Example sentences for: trousers

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

  • There were, moreover, no attempts to carve Lincoln in the nude with drapery, as there had been with Washington, no efforts to heroicize him out of his trousers, just as there were none to popularize him with comfy sportswear.

  • Whether or not they find anything, they will eventually get into half-blues civilian jacket over job shirt and trousers and go off to the pub for a well-earned pint; and if you eavesdrop on their conversation, since policemen always talk shop, you will undoubtedly overhear some of the expressions you have been introduced to here.

  • In the nineteenth century, the Age of Euphemism, the word unmentionables designated only one specific referent--men's trousers.

  • For a long-forgotten brand of trousers, it went like this:

  • Don Sharp's essay [XVIII ,2] on the unmentionability of men's trousers in the 19th century brought to my mind an advertising poem which my grandfather saw on the El in Chicago early in this century.


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