Example Sentences

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She brushed them off her smocklike black dress and headed inside.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 29, 2019

His black hair was overlong and his clothes were so mismatched that it looked deliberate: too short jeans, a shabby, overlarge coat that might have belonged to a grown man, an odd smocklike shirt.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

It was the kind of loose smocklike garment that little children of both sexes wore before they were old enough to work.

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler