How to Use clothe in a Sentence

clothe

verb
  • The case in terms of the Ukraine misconduct is iron-clad.
    BostonGlobe.com, 24 Nov. 2019
  • The room is now lighter and brighter, with walls sheathed in rippling beech wood and the stage clad in white oak.
    Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2023
  • And the only noise in the Tampa arena was by the fans clad in red who’d made the trip north.
    Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 26 Apr. 2024
  • About a dozen cousins sat a few feet from him, clad in campaign gear.
    Nick Corasaniti, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2019
  • These are the places that the elite gentlemen of the last two centuries went to shop and get clothed.
    James Powel, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2024
  • Men and women clad in church clothes line up their cars along the curb and make their way to a gravesite.
    Caren Chesler, Popular Mechanics, 8 Nov. 2019
  • All day with the chain gang for 30 days, feed and clothe us and everything.
    Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2021
  • The clip shared on X—which used to be —showed the tot sat on the floor of a living room clad in a onesie.
    Julia Hunt, Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2024
  • The winning pair then go out on a date — fully clothed.
    Adela Suliman, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023
  • The main house, a long, low-slung black fortress clad in wood and glass, hunkers down on a windswept plateau.
    Mark David, Robb Report, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Click on to clothe your summer selves in the coolest, chicest fabric around.
    Kate Spencer, refinery29.com, 20 Apr. 2021
  • The singer was clad in her signature cutout dress, knee-high boots and long braids.
    Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2024
  • The next, the test subjects might be clad only in underwear in the cold.
    Rachel S. Gross, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2019
  • Tiffani Evans laced her fingers with the women clothed in all black.
    Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2023
  • Gentry, clad in a vest and top hat, is believed to appear in the left half of the image.
    Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 7 Dec. 2019
  • Dial was clad in a helmet, gas mask and body armor at the time.
    oregonlive, 12 Sep. 2019
  • The exterior is clad in gray walls with a flat roof, clean lines, and panes of glass.
    Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The mob was wearing white, while most of the demonstrators were clad in black, the color of the protest movement.
    Ben Westcott, CNN, 29 July 2019
  • Roughly one-third of the structure was clad with granite blocks.
    Bradford Betz, Fox News, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The album cover is in grayscale, with Swift lying on a bed of white sheets clad in all black.
    Lauren Huff, EW.com, 6 Feb. 2024
  • If the blanket doesn’t come with one, just be sure to be fully clothed when using it.
    Andrea Wurzburger, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 July 2023
  • Young dancers clad in black leotards pattered gently across the stage to their places.
    Bailey Reed, The Courier-Journal, 16 July 2024
  • As for the costumes, The Fifth Element team had to think of how to clothe Jovovich during her birth scene.
    Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 11 May 2022
  • There, clad in a bib, the hungry use their hands to break apart crab legs and crawfish and dig deep to get the meat from clams and mussels.
    cleveland, 10 Jan. 2020
  • Elsewhere, there’s a spacious open kitchen clad in warm wood.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Most black women have to work to help house, feed, and clothe their families.
    Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2022
  • From this and his wife’s part-time income, the couple have to feed and clothe themselves and their three daughters.
    Time, 30 July 2021
  • Some attached a photo of their daughter, clad in her brown vest.
    Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Another woman in red lipstick, clad in a seafoam coat keeps a brisk pace with her dog along 49th Street.
    The Indianapolis Star, 25 Nov. 2024
  • As our conversation wraps, Ashe reenters the room — still clad in his prison-stripe pajamas — and wants to say goodbye to both me and his dad.
    William Earl, Variety, 22 Nov. 2024

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