Sentence examples for falling socks from inspiring English sources

What Carey calls "the dark strength of the misunderstanding" will persist for more than half the book, because Dial does not have the courage to disenchant this "lovely little boy," with his "perfect little boy legs, falling socks, banged-up shin and expensive sweater made from merino sheep, the face, the father's face, dear Jesus".

When he gets home and she picks up the fallen sock, banging her head, he feels himself weakening.

She died doing what she loved- breaking her back as she reached for a fallen sock because she insisted on carrying huge loads of loose laundry instead of using a basket.

So this morning, I headed over to a friends house where we packed a large van full of equipment and warm clothing - blankets, hand-made woolens, an entire crate full of the finest warm socks from Vermont's Cabot Hosiery, where my neighbor collected donations at the traditional annual fall sock sale.

They're like those garters old men wear, but instead of anchoring your socks to your calves they use the power of your socks falling down to keep your shirt tails from constantly blousing out like Seinfeld.

What if your guiding principle was more concerned with having a good time than not falling asleep with socks on?

Similarly, their attempt at a protest song, We Are the Battery Human, falls flat: socking it to the office-bound with a plunking banjo accompaniment, it has something of the air of that awful 60s folk number about suburbanites living in little boxes made of ticky-tacky, the one Tom Lehrer described as "the most sanctimonious song ever written".

Today, his socks keep falling down, and he tugs at them while he talks.

From the boat, I had hurled my sneakers, with the socks bunched inside, onto the beach, which was a mistake because the socks fell out and landed in the water.

Jeff warns his male friends that when undressing for sex they should take off their socks immediately after their shoes, otherwise they may fall into "the sock gap" and become that silly-looking creature, a man wearing only socks.

Dance till your socks fall off.