Sentence examples for pinafore from inspiring English sources

SITTING in a refugee camp outside Batticaloa, in eastern Sri Lanka, Radikhela, a skinny 21-year-old in a pink pinafore, softly describes how her father died.

Curled up on a sofa, Byrne's dressed in a formal ensemble – a navy pinafore dress and a tailored black jacket – that suggests she's come straight from the set of Damages, in which she plays Ellen Parsons, the naïve protégé to Close's scheming legal eagle Patty Hewes.

A group of primary school-age actors have been spotted dressed in 1940s-era clothing, with wool knee-length shorts for the boys and pinafore dresses for the girls.

There were thigh-skimmers at Nicole Fahri, bustles at Betty Jackson (basically a backwards apron) and full-length pinafore styles at Danielle Scutt on dresses that should be worn anywhere but over a hot stove.

Dressed in boots and a navy pinafore dress, with her blond hair scraped back, she means business.

Guinness, a forty-three-year-old with an elfin build, was wearing McQueen: a very short black wool pinafore over a very fitted, very starched white cotton shirt.

Under President Obama, Julia enrolls in a Head Start program at age three, wearing a pinafore, ribbons, and Mary Janes.

Take a look at the black mohair raglan-sleeve coat, the chiffon skirt with lavender lining, and the frolicsome red corduroy children's pinafore with winking-kitty pocket (530 Court Street; $475, $392, $125).

She is wearing a pinafore, pink socks, and white sneakers.

"The little white pinafore over her dress is organza".

A guy in a rainbow-colored top hat and a pinafore was glugging out of a bottle of wine.