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How to use the word wearing in a Sentence? Page #28

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If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them.

– Sue Grafton

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Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die and do not outlive yourself.

– George Bernard Shaw

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If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one

– Abraham Lincoln

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Skiing consists of wearing 3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink.

– P. J. O'Rourke

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Mike Look, we're gonna spend half the night driving around the Hills looking for this one party and you're going to say it sucks and we're all gonna leave and then we're gonna go look for this other party. But all the parties and all the bars, they all suck. I spend half the night talking to some girl who's looking around the room to see if there's somebody else who's more important she should be talking to. And it's like I'm supposed to be all happy 'cause she's wearing a backpack, you know

– Swingers

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In the 1940s a survey listed the top seven discipline problems in public schools talking, chewing gum, making noise, running in the halls, getting out of turn in line, wearing improper clothes, not putting paper in wastebaskets. A 1980s survey lists these top seven drug abuse, alcohol abuse, pregnancy, suicide, rape, robbery, assault. (Arson, gang warfare and venereal disease are also-rans.)

– George Will

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If it helps to make people think a little bit more what those ideals are, then I'll keep wearing this uniform.

– Barbara Adams

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I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.

– Tony Bennet

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Half the world does not know the joys of wearing cotton underwear. (promoting US exports, as quoted in Time)

– Phil Gramm

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Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.

– Oprah Winfrey

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I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out.

– Steven Wright

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