Example sentences for: sweater

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

  • A great many words in Quechua begin with hua- or gua- (used interchangeably), so when the hacienda owner tells his Indian quachimán to keep a sharp lookout on his nightly rounds, neither may realize that the word derives from watchman . And when Mami is persuaded that daughter needs a new sweater and buys her a chompa , neither may think of the long departed Englishwomen whose jumpers brought the word into the language.

  • Not so with trendy new items like Lands' End's $395 "ultimate cashmere sweater."

  • You get to a hotel room in your travel-stained sweater, shirt, and pants, and drop all these down a chute.

  • Personal shoppers are a poor substitute for the communal pleasure of hunting down the perfect sweater with pals.

  • Turning the cutout letters of Emily Post's Advice to Debutantes into a debutante's dress (designed by Evans and Wong, 1996), or knitting the preamble to the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence into a cashmere sweater (designed by Joseph Golden, 1997), or even just making a dress out of random alphabet-lace (French, late 1920s)--all these are ways of flaunting modern fashion's basic iconoclasm.


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