Example sentences for: khakis

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

  • A tall, athletic man who favors pleated khakis and starched button-down shirts, Zucker grew up in an upper-middle-class enclave in the west San Fernando Valley, far from the poverty he now sees every day.

  • By comparison, Will, the hero of About a Boy , is an abstraction, the sort of handsome cipher you see in magazine ads for khakis.

  • The result: He still does the khakis and the yacht shots and the polo ponies (and the red-white-and-blue-stripe designs that some liken to the Confederate flag), but he mixes them up with punch-bright colors and exploded logos.

  • Finally, at a farm in Perry, Iowa, Gore swapped his gray suit and tie for khakis and a barn coat, turned up the treble on his Tennessee accent, and strutted his ag-stuff, explaining that he wanted to step up antitrust enforcement against industrial hog producers.

  • A Lauren clone (read: "khakis") at the outset, he identified an underserved fashion niche--urban black America, which was drawn to Lauren's WASPy abstractions but alienated by their overstated inaccessibility.


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