Example sentences for: khaki

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

  • $5-- With cartoon bad guys Hitler, Castro, Stalin, and Qaddafi, just like the Gap khaki ads.

  • bandanna, bangle, banyan, bungalow, cheetah, chintz, chit, chop, chutney, coolie, copra, cot, cowrie, cummerbund, cushy, deodar, dinghy, dungaree, gong, gunny, guru, jungle, khaki, krait, loot, pajamas, punch, pundit, puttee, seersucker, shampoo, swami, thug, toddy, tom-tom, topee, veranda

  • The dress style of the young men, sometimes called batos locos, usually teenagers, is a Pendleton shirt; perfectly pressed, loose khaki pants; a bright white undershirt; and shiny shoes.

  • The girls, rucas (Indian girls) or cholas (mestizo girls), may wear the same khaki pants or short tight skirts, highly teased long hair, and lots of eye makeup.

  • A motley crowd is hurrying by--workers in dungarees; a yogi with his followers; a noblewoman in purdah in palanquin; a group of nautch girls, attractive in their aniline-dyed dresses and bright bandanas, their bangles jingling and their long, shampooed hair streaming in the breeze; a sepoy all smart in khaki on his horse, his jodhpurs trim and neat; a scholarly pundit; a mahout on his elephant, ambling like a juggernaut.


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