hand-me-downs in English
One boy is tanned and shiny from the water, but most of the rest have gangly, pale, mottled bodies; they are wearing baggy underwear or ill-fitting hand-me-downs .
Use "hand-me-downs" in a sentence
1. 4 Edward wore Andrew's hand-me-downs.
2. 1 She refused to wear hand-me-downs.
3. 5 I always had to wear my sister's hand-me-downs.
4. 2 She hated having to wear her sister's hand-me-downs.
5. I preferred threadbare hand-me-downs to clothes that exuded boredom from every seam.
6. 17 I got fed up with having to wear my sister's hand-me-downs.
7. 6 I preferred threadbare hand-me-downs to clothes that exuded boredom from every seam.
8. The Cowcatcher’s Northwest Tarrant & Pacific is among the fraternity of short lines dependent on hand-me-downs
9. From 40' hand-me-downs from the predecessor roads to massive new 86' hi-cube auto parts cars, Conrail had aneclectic fleet of Boxcars
10. ‘A mere Chit of a girl, the daughter of her maid servant, who was wearing her daughters’ hand me downs had the audacity to talk back?’ ‘His only family is an unmarried Chit of a girl who is blessed with not much more than an acid tongue and a pretty face…’ ‘If a Chit of …