothing; apparel.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: clothes (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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