Example Sentences

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I look more put together; the effect is roughly the same as if I’d combed my hair or put on a well-ironed shirt.

From Slate • Sep. 20, 2013

Father opened our trunk and got out some clean, well-ironed shirts—some of White Deer’s masterpieces.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep

This time it was the gray waistcoat, the well-ironed shirt and collar, English scarf, and the blackthorn stick which he carried balanced in the hollow of his arm.

From Felix O'Day by Smith, Francis Hopkinson

White, well-ironed, all sheen and sweetness, that linen looks when it leaves our hands; But they little think of the sodden squalor that marks the den where the laundress stands.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 20, 1891 by Various

Several chairs, in a disabled state, found places about the room, and Phillis's clothes-horse stood with open arms, ready to receive the white and well-ironed linen that was destined to hang upon it.

From Aunt Phillis's Cabin Or, Southern Life As It Is by Eastman, Mary H. (Mary Henderson)