1 There were waiters with trays and starched cloths.

2 She shook out an-other damp starched shirt.

3 They are dressed in starched khaki.

4 These shirts need to be starched and ironed.

5 They got hot under their starched collars about an obscene profusion of textual practices.

6 Two pairs of black policemen in starched khaki uniforms were there to discourage the pickpockets if possible, arrest them if necessary.

7 A double bed with starched white sheets covering a too-soft mattress fills most of the space.

8 The parquet was shined, the table-cloths starched and the waiters had clean shirts.

9 He was dressed in starched jungle fatigues and polished jungle boots.

10 We girls wore starched white aprons and very uncomfortable they were too.

11 Under her starched cap the dyed dry hair was puffed out.

12 They draped the starched white tablecloth over the big deal table.

13 She starched his shirts, shined his shoes, and kept lint off his suits.

14 She wore a freshly laundered and starched white shirt.

15 The starched napkin hung stiff as a board.

16 I took down the curtains, washed, and starched them.

17 Those cuddly little WACs from Ohio in their starched uniforms.

18 Kathy was there, and Tony Carbo, and a happy-looking assembly of dignitaries in pin-stripes and starched blue shirts.

19 He was as anxious as Betty for Russell to stay in this sunny home with the starched curtains.

20 She had blue eyes and fair hair pulled back under her starched cap.

21 At the door Nurse Lambert stood waiting with a wheelchair - crisp, starched, bright as the April sunlight.

22 His shirt was so white that it must have been starched.

23 It advertised a character of fastidious and correct nature, some one whose collars would be uncomfortably starched.

24 He was dressed in a Victorian morning suit, high starched collar, watered-silk cravat.

25 An older woman whose hair and dress were folded and starched leading a younger woman flushed with inexpert embarrassment.

26 When he was with close friends, he abandoned that somewhat starched public demeanour.

27 Nurse smelt of toothpaste and disinfectant, and crackled when she moved because her clothes were so stiffly starched.

28 The white shirt under the gray suit-jacket is stiffly starched; the tie is held in place by an alumnus tie-tack.

29 Bright blood was splattered across the chest of his starched white shirt as though it had been shaken out of a mop.

30 Beach life at the Royal Palm is epitomised by a waiter, in starched white bermudas, proffering a silver tray with cold towels and fresh pineapple.

31 His neck chafed against the starched fetter of a collar.

32 But they are now nice and crisp with neat starched creases and back to sprout green.

33 She starched up her behaviour with a double portion of reserve.

34 Orville Wright wore a suit and tie and a white shirt with starched collar when he made man's first powered flight in 1903.

35 They starched two hundred white shirts, with a single gathering movement seizing a shirt so that the wristbands, neckband, yoke, and bosom protruded beyond the circling right hand.

36 Briggs reached for the door but it opened before he touched it, revealing a severe-looking older man in a starched white shirt.

37 One is smoking a pipe made of white clay and is wearing a strange derby hat and a starched collar.

37 try its best to gather and create good sentences.

38 Starched reinforced fabric used to strengthen a book binding or the spine of a bound book.

39 Only the suit and coat are to be dry-cleaned. I want to have my blouse tomorrow evening. And I'd like the collar and cuffs starched.

40 Indeed, it is said that BBC studios were designed so that starched cuffs couldn't inadvertently knock important controls.

41 He was bare-headed and sweaty. With a handkerchief in one hand he mopped his face, while in the other hand he carried a new hat and a wilted starched collar which he had removed from his neck.

42 Don't worry or get excited. He had sat beside her on the train, in his starched uniform.

43 They were in starched white shirts and paper hats, and moved with a purposeful discipline.

44 I want the red checkered shirt starched. And I don 't want the light blue shirt starched.

45 "Welcome, Master, " says the maid as she bows deeply, hands clasped in front of a starched pinafore worn over a pink dress.