How to use "clothes" in a sentence

My clothes felt heavy in the water

A short man in strange black clothes opened a secret door on the top of the ship

Their clothes looked thin and comfortable.

He had his best clothes on, and in one hand he had a white hat.

There were ten of them, and they had red diamonds on their clothes

Then, when it got light, an American plane came and used fire-throwers on the enemy - and almost on us! Suddenly the trees were on fire, and men were running out of the jungle with burned skin and clothes.

I want you to come with us today, and I want you to wear your army clothes.'

And one day I dressed in my best clothes and got the bus to Mobile, and I went to Jenny's Mom's house.

Her clothes were all old and dirty: a long black jacket down to her knees, petticoats, stockings, a black skirt, and boots

Annie worked when possible, selling flowers or making clothes

He was 1.70m tall, about 28 years old, and wore a deerstalker hat and dark clothes.

Her clothes were old and dirty

There were also three plain-clothes detectives on the streets that night

Why had the Ripper burnt them? When Abbeline discovered only one small piece of candle in the room, he thought that the killer had made a fire with the clothes because he needed more light to do his terrible work.

In the case of Elizabeth Stride, from the descriptions by Constable Smith and Israel Schwartz we have a man between 28 - 30 years old, 1.65m to 1.70m tall, wearing dark clothes and a hat with a peak, or perhaps a deerstalker

He wore dark clothes and a hat with one peak, or two like a deerstalker

One evening in October 1815, an hour before sunset, a man with a long beard and dusty, torn clothes walked into the town of Digne

Her clothes were old and dirty, and she wore a tight, plain cap over her beautiful blonde hair.

'Does the child have enough clothes?' the man asked.

'She has some beautiful clothes,' Fantine replied

One month later, Thenardier was short of money again, so he took Cosette's beautiful silk clothes to Paris and sold them for sixty francs

They made her get up before dawn every day and do all the dirty jobs around the house, while Eponine and Azelma wore pretty clothes and played with dolls

The Thenardiers wrote her a frightening letter in which they told her that Cosette had no clothes, and that they needed ten francs immediately to buy her a new dress

The Thenardiers, however, were very angry - they had wanted money, not clothes

She could tell from his clothes that he probably had no money.

They were two healthy girls, the old man noticed, dressed in warm clothes and with pink, healthy cheeks

When Cosette came downstairs, the old man gave her new clothes to wear: a black woollen dress, black stockings, scarf and shoes

The beggar was still there, in the same position, wearing the same clothes

He rarely bought new clothes, but he was proud of the fact that he had never been in debt

When girls looked at him and smiled, he thought they were laughing at his old clothes

The next day, Marius returned to the Luxembourg Gardens wearing his best clothes

His dark clothes were almost invisible in the shadows, and his face shone softly in the fading light

The poor condition of his clothes could not be seen in the half-darkness of the room

Buy yourself some new clothes.'

Marius bent down quickly, and saw that it was indeed that unhappy girl, dressed in a man's clothes.

A terrible heap of dead bodies lay not far away, among them the blood-stained body of a young girl in man's clothes - Eponine.

He walked blindly downwards in this way for a long time, his clothes wet with the blood from Marius's wound, the faint whisper of the young man's breath in his ear

He looked up and saw a man dressed in old clothes standing beside him

He was wearing smart black clothes, and a gold watch chain hung from his jacket pocket.

Little Red Riding Hood took off her clothes and got into bed

I look carefully at my clothes, but they mean nothing

He thinks that with her clothes and her coat on she will be too heavy and that the cold grey water of the loch will pull her down

He tries to swim, but his clothes and his coat are too heavy.

And they are both dirty: their skin, boots and clothes all covered in red sand.

You do what I say, no problem." And Nick looks at him for a moment: "You look okay now: these new clothes aren't bad."

The new clothes are not new, Jake knows: not really

Nick steals clothes from the washing lines on the backstreets

No phone, no tablet, no clothes.

The door of your wardrobe is open, and the clothes inside look like three or four small burglars watching you

I'm going to go close the church, then maybe I can find you that bit of food and some other clothes."

His clothes are wet and his skin frozen

Their clothes are better than ours, their cars and trucks are better

So we used to play tricks with them: put them in people's clothes

Sala and Cham each went into a little room and Sala put on her suit, made a neat pile of her clothes, and carried them out to Zee

Fifteen minutes later, Sala was dressed in her own clothes again, and was sitting next to Cham near the changing rooms

It was pouring with rain again, and his hair and clothes were wet when he arrived.

With my straight hair and badly-fitting clothes I looked like an awkward schoolgirl.

I wish I was wearing a lot of make-up and had expensive clothes.'

'All her evening clothes are here

Mr de Winter was always buying clothes for her, beautiful clothes.'

Only Maxim was wearing evening clothes.

Somehow, the act of giving away his clothes would be even sadder and more final than watching his casket being lowered into the ground.

His clothes weren't the only things that she had kept: His entire room was exactly as he had left it

She would start by spending Thursday afternoon here, boxing the clothes and toys and posters.

She had at least enough time to make a start, box up the boy's clothes, if nothing else.

She stood indecisively in the center of the small kitchen, trying to find the willpower to go to Danny's room and box his clothes, as she had planned

It contained only clothes

Only clothes.

"You can go straight from office work to scuba diving without changing clothes."

Inside the closet, shirts and jeans began to swing wildly on the pole from which they hung, and some clothes fell to the floor.

The closet doors were open, and all the clothes inside appeared to have been thrown on the floor

You always spent your money on fast cars, good clothes

He quickly stripped off his own clothes and joined her on the bed, took her in his arms.

"I need a change of clothes, at least a toothbrush and a few other things

He wished that they weren't wearing such dark clothes

We'll need good, insulated outdoor clothes

At a roadside restaurant, they changed clothes in the restrooms

In room 918, the Network operatives discovered a cheap suitcase, dirty clothes, toothbrushes, various toiletry items - and eleven maps in a leatherette case, which Elliot and Tina, in their haste and weariness, evidently had overlooked.

He walked out of the lab, went to his quarters, dressed in outdoor clothes, and left the complex

The store buys and sells clothes

So he told the girl to put on these old clothes and go and hide the suitcase in the woods

It was some time before I could get to my feet again and put on some dry clothes

I saw an empty boat, very small and far away, moving down the river and, taking off most of my wet clothes, I swam to it

Sunday clothes could be seen inside quickly fixing maps of Surrey to the shop window.

As I came nearer, I saw that he was dressed in clothes as dusty and dirty as my own

Further down the road, a woman in torn clothes was sitting on a doorstep

But then I noticed how ill the people looked and how many of them still wore old and dirty clothes

We made a list of all the clothes we needed

George said he knew everything about the right clothes for a trip

We got a large suitcase for the clothes, and two large hampers for the food and utensils.

I started packing the clothes

It's such a beautiful picture - the river, the trees, the flowers and the people, in their colourful clothes.

He was looking for his clothes

We took our clothes to a laundry woman

The river was so dirty that our clothes collected all the dirt from the water

The river became cleaner, but our clothes became dirtier.

The laundry woman was very surprised to see such dirty clothes

Then, we got out the big bag and got our clothes ready.

Our clothes probably looked a bit old and strange.

At the Alhambra Theatre everyone looked at our clothes and smiled

Her clothes were old, so I gave her some of Laura's white dresses

Eleanor Fairlie was an irritating woman who talked too much and wore expensive clothes

I changed into dry clothes, lit a candle, and wrote down the conversation

He has fine clothes.

"Your clothes are wet