Sentence examples for worn about from inspiring English sources

The radical feminism of the 1970s has worn about as well as the radical socialism that preceded the Thatcher counter-revolution, which is to say: quite badly.

zōna (sōna, Plaut. Merc. 5, 2, 85 Ritschl), ae, f., = ζώνη, a belt, girdle, zone, worn about the loins by women (cf. cingulum).

Her hair was always worn about an inch off her head, and when she was playing cards she'd run her fingers through it incessantly.

What is the original practice?" "This thing is called a partlet," she says, showing me a cross between a ruff and a bib that was worn about the top of a Tudor dress.

During the post-game ceremonies, which may have featured the sacrifice of the captain and other players on the losing side, these U-shaped objects were worn about the waists of the participants.

"He goes off in a huff to do this, and meanwhile, still annoyed in our umps' room, I just toss the ball into a large box in which there were already a dozen or so spare balls, all worn about the same.

(Campbell wears about four pounds).

O'Toole and other box lacrosse goalies wear about 50 pounds of protective equipment.

Ms. Hoffman's Grandma, for example, wears "about 20 or 30 different items" to make her look 100.

In terms of the linear rate of wear depth, the pre-oxidized alloy wears about 15 times more slowly than the untreated cladding.

We had to wear about 80 layers of clothes; I could hardly lift my arms from the weight of them.