Sentence examples for precious clothes from inspiring English sources

Eventually, she would like to move her work space from her living room and into a storefront, although she is worried about leaving precious clothes — wedding dresses, prized vintage pieces, shirts from Dad's closet — out of her sight.

His interest in clothes was also personal: his brother Antonio was an embroiderer who may have supplied him with costumes and samples to paint from, and Veronese himself, according to one biographer, was something of a dandy who "wore precious clothes and velvet shoes".

Precious's clothes could have taken her from a ladies' lunch to the opera.

When Angel, who was born in 1972, left home to attend law school (she is now a tax lawyer living in Virginia), she suggested that Jack begin selling some of Precious's clothes, which numbered in the thousands.

They carry their most precious possessions – clothes, pots, chickens, a piglet – all they were able to gather in a moment of panic as the water rose.

No doubt they will also admire Rio's beautiful beaches and the beachgoers who waste "very few of the Earth's precious resources on clothes", as P.J. O'Rourke once put it.Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has a hard-earned reputation for flakiness.

Shown in an old library with the books in cages around the walls like precious treasures, these clothes in firebird colors were drawn with a compass curve for a shoulder cape or jodhpur pants, or with a ruler for a slim dress.

Plus, no one likes a dude who is precious with their clothes.

If you have space under your bed, you can purchase fabric drawers and place them under your bed to use it for clothes, bedding cloths, precious junks, collections and so on.

Here's what really gets my goat: When did people start getting precious-sounding about clothes, as though they were handling the Dead Sea Scrolls and not an ugly vest?

THERE'S a reason some people spend precious weekend hours washing clothes: the swishing, dripping and tumbling rhythms of the laundry room can be oddly soothing and relaxing.