hoopless
- a word derived from hoop.
Example Sentences
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"Nothing whatever to do with the Army," he snapped, and a Prussian-blue opponent was smacked off into an arid and hoopless waste.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 11, 1917 by Various
Objectively, she was a slim, hoopless little woman, with a tendency to be always at the street-door when we opened it.
From Venetian Life by Howells, William Dean
There were to them even more heathenish indications in her hoopless straight skirts: the good little creatures zealously cut and trimmed a dress for her from the very last patterns.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science October, 1877. Vol XX - No. 118 by Various
The women, were in hoopless dresses, and held shawls over their heads in place of bonnets.
From Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life by Knox, Thomas Wallace
She looked doubtfully at him, at the low shanty, the yard that was littered with cord-wood, moldy planks, a hoopless wash-tub.
From Main Street by Lewis, Sinclair
