Example Sentences
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It’s a place where people pause to chat up strangers on oak-and-magnolia-draped streets, a place where boutiques sell smocked baby dresses and shirts with phrases such as “Pearls Are Always Appropriate.”
From Slate ● May 4, 2026
Or: a Mexican-style peasant dress, smocked or embroidered.’”
From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2023
Women similarly wore tiny smocked dresses over bloomers, which men in turn wore over ripped jeans.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 14, 2020
The iconic Herrera white shirt is rewritten in a myriad of ways: cropped, ruched, smocked, sleeveless.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 6, 2018
It was as if the Changs had run flat life through a fancy new sewing machine, and seen it emerge smocked.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
