Example sentences for: corduroy

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

  • Lauren has already covered a quarter of Bloomingdale's furniture department with haute preppy ensembles of paisley, tartan plaid, and corduroy.

  • 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.

  • So we can have plastic hair clips or cotton potholders in zebra skin, vinyl-covered hassocks in giraffe pelt, soft corduroy sofa cushions or tough twill suitcases in tiger fur, and nylon zipper jackets in Dalmatian spots for 4-year-olds.

  • Songs that I hoped never to hear again--"Hold Your Head Up," "Take It Easy," "Band on the Run," "Free Bird"--sound, in context, startlingly fresh, and Dunph's brown corduroy jacket looks like the one I persisted in wearing into the late '80s when a girlfriend finally took the initiative to drop it down a garbage chute.

  • As several correspondents have written to me asking if I really wrote the words “an historical,” as printed in my guery on `Corduroy' last week, I hope that I shall be allowed to say that I did not.


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