Sentence Examples

1. His eyes held hers as he lifted the hem of her dress above her ankles.
2. It was of a simple design with a medium-length v-neck collar and no trimmings on the cuffs or hem.
3. She spends most of the drive pulling at a loose thread on the hem of her shirtsleeve.
4. He grabs a handful of the material in each hand, and the hem rises.
5. Some time later, after Elizabeth had watched his departure through the garden, she was still musing over her visitor when Kate returned with the dress, its hem repaired.
6. I move my hands away from the hem and turn around.
7. The same tattoo that had peeked beneath the hem of his Madras shirtsleeve in the woods on The Day.
8. Kate left the room, taking the dress to have a hem repaired.
9. It had rained all day the grass and leaves were wet and her skirt hem was dark with water from where she had walked around the small box-hedged garden, the spaniel trailing sullenly behind her.
10. The sleeves were long and hung like bells beneath my wrists, and the hem of the dress reached to my ankles.