How To Use Hand-me-down In A Sentence
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With no money and hand-me-down charity, they still manage to look 100 times more chic and svelte than the rest of us.
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Her lashing tail was half-spotted, half-striped; her clothes overly big and just a little worn and patchy, like hand-me-downs.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Buying second-hand goods and accepting hand-me-downs work for me, too!
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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.
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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.
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While the others were given new clothes and shoes, she was dressed in ill-fitting hand-me-downs and old shoes.
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not too proud to wear hand-me-down clothes
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We don't even have that many hand-me-downs, as we gave most of them away because we didn't expect another baby.
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Every day I will reinvent the dress with layers, accessories and all kinds of accouterments, the majority of which will be vintage, hand-made, or hand-me-down goodies ...
The Uniform Project
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The idea of deserving versus underserving poor is a hand-me-down from the Protestant/English work ethic that has a long history of ignoring the poorest and denigrating them to squalor.
Democrats downplay House retirements
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One boy is tanned and shiny from the water, but most of the rest have gangly, pale, mottled bodies; they are wearing baggy underwear or ill-fitting hand-me-downs.
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His mother was a domestic in Miami Beach, and along with hand-me-downs from the wealthy families she worked for, she brought home tales of the spiritual impoverishment that accompanied their plenty.
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I had a couple more shirts now - hand-me-downs from Ray and Johnny - but I still had the same four pairs of basketball shorts.
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These sentiments are born out of a preboom frugality that relied on hand-me-downs and an ability to fashion new things out of old.
Christian Science Monitor | All Stories
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Like all of his other clothes, these were hand-me-downs.
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At the same time, family and friends with babies, social service agencies, non-profit groups, and support groups can be good sources of hand-me-downs, and can help you meet the needs of your babies.
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Landry - teaming with the Sasha Bruce Youthwork organization, which works with D.C. teenagers - also recently bought 70 jerseys for youth basketball teams that play at that rec center; the teams had been using hand-me-down pinnies from a midnight basketball league.
LaRon Landry on turkeys, D.C. and his injury
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But it isn't exactly a hand-me-down Christmas panto dumbshow either.
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I think a lot of grooms are going to be digging around in their mothers' jewelry boxes for hand-me-down rings," says Carley Romey, editor in chief of weddings website TheKnot.
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Hand-me-down history usually points to mobsters as the primary movers of illegal liquor.
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Hand-me-downs such as cribs, bassinets, strollers, high chairs, and clothes can help save time and money.
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While the others were given new clothes and shoes, she was dressed in ill-fitting hand-me-downs and old shoes.
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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.
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The dinghies on our lake were serviceable, not showy: hand-me-downs with dented motors and countless coats of varnish.
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One of the things—what used to be a black teenager in a dirty Allen Iverson 76ers jersey and a pair of hand-me-down Jordans—feeds on a fake-tanned white guy in a slick black convertible.
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This is why the children of the middle-class intelligentsia are the ones you see at playgroup in the hand-me-down jeans and the bobbly, seen-better-days cardigans.
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I already have all his hand-me-downs like his shirts and TV tray, so I might as well use his battle gear.
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It was back to using my four-fingered, hand-me-down glove.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Dad
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Their clothes looked like hand-me-downs and they shared a common dark hue to their skin and eyes.
LOST SUMMER
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Back when every farm dugout was cleared of snow by mid-December and hand-me-down skates were laced up over hand-me-down boots.
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When a kid gets a pair of Nike sneakers that are new rather than somebody's hand-me-down, that to them is like they've reached nirvana.
A Baby Shower for Moms in Need
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What clothing wasn't handmade was usually hand-me-downs.
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We could never emulate that spread when we had one ‘best’ set of clothes, school togs and the cousin's hand-me-down scruffs we mucked around in the rest of the time.
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The dinghies on our lake were serviceable, not showy: hand-me-downs with dented motors and countless coats of varnish.
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I've had but three shavers in my life, all triple-head rotary models: my dad's hand-me-down corded white one, and two I've owned, one silver and one black.
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The day of the hand-me-downs among family and friends is truly gone with parents opting to buy new baby equipment.
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On this limited budget we opted for hand-me-downs and cloth diapers.
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Juniors like that won't tolerate hand-me-downs or patched knees; they want everything shiny, new, and up-to-date, and they tend to get it without so much as a thank you.
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I'm almost always suspicious of hand-me-down wisdom, and irritated by stock phrases like this.
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Most of the boys wore hand-me-down military shirts from their fathers.
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She has a doctorate in biochemistry from the University of Chicago and works as a researcher for a large drug company outside Princeton, but much like her mother before her, it's a rare day when she speaks in anything but platitudesall those exhausted phrases and hand-me-down ideas that cram the dump sites of contemporary wisdom.
Excerpt: The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster
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Every day I will reinvent the dress with layers, accessories and all kinds of accouterments, the majority of which will be vintage, hand-made, or hand-me-down goodies ...
The Uniform Project
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But unlike used mitts and bats, you can't exactly pass off a broken board or pair of tattered, hole-ridden shoes as a hand-me-down; even the Goodwill and Play It Again Sports have standards.
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Barbara tended to wear her elder sister's hand-me-downs, the skirts turned inside out to get the best use out of them.
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My armoire was a hand-me-down from a friend, and beside it stood my most shameful design items: two rolling plastic drawer towers.
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Hand-me-downs such as cribs, bassinets, strollers, high chairs, and clothes can help save time and money.
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Such fiction may otherwise seem "standard" in its use of all of the hand-me-down practices of traditional narrative, but it's still full of "finely wrought prose, vivid characters, delectable details," as Shriver puts it a few paragraph later.
Book Reviewing
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Their clothes looked like hand-me-downs and they shared a common dark hue to their skin and eyes.
LOST SUMMER
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Twelve children stand in bare feet holding onto rickety chairs, wearing hand-me-down leotards or torn underclothes.
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And Kim had me come right over to her house so she could load me up with all of these hand-me-down baby clothes that had belonged to her kids.
Teed Off
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Dannel Malloy travels usually via a state-owned Lincoln Mercury, a hand-me-down from his predecessor, M.
Fast-Tracking Governors
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Some have labeled this the ‘hand-me-down’ phenomenon, as many of the seniors moving online are recipients of cast-off hardware from their adult children.
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With no money coming in (Andrew likely never received the army pension he was due), the girls wore hand-me-downs from their Milford Haven cousins and Philip grew up learning the value of economizing.
