Examples of wore

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The chorus was dressed rather modestly while the dancers wore expensive and opulent costumes.
She wore a blue serge gown with a shirt dotted with little blue + red spots.
Patients sat y32 cm from the ionizer and wore a grounded wrist strap to maximize ion flow toward the body.
They wore down the army through guerrilla and mobile warfare, the first two phases in a protracted war.
Although he wore it lightly, he was always a thoughtful man, and time and again his judgement was proved sound.
Men and women carried their swearing as lightly as they wore their cloaks...
Over time, they were unable to avoid widespread accusations of treachery and betrayal, and this wore them down.
Subjects wore a black eye-patch over the non-dominant eye.
The relative decline of the radical press as the 1850s wore on meant that the potential political power of the novel was immense.
Lots of people wore crosses on their clothing in the thirteenth century and while it proclaimed them penitents it did not make them outcasts.
He studied times, places, different types of beggars - almost even the clothes that they wore - to heighten the effect that they created.
They wore patriotic colours, red, white, and blue, and their jackets buttoned at the back, as a daily, practical exercise in fraternal interdependence.
Most members dressed in leotards, tights and ballet shoes or wore leggings and t-shirts with their feet bare.
They were dressed in white and wore garlands that seemed to shine.
The husband wore a white striped dressing gown and was a well-built man.
Then, he wore heavy gold necklaces, pungent aftershave, branded t-shirts and replica jeans.
The sailors wore their wealth conspicuously and clearly enjoyed a strong sense of fraternity.
The child and parent each wore a wireless electret condenser lapel microphone.
Students wore multiple-color, horizontal-striped stockings of various colors and designs.
First, as the emigration season wore on, the landlord and his agents became less generous in their spending on the emigrants.
Both wore white, carried staffs, shaved their heads and kept long beards.
In her coronation at least, she was indeed as much a monarch as her male forbears, but for that she again wore her hair loose.
The actors wore creamcoloured institutional uniforms, an allusion to the clinical nature of the material.
Most wore the loose or baggy jeans and shirts fashionable at the time.
They wore extraordinarily showy garments and adopted distinctive mannerisms.
He wore a tight coat and trousers, and had fastened sticks to his feet to represent the feet of a bird.
Gardening activity was not associated with seropositivity but a non-significant lower seroprevalence was seen in gardeners who always wore gloves.
They studied a group of patients who did not wear the gowns on one day and then wore the gowns on another.
As the crisis wore on, these countries became increasingly afraid that the housing and feeding of refugees would become a permanent responsibility.
The wife of a clothier, she wore spectacles, wrote letters, owned books, and taught children to read.
Their deafness had been diagnosed before the age of 2 years, and all wore hearing aids.
Yearbook pictures demonstrate that students wore a great variety of ties, at least until 1928.
Although most of these wore pendants of imitation human maxillae, four soldiers each had between seven and eleven real human maxillae.
Eighteen of the children wore hearing aids, at least during school hours.
Subjects wore customized headphones that reduced the noise of image acquisition, but still allowed them to hear themselves speak.
The second stanza begins with a restatement of the title of the poem and then describes the clothes "stomps" and "cats" wore.
One participant said that they thought they wore a gown with a whole cut out to expose the breast.
Three quarters of the respondents wore a mask most/all of the time on board, 15 % did so in public places at the travel destination.
Living in a handful of rooms, huddled over a coal fire, seemed less attractive as the twentieth century wore on.
They usually wore the (tribal) shawl and headband.
He wore a fez-a mark of prestige since the early 19th century.
The transmitter for the child's channel was secured in the pocket of a vest that the child wore during the recording session.
As the nineteenth century wore on, banking panics continued to strike on a fairly regular basis.
At the time of our research nobody ever wore warm clothes, no means of cover were known.
She wore her hair and dressed as if to be seen from the side.
They harrassed them, wore them down, and on some occasions helped in bringing about their defeat.
Many professors played a persona, wore a "mask," in their public lectures.
Unfortunately the pads do not appear to have been very acceptable as only 24% of the intervention group wore them regularly.
All observers were pre-presbyopic and wore their habitual refractive correction during testing.
The four th group wore a form-depriving goggle on one eye and a neutral density filter over the fellow eye.
The child wore a wireless microphone, and a video camera was placed near the table holding the play house.
As the nineteenth century wore on, however, the demise of the household economy rendered propertied independence an unmanageably contentious ideal.
They wore tattered clothes and their diets largely comprised potatoes and beans, insufficient in calories, vitamins, and minerals.
As time wore on, however, the displacement of civilians was invested with other meanings.
The parent wore dark glasses (the lenses of which were covered in black cardboard) and a pair of headphones over which music played.
Parents wore dark glasses to prevent cueing the infants.
He wore a robe of red brocade, and a black apron (with a fierce-looking face painted in the centre) was tied to his waist.
Subjects wore headphones during the course of the day, through which they heard, at various intervals, a randomly generated series of bleeps.
The basti wore a festive look that day.
They were drenched in grease, in tatters, wore male clothes, frightful faces, shameless.
The women who wore these garments made no claims to high style.
They say something like the women wore piupiu instead.
My father said none but thieves and persons who were ashamed to shew their faces wore them.
True beauty was a natural beauty, reflecting a woman's inner being rather than the mask she wore.
One wore the mask of a man, another of a woman.
One of the seminoma patients only wore the bands intermittently and was deemed noncompliant.
The pictures were taken against a gray background while the women wore a gray scarf around their necks to conceal any clothing.
Everyone inside had [hair] buns and sprayed temples, wore light make-up.
They had seemed new and exciting initially, but they still wore suits.
If the cyclist wore a tailored jacket with her culottes, both the top and bottom half of the ensemble were masculine.
The officers wore red uniforms with gold and silver stripes on their cuffs and silver plates indicating their rank.
The forest officers wore leather dress shoes and office clothes and carried sugar candies in their pockets.
His dervishes shaved their beards, wore earrings, and listened to music: ibid., 47.
However, as time wore on, this enthusiasm abated, and power devolved to the medical staff as fewer and fewer governors took the time to attend meetings.
Thirty-four cancer outpatients with diverse malignancies wore a prototype fatigue watch monitor for three consecutive 24-h periods and provided fatigue ratings every hour while awake for the 3 days.
We wore our sea rubber high boots.
Subjects wore snugly fitting rubber thimbles on their right thumb and index finger that were used to hold rigid metal tabs in place directly above their fingernails.
Nobles wore elaborately adorned cloaks made of maguey as well as cotton, and decoration was as impor tant as the type of cloth in terms of social distinctions.
The women wore 'wrappers', lose cotton gown flowing from the shoulders to the ankles, with wide gathered collars and elbow length sleeves, often trimmed with lace.
The women wore nose clips and breathed through a respiratory valve.
People were increasingly better informed about social ills as the century wore on and how these could undermine and inhibit individual responsibility and freedom.
The female was at least fifty years old, and also wore shell jewelry, but in lesser quantity than the principal personage.
He wore clean black jeans tucked inside expensive-looking new desert boots.
Both experimenter and caregiver wore headphones playing scrambled versions of the stimuli, which effectively mask the actual stimuli delivered to the infant.
As time wore on, his hostility became more focused.
As time wore on the cabinet appeared to be using the practical difficulties as an excuse to resist the growing pressure for action.
Recovery of the hypertensive response occurred when the spinal anaesthesia wore off.
The parent wore opaque sunglasses to block their view of the images.
We are a nation with men and one of them wore this coat.
Another young man in the wider semicircle wore a baseball hat.
They wore red coats with white facings, black shakoes (tall leather helmets), and were equipped exactly like foot soldiers of the army.
A subclavicular ground was used instead of mastoid or earlobe leads since the subjects wore headphones during the recording.
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