- past tense form of wear.
wore
Americanverb
verb
Example Sentences
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The woman wore luxurious clothing and stood confidently, not half-clothed as an object of exploitation like some other colonial-era paintings of Black women.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
Others have embraced it: Hailey Bieber wore the label with pride when she sported a white crop top emblazoned with “nepo baby” in 2023.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
The reality was that I wore them on public transport and on foot in several cities including London, Glasgow and Portsmouth, and nobody batted an eyelid.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
In the new study, researchers analyzed data from 95,559 UK Biobank participants who wore wrist accelerometers for seven consecutive days and nights.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
He wore a huge army jacket that drowned his too-thin frame, and I could tell from his sharp cheekbones and hollow cheeks that he didn’t get enough food.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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