Sentence examples for dungarees from inspiring English sources

"dungarees" is a correct and usable word in written English
It is usually used as a noun to refer to trousers that are made of blue denim, with buttons at the sides. Example sentence: I bought a pair of dungarees for the summer.

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dungarees

noun

Heavy denim pants or overalls, worn especially as work clothing.

  • Helen donned a pair of faded dungarees and grabbed her knapsack before rushing off to school.

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There is a picture of her wearing it with flares, carrying a toddler me in dungarees.

THINK of the word "bluestocking" and you are likely to conjure up something female, formidable and frumpy a dingy corner of feminism, the historical equivalent of dungarees.

He broke off work on the installation to talk to The Economist about his hometown, his family and his art.Mr Andre, who refuses to be photographed, wore blue dungarees and a well lived-in Levi's shirt.

The farm boy had started off, at $25 a week, inspecting navy dungarees, and had moved on eventually to be a travelling rep for Paris Garters ("Not once, but many times", the advert ran, "she had noticed his ungartered socks crumpling down around his shoe tops").

The all-in-one of this summer is that unreconstructed favourite of the Eighties and Nineties – dungarees.

Back in the day, Kylie, Sarah Jessica Parker and, best of all, rapping trio TLC wore their dungarees, or overalls, with pride.

No one could walk around in a pair of dungarees in a bad mood – it would be impossible.

I used to wear them with Kickers and long dungarees, when I was in the army when I was about 19.

The family moved to Chelsea when Zowie was two: a charming vignette in Bowie's biography by Paul Trynka has the child scampering about the house in dungarees and long blond hair, singing made-up songs.

The romcom element of Love & Other Drugs is predictable enough, what with its movie version of a struggling artist (boho loft apartment, paint-spattered dungarees), and a slobbish flatmate, Randall's brother, who looks like a permed Jack Black.

Mike: Please tell me that underneath it all she's wearing a pair of Charlene's dungarees.

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