Example sentences for: necktie

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

  • When he upends his campaign, yanks off his necktie, and engages his opponent, he's a risible Washington stiff trying to be what he's not.

  • Masculinity was allowed no erotic range in dress; the phallic necktie, licensed to reflect light and glow with color, was famously men's only hope.

  • A four-horse team is called a four-in-hand , and this has given its name to a necktie knot (the narrow kind, not the wide Windsor knot).

  • Bradley responded by snipping off the huckster's polyester necktie, saying in effect, Do you have so little respect for me as to think I'd fall for something that stupid ? While Gore waited with his hand dangling in midair, Bradley disdainfully critiqued and dismissed his whole approach to politics.

  • 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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