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wearing
[ wair-ing ]
adjective
- gradually impairing or wasting:
Reading small print can be wearing on the eyes.
- wearying or exhausting:
a wearing task.
- relating to or made for wear.
wearing
/ ˈwɛərɪŋ /
adjective
- causing fatigue or exhaustion; tiring
Derived Forms
- ˈwearingly, adverb
Other Words From
- wearing·ly adverb
- un·wearing adjective
Example Sentences
Because vaccine production is still scaling up, getting things under control well enough to head off a second phase of the pandemic would have to rely heavily on social distancing and mask-wearing.
Their spread can be inhibited by the same common-sense measures, like social distancing and mask-wearing.
Dining halls will be all takeout at first, to maximize mask-wearing in places where students run into each other.
Airlines typically require self-declarations and mask-wearing by passengers but do not conduct professional health screenings or require coronavirus testing of domestic passengers.
Berenson said on the show Monday that mask-wearing has made “absolutely zero difference” in alleviating the pandemic, despite the scientific consensus to the contrary.
One difference was that Chen was herself wearing white gloves.
She is wearing a crop top, and Andrew has his arm wrapped around her waist.
Otis says he was wearing a tan jacket similar to one described by witnesses.
She was not wearing hejab but more surprising that that, is married to an Englishman.
Wearing the right foot of a chicken was considered good luck.
And she would be wearing some of the jewels with the white dress—just a few, not many, of course.
That she had her definite reason he knew, as a woman knows when another woman is wearing a last year's gown.
The law went into operation in England imposing a tax on wearing hair powder.
Governor Endicott, and other influential men in Massachusetts, formed an association against wearing long hair!
I should judge from the streets that not more than one-fourth of the females of Galway belong to the shoe-wearing aristocracy.
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