Example sentences for: buttoned

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

  • I would have been too shy, or "buttoned down," to take that young girl's hand, and I would have been too absorbed with trivia to appreciate the things that made me so happy a few weeks ago.

  • It came to me while watching a pretty young woman in a San Francisco cybercafe who seemed to have a wonderful, funny, flirtatious personality online (I was in a position to read some of what she was typing) but who logged off and buttoned up her coat without looking left or right and hurried into the street as if afraid that someone might actually speak to her.

  • As Martin, attired in an exquisite light-blue dress shirt buttoned at the neck, watches from a couch, sipping cranberry juice,...Martin on screen is making a weird birthing grimace and taking eggs out of his pants.

  • Jeff Greenfield of CNN: "There is that problem that Gore has always had as a candidate, and so that when he doesn't wear a tie--and this may be unfair, but I don't think so--you have the sense that somebody, some clothing-engineer-consultant, said, 'Al, you know, use--we need the softer tones,' and then they take a focus group: 'You like the shirt buttoned or not?

  • Pattern layout may not seem important at first, until one sees a plaid mismatch when this jacket is buttoned.


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