Sentence examples for Raiment from inspiring English sources

As a poet once said, "promises of payment/Are neither food nor raiment".In many macroeconomic models, therefore, insolvencies cannot occur.

Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

In accordance with the church calendar, they were expecting to spend the day commemorating the moment in the New Testament when Jesus is said to have appeared before three followers with "his face shining like the sun and his raiment white as the light".

And why take ye thought for raiment?

They were expected to wear "goodly raiment".

The statue was also clad in costly raiment, bathed, and escorted to bed in the bedchamber of the god, often on top of the temple tower, or ziggurat.

The slender, fitted suits with narrow shoulders Simons designed in the mid-1990s wenormouslyusly influential, as was his co-opting of sportswear, and the raiment of popular youth movements.

The Mr Freedom-inspired striped suiting, hodgepodge patchwork denim and billowing chiffon was inoffensive enough but it felt somewhat disingenuous to ally raiments of sixties anti-capitalism with one of the biggest corporations on the New York calendar.

The Young King is dismayed to discover that his subjects have toiled severely — and even died — in order to manufacture his golden raiments, yet when he tries to assume a humbler guise the kingdom revolts against him.

Cecil and Juliana Harkness swept into the kitchen like Kennedys, all smiles and tailored dark raiments.

I'd already started suiting up in the raiments of patient understander.