Example sentences for: clothes

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

  • Washington and Jefferson in their antique knee pants can't hope to compete; neither can Teddy Roosevelt in his boots and gun, nor Reagan in his cowboy outfit, nor, frankly, Dole and Clinton in their exercise clothes.

  • Depending on what era the movie is set in, clothes can conjure a unfamiliarity that is soothingly adorable or uneasily alien.

  • Much of it is risible, yet I loved watching it--not because I thought that the emperor was wearing new clothes but because I thought he looked fine--beautiful, actually--naked.

  • Matthau had on his Einstein clothes (floppy brown wide-wale corduroy pants, brown suspenders, a gray striped cotton-short-sleeved shirt, Rockport shoes) and his Einstein makeup ...Saks was costumed in a Panama hat and cream-colored jacket and pants; Jacobi in cap, gloves, spats, and a too tight vest over a big belly: Maher in a white-and-black-checked coat, tweedy pants, and round-rimmed glasses.

  • Uniforms discriminate against girls (who must wear impractical skirts), cost money to parents (who still must buy play clothes) and schools (who must provide uniforms for poor students), and have not been shown to improve academic performance or behavior.


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