Sentence examples for stockings around from inspiring English sources

Now that South Africa is about to find itself in the center of world soccer, patriotic spirit is rising, with South African flags fluttering from people's homes, stretched like stockings around rear-view mirrors and emblazoned on shirts.

By the kitchen light I could see her in her dressing gown, stockings around her ankles, trudging along the hall and into each room, wringing her hands as she went, muttering back to the ghosts clamoring within her skull.

O'Neill describes Josie as "almost a freak — five feet eleven in her stockings," and weighing "around one hundred and eighty" pounds.

The band, more New Wave than punk, hadn't started yet, and the only thing to look at onstage was the opening band, whose members were packing up their equipment while hypervigilant girls in vampire makeup and torn fish-net stockings washed around them in a human tide that ebbed and flowed on the waves of music crashing through the speakers.

ON Jan . 23 , 2001seven actors in black coats, breeches, buckled shoes and white stockings assembled around a table at StudioEIS in the Dumbo section of Brooklyn to recreate a seminal moment in American history -- the signing of the Constitution in Philadelphia on Sept. 17, 1787 -- for photographs and eventually bronze statues.

In 2003, João Miguel Folgosa walked into the Recife/Guararapes Gilberto Freyre International Airport in Brazil with a ticket to Lisbon in his hand and five nylon stockings wrapped around his abdomen.

Stockings hang around the fireplace.

As the girls go out the door to face this week's challenge, I notice that there's a pair of stockings tied around the inside door handle of their atlas apartment.

For knee-high stockings, measure around the leg just under the kneecap and cut a piece of elastic to match.

Her body was found in 1977 dumped near Lagunitas, naked with a pair of nylon stockings wrapped tightly around her neck.

O'Neill described her as "so oversize for a woman that she is almost a freak -- 5 feet 11 in her stockings and weighs around 180".