Wondering how to use Petticoats in a sentence? Below are 7 example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning .
Petticoats meaning
plural of petticoat
Using Petticoats
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of petticoat
Context around Petticoats
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 4 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Petticoats
- In this selection, "petticoats" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, dreamboats, stiff, bag, cute and remarkable stand out and add context to how "petticoats" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include as dreamboats petticoats is a and flour bag petticoats. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "petticoats" sits close to words such as aad, aadhar and aaro, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with petticoats
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
More Than Petticoats: remarkable Georgia women. (6 words)
Beneath the skirts were steel hoops and petticoats to make the skirt rounder. (13 words)
Today, petticoats are typically worn to add fullness to skirts in the Gothic and Lolita subcultures. (16 words)
Soldiers cut up their shirts to make the white stripes; scarlet material to form the red was secured from red flannel petticoats of officers' wives, while material for the blue union was secured from Capt. Abraham Swartwout's blue cloth coat. (41 words)
Something else that was the same in the bygone days of both Manitoba and P.E.I. was underwear made out of flour bags — Gulak grew up wearing flour bag petticoats. (31 words)
He's had leading roles in musicals such as Dreamboats & Petticoats, is a theatrical agent and has been a regular at his local Gordon Craig Theatre in Stevenage. (28 words)
Example sentences (7)
He's had leading roles in musicals such as Dreamboats & Petticoats, is a theatrical agent and has been a regular at his local Gordon Craig Theatre in Stevenage.
If we could, we would have all looked like Brigitte Bardot or Claudia Cardinale, with their tiny waists, stiff petticoats, cute expressions and pink lipstick.
Something else that was the same in the bygone days of both Manitoba and P.E.I. was underwear made out of flour bags — Gulak grew up wearing flour bag petticoats.
Beneath the skirts were steel hoops and petticoats to make the skirt rounder.
More Than Petticoats: remarkable Georgia women.
Soldiers cut up their shirts to make the white stripes; scarlet material to form the red was secured from red flannel petticoats of officers' wives, while material for the blue union was secured from Capt. Abraham Swartwout's blue cloth coat.
Today, petticoats are typically worn to add fullness to skirts in the Gothic and Lolita subcultures.