Example sentences for: lapels

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

  • They wear their devotion on their shirts now, also on their baseball caps and their lapels.

  • For instance the high-end design of a women’s jacket, made from $300-a-yard cashmere plaid fabric, can still be of very poor quality if the plaids do not match on the lapels, the inseams of the sleeves, or along the seam joining the back panels.

  • Reporters cluster around, attaching microphones to his lapels, and sticking tape recorders and cameras in his face.

  • 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.

  • Newsweek 's Jonathan Alter likens John's flying to his father's piloting of a PT boat in the war: "They both grabbed life by the lapels."


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