Example sentences for: collar

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

  • On a more mundane but equally fascinating level, you will see the collar and bowl of “Greyfriars Bobby” (see page 57).

  • But when I saw its kin threading up the collar Of the Colavita Extra Virgin Olive Oil, I scrubbed the cupboards with all The Formula 409 to be found, finding Larvae in the flour, in the corn Meal last used in the late-eighties, The creamy-style Skippy, the Basmati rice, The sesame seeds and Aunt Jemima Lite.

  • When Clare applied for her first magazine job--writing picture captions for Vogue --and heard nothing from the editors, Morris writes, "she put on a gray dress with white collar and cuffs, went back to the Graybar Building, and persuaded an assistant that she was a new employee.

  • His marble sleeves and pants legs break into noble tailored folds around his endless arms and legs, his marble lapels lie gravely along his chest, his marble buttons, watch chain, necktie, and collar points create small episodes along the front of his lean body, over a marble shirt and waistcoat that create a stately sequence of carved wrinkles.

  • As recently as 1969, the dress code at Harvard required undergraduate men to wear a collar, necktie, and jacket in the dining halls; women had to wear a dress or a skirt and blouse.


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