Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: wears
IPA transcription: [w'ɛɹz]
Usage examples
  • "He wears a striped coat," continued Peter.
  • Is it to be a burden to the animal which wears it?
  • Chopin always wears his learning lightly; it does not oppress us.
  • I'd best lie awake and listen how things go as the night wears on.'
  • He that respects himself is safe from others; He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
  • Jenny has a miniature of her brother "Charley" in a locket, which she always wears, and often shows me.
  • "You possibly observed also that wherever she goes she wears about sixty-nine yards of pearl rope upon her person."
  • The oldest woman, or the priest's wife, wears the priest's dress, while the others, dressed as men, drag the plough through the water against the stream.
  • This particular bit of acting was heightened by the fact that even in the coldest weather he wears thin summer clothes, generally acid-worn and more or less disreputable.
  • In order to procure rain the Wagogo sacrifice black fowls, black sheep, and black cattle at the graves of dead ancestors, and the rain-maker wears black clothes during the rainy season.