How To Use Ill-fitting In A Sentence
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We were lectured by numerous academic doctors, usually wearing scruffy sports jackets or ill-fitting white coats.
Times, Sunday Times
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The cause could be as simple as an ill-fitting seal, or more serious, such as bodywork misalignment.
Times, Sunday Times
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His uniform coat was tan, loose brown suspenders held up ill-fitting trousers, and he, too, was devoid of shoes.
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The effect can be seen in attics under ill-fitting tiled roofs, where the sun's rays are focused through chinks between the tiles.
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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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Women travellers should also avoid ill-fitting bikinis, armpit hair, white strap marks, streaky tans, cellulite, tattoos, body piercing and getting drunk.
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He wore an ill-fitting gray suit, and had long, bushy sideburns that grew into his mustache.
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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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They had dyspepsia and ill-fitting shoes, they bit their nails and worried about their waistlines.
GALILEE
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You could see them in their mud-clogged boots, with ill-fitting greatcoats and oversized rifles, filing off into an opaque horizon.
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Today's applicant to the elite colleges enters a game in which the opportunity for committing a faux pas is just as great as it was fifty years ago, only now the faux pas is on the order of joining the Junior Statesmen of America rather than of sporting ill-fitting khakis.
Confessions of a Prep School College Counselor
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Zero is dressed in a plain white T-shirt and ill-fitting jeans rolled up about six inches.
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A sharp contrast they presented, -- the German, erect, well-poised, plainly a soldier in spite of his ill-fitting clothes; the American, lank and stomachless, yet taller than the other in spite of his bent shoulders.
A Tar-Heel Baron
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It looks great, aside from the usual low-budget stumbles or the occasional oddly-delivered line or ill-fitting costume.
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They were basically condemned to flowing tents and baggy ill-fitting gabardine outfits displayed in middle-class department stores.
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He may not be a great thinker or preach polished sermons; his hands may be rough and his clothes ill-fitting; but if he is a loyal friend and ministers to real spiritual need, he is saint and prophet to those whom he has brothered.
Society Its Origin and Development
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There were soldiers everywhere by now, shabby-looking in peak caps set askew and ill-fitting camouflage.
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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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Their clothes were ill-fitting, their boots new and uncomfortable, they slept in their greatcoats on the bare earth - and it was cold.
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It can be brought on by years of wearing high-heeled or ill-fitting shoes that push the toe bones against the nerve.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dentures had formerly been bought from a professional laboratory, but now ill-fitting ones were ordered from a federal prison.
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He stood perhaps a few inches shorter than me, and while he was clearly in fighting trim—the moaning hoodlum on the pavement a testament to the strength of his blows—the ill-fitting boilersuit made him look somewhat paunchy.
Masked
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And if you like sepia photographs, transfer your existing pictures into ill-fitting frames to allow the nicotine to seep behind the glass.
Times, Sunday Times
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The singer has been spending her free time soaking up the sun in Rio wearing ill-fitting swimwear.
The Sun
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If she spoke rustic Greek instead of bad English, and wore a cestus in place of an ill-fitting corset, you'd swear she was a goddess.
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He showered and climbed into an ill-fitting suit which a Sunni tailor had run up for him in forty-eight hours.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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It is just a pity that its transparent and often ill-fitting commercial ambitions make for a frustratingly inconsistent read.
Times, Sunday Times
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The small man in the ill-fitting suit suddenly grows large and becomes some no-neck union rep on a loading dock exhorting the working stiffs to the cause.
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He sat in front of them, dressed in a plain, ill-fitting suit, never moving, his dusty face masking his age. He kept chewing the inside of his lip a lot, frozen into some personal cocoon of silence.
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Show officials, stewards, judges and workers were in abundance and the hands-on people could easily be recognised by their mucky boots and ill-fitting, handed down bowler hats.
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Kids are gawky and awkward enough in junior high without forcing them to wear skinny ties and ill-fitting jackets while roaming like bison through a cramped gymnasium.
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ill-fitting clothes
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Russia is no longer the land of shapeless shifts and ill-fitting polyester shirts.
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There were soldiers everywhere by now, shabby-looking in peak caps set askew and ill-fitting camouflage.
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Does female emancipation really mean winning the right to dress up in an ill-fitting nurse's costume?
Times, Sunday Times
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Two men in ill-fitting suits took photographs of the window and made notes.
Times, Sunday Times
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His uniform coat was tan, loose brown suspenders held up ill-fitting trousers, and he, too, was devoid of shoes.
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But Mr Frayne complains that ill-fitting windows, a wobbly wall and kitchen units infested with woodlice have made their lives a misery.
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Promise No more blisters and injury caused by ill-fitting shoes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Like many other pastors, he began his pastorate trying to wear the ill-fitting theological armor of his theological professors.
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His wrinkled, ill-fitting grey suit blended in with the grey background.
Times, Sunday Times
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Any obvious causes of mouth irritation such as ill-fitting dentures or dental appliances should be dealt with by a dentist.
Bad Breath
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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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His dirty, ragged clothes were loose and ill-fitting.
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Forget childhood images of ill-fitting shoes, curled up sandwiches and lukewarm tea.
Times, Sunday Times
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They were basically condemned to flowing tents and baggy ill-fitting gabardine outfits displayed in middle-class department stores.
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With this accusation of the misuse of borrowed funds, we recognize the strange and, I think in this context, rather ill-fitting subtext behind Comus' seduction.
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This was negligence pure and simple, confused by an ill-fitting and woolly disguise of nuisance.
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The most common cause of posterior heel bursitis is ill-fitting footwear with a stiff posterior edge that abrades the area of the Achilles tendon insertion.
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Difficulty eating can come from ill-fitting dentures, sore, loose or missing teeth.
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The record further establishes that the skin necrosis and abscess, which did not appear until approximately two months after the accident, were not related to any injury plaintiff sustained in the accident, but rather were caused by an ill-fitting replacement wheelchair.
Fourth Department
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An ill-fitting suit in the wrong colour for you will do no favours even if it is the most expensive in the store.
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They were always immaculate; there was no slopping around in tight, ill-fitting jeans and trainers.
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Donning my penitential grey flannels and Harris Tweed jacket and with my ill-fitting shoes in hand, I stole down the main staircase to the front porch.
The mission song
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According to the unnamed paper, The demonstration took a bizarre turn when twenty-four young people wearing ill-fitting suits and ties lined up on Sixth Avenue, swigging vinegar, syrup of ipecac, and food coloring, and vomited red, white, and green.
Malcolm on the mall (Jack Bog's Blog)
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The draughtiest windows are ill-fitting single-glazed sashes.
Times, Sunday Times
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The newly arrived trainees, outfitted in ill-fitting khaki jumpsuits they called zoot suits, seemed unusual indeed to the people of Sweetwater.
AmericanHeritage.com
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Using modern-day infomercial creativity, the zipper industry alerted people to problems they didn't know they had -- namely "gaposis," gaping holes between ill-fitting buttons and clasps that exposed drafts and prying eyes to the body underneath.
Tove Hermanson: The Secret Sexy Life of Zippers
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However, women who wear ill-fitting shoes are liable to suffer in the long-term with blisters, bunions and joint pains.
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If you wear dentures, be sure to keep them clean and have them adjusted if they are ill-fitting.
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Show officials, stewards, judges and workers were in abundance and the hands-on people could easily be recognised by their mucky boots and ill-fitting, handed down bowler hats.
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She also dressed him in an ill-fitting suit so he appeared to be losing weight.
Times, Sunday Times
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It can be brought on by years of wearing high-heeled or ill-fitting shoes that push the toe bones against the nerve.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nail-biting in children, shaving in men and ill-fitting shoes in adults have all been blamed for making warts more likely.
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She had reduced her joke-provoking bustline from 42D to 34B and instead of squeezing herself into ill-fitting size 20 tops and elasticated skirts, she could take her pick from the high street size 12 rails.
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The other two men ditch him as a liability, and he dies of gangrene caused unheroically by ill-fitting clogs.
And So It Went
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Malcolm was a complete one-off; a big, bumbling man, who wore dirty, ill-fitting suits and smelt of fags, but was absolutely hilarious when on stage.
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Ill-fitting garments were recut and repaired.
Times, Sunday Times
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Style Sins: Much like angel investors and roughed-up dad sneakers, ill-fitting jeans are a recurring theme in Silicon Valley.
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A few of us passed Harold, patted him on the back and stammered ill-fitting words of sympathy.
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The stereotype of the beardy academic, dressed in ill-fitting corduroy and locked away in his ivory tower, endures.
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It in no way involves squeezing yourself into ill-fitting clothes.
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Zero is dressed in a plain white T-shirt and ill-fitting jeans rolled up about six inches.
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They had dyspepsia and ill-fitting shoes, they bit their nails and worried about their waistlines.
GALILEE
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However, thanks to monetary policy as loose and ill-fitting as an XXL jellaba, most of us were standing passively by while, in the international financial hub of New York City, the banks tossed vast sums of cheap, borrowed money into the ever greedier hands of millions who could never even qualify for an ordinary mortgage.
Jackson Hole, Wyo.
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It's the first month of the first year of secondary school, I'm eleven, and I've got a bad pageboy haircut and an ill-fitting green blazer emblazoned with a school heraldic crest that looks like a lion being sick.
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The problem is that their jackets are ill-fitting.
Times, Sunday Times
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The previous cap over the well's riser pipe was ill-fitting.
Times, Sunday Times
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I did have one serious problem with my knee but that was a result of wearing ill-fitting orthotics.
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I also found out that my condition is inherited and not entirely caused by ill-fitting shoes.
Times, Sunday Times
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The kettle began to boil, its ill-fitting lid jerking under the pressure of the steam inside.
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Our diverse shapes make one woman's elegant maxidress another woman's ill-fitting sack.
Shaping up: how the right clothes can help create a perfect shape
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However, women who wear ill-fitting shoes are liable to suffer in the long-term with blisters, bunions and joint pains.
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The letter was a mishmash of ill-fitting proposals taken from two different reform plans.
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Does female emancipation really mean winning the right to dress up in an ill-fitting nurse's costume?
Times, Sunday Times
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His ill-fitting jeans and lumpy pockets said: "I'm just relaxing on holiday in these comfy old trews.
Face it, we all look dire on holiday | Victoria Coren
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In addition, he was instructed to get a Marines-type "whitewall" haircut, to wear an ill-fitting suit (it had belonged to his deceased father-in-law), and to describe himself as a penurious student at City College.
Adrian Monck
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Any my wife can't stop complaining about what I call my grub scrubs: an admittedly ill-fitting pair of shorts that are held together with a safety pin - three actually clipped together - a pair of purple, grass-stained Chuck Taylors and a wife-beater that no longer completely covers my mid-section.
Lawrence Shulruff: Recessionary Crisis? How about mid-life crisis in a recession?
