wore
Americanverb
verb
Example Sentences
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Ms. Cheever takes a close look at her father through the lens of his fiction in “When All the Men Wore Hats,” which combines memoir and analysis of some of his most noteworthy short stories.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025
With his swept-back hair, impressive jaw and lively eyes — he is still visibly the Computer Who Wore Tennis Shoes — Russell’s Shaw is commanding, and, like many characters here, sometimes hard to figure out.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 16, 2023
Clocking in at a brisk 100 minutes, “James Brown Wore Curlers” is less a biting bourgeois farce or comedy of bad manners than Reza’s most celebrated plays: It feels slight and hardly packs a punch.
From New York Times • Mar. 27, 2023
In 1993, she put out “The Way We Wore: Styles of the 1930s and ’40s and Our World Since Then,” a lavishly illustrated book of the fashions during her Hollywood heyday.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 10, 2022
Wore big glasses and reading all the time.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
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