wet clothes
collocation in Englishmeaningsofwetandclothes
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wet
adjective
uk/wet/us/wet/
covered in water or ...
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clothes
noun[plural]
uk/kləʊðz/us/kloʊðz/
things such as dresses and trousers that you wear to cover, protect, or decorate ...
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(Definition ofwetandclothesfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The effects of inhalation, contemporaries argued, were exacerbated by exposure to extremes of temperature, the wearing ofwetclothes, and the exertion of lengthy ladder climbs.
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Very often, they come out of the pit sweating and have to put onwetclothes.
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When the pit flushes the men have 40 minutes to wait in theirwetclothesfor a bus.
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She was still in herwetclothes—she had no facilities for drying herself.
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When they get to their place of employment, in too many cases they have to work inwetclothes.
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The poor little thing has then to dress in thosewetclothesand to get home the best way it can.
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Is he aware that such children often have to walk to school in inclement weather and sit inwetclothesin the classroom?
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We can visualise what happened when they got to the potteries or in other working activities with theirwetclothes.
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The men come out of the pits with bundles of clothes under their arm andwetclotheson their bodies.
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Workers are likely to get soaking wet during wet weather and will have to work inwetclothes.
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I referred to cloakroom pegs where children can hang theirwetclothes.
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The miner goes home inwetclothesand his wife has to undergo all the difficulty and trouble.
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With regard to the licence forwetclothes, is this a general licence enabling everybody withwetclothesto use heat to dry them at their own discretion?
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Electric heaters are completely covered with drippingwetclothesto dry them faster.
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You run the risk of the child being improperly fed and of going to school inwetclothesthrough having had to work in the open in the rain.
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Perhaps they get wet, they sit in theirwetclothesall the afternoon, and that is bad for them, as it is favourable to the production of respiratory diseases.
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Classes were bedevilled and class rooms were hung round withwetclothesand boots—a background which is not helpful in trying to increase the numbers in the teaching profession.
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Speaking from experience, we have often been wet to the skin in going to our work, and then we have had to work in ourwetclothesall day.
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Due to the restricted movement and the weight ofwetclothesout of the water, an overarm recovery is not possible.
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