Example sentences for: breeches

How can you use “breeches” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In physics, where other forms of misconduct are relatively rare, I have seen serious breeches of ethics committed under the cloak of anonymity by referees of journal articles and research proposals.

  • He always wore a sombrero with a wide brim, a leather chaqueta (jacket), tight-fitting knee-length sotas (breeches), and botas (leather leggings) for protection.

  • So, I ask Greenberg: Would you be comfortable lacing up the old athletic club breeches, rubbing a bit of pine tar on your trusty ball bat, and heading down to P.S. 121 with a few of your friends to teach these ruffians a lesson?

  • Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,

  • Dolley Madison, he explains, controlled her diminutive husband and "launched the White House's first 'drawing room' receptions which, in her day, were celebrated--the men in 'black or blue coat with vest, black breeches and black stockings,' the ladies 'not remarkable for anything so much as for the exposure of their swelling breasts and bare backs.


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