hand-me-down

How To Use hand-me-down In A Sentence

• With no money and hand-me-down charity, they still manage to look 100 times more chic and svelte than the rest of us.
• Her lashing tail was half-spotted, half-striped; her clothes overly big and just a little worn and patchy, like hand-me-downs.
• The fact that she herself had only one such dress, an organdy hand-me-down from Rockelle that was worn once a week to Sunday school, was disturbing.
• I didn't know at the time that my used textbooks were castoffs and that our science and athletic equipment represented the hand-me-downs from white schools in the district.
• Everything you own is second-hand or hand-me-downs, or given to you as a gift over the recent holidays and will become a recycle to your younger brother once you grow out of it.
• Buying second-hand goods and accepting hand-me-downs work for me, too!
• The jeans you're wearing are hand-me-downs, they stopped making that style six and a half years ago, telling me that you either have an older sibling or some other close relative who's older than you.
• If you are a first-timer or a seasoned pro planning a trip to snowy climes this season, there is plenty to ensure that whether you end up spending your time on the bunny slopes, black runs or with a chocolat chaud and your tail between your legs in the chalet, you can do so in style and splendour rather than in a pair of ill-fitting hand-me-down salopettes. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
• While the others were given new clothes and shoes, she was dressed in ill-fitting hand-me-downs and old shoes.
• not too proud to wear hand-me-down clothes