Dungarees is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Dungarees in a sentence
Dungarees meaning
Heavy denim pants or trousers, usually with bib and braces, worn especially as work clothing.
Using Dungarees
- The main meaning on this page is: Heavy denim pants or trousers, usually with bib and braces, worn especially as work clothing.
- In the example corpus, dungarees often appears in combinations such as: and dungarees, denim dungarees, of dungarees.
Context around Dungarees
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 6 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Dungarees
- In this selection, "dungarees" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, denim, wore, look, chatting and looked stand out and add context to how "dungarees" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and denim dungarees and denim and dungarees. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "dungarees" sits close to words such as aadi, aakash and aayush, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with dungarees
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The new-look Dungarees are being more careful with their time. (11 words)
Normally I would wear slacks, but I was really rushed today so I wore dungarees, in navy blue. (18 words)
On Wednesday (August 28), to share heart-melting photos of their children Mia and Thiago donning matching white tops and denim dungarees. (22 words)
And the tradition goes as far back as the early eighties, with Prince William seen sporting green dungarees and striped top, aged two, as he was pictured playing with a football in the gardens of Kensington Palace in 1983. (39 words)
At one point a beaming Meghan was given a pair of dungarees for her son from a local denim designer Tshepo Mohlala, who confirmed on Twitter she had placed the order four weeks earlier. (34 words)
Laverne is warm and relaxed: she’s on her bed at home, wearing glasses, shirt and dungarees, chatting in between sending emails to sort out guests and running orders for future programmes. (32 words)
Example sentences (12)
On Wednesday (August 28), to share heart-melting photos of their children Mia and Thiago donning matching white tops and denim dungarees.
Laverne is warm and relaxed: she’s on her bed at home, wearing glasses, shirt and dungarees, chatting in between sending emails to sort out guests and running orders for future programmes.
The new-look Dungarees are being more careful with their time.
When I was a tot, my mother would go to the community marketplaces in Manila and buy for me some maong which is the Tagalog term for denim and dungarees.
A basic white T-shirt, for example, can be worn with jeans, with a co-ord suit, tucked into a pleated skirt or under a pair of dungarees.
And the tradition goes as far back as the early eighties, with Prince William seen sporting green dungarees and striped top, aged two, as he was pictured playing with a football in the gardens of Kensington Palace in 1983.
At one point a beaming Meghan was given a pair of dungarees for her son from a local denim designer Tshepo Mohlala, who confirmed on Twitter she had placed the order four weeks earlier.
Clothes and accessories were gloriously fashiony, from jumbo-striped knits that looked like ponchos, to suede dungarees, and kaftans that drifted around in artful perfection.
Dame Emma, who lives in Hampstead, north London, wore dungarees, looked tanned as she made victory V symbols with both hands while being filmed at the protesters’ base in Marble Arch.
She mentions the style blog Man Repeller, which began as a celebration of fashion trends commonly thought to repel men: acid-washed harem pants, shoulder pads and dungarees.
She's certainly a fan of H&M, and was recently spotted in the affordable label's heart detail denim dungarees (with this exact Zara tee).
Normally I would wear slacks, but I was really rushed today so I wore dungarees, in navy blue.
Common combinations with dungarees
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and dungarees 3×
- denim dungarees 2×
- of dungarees 2×
- dungarees and 2×
- wore dungarees 2×