Example sentences for: trousers

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

  • Writing styles have changed greatly from Victorian days when, as Phyllis Cunnington observes in Costumes of the Nineteenth Century, to talk of trousers was considered vulgar, and some extraordinary names were given to them, such as unmentionables, inexpressibles, unwhisperables, nether integuments, and others.

  • 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.

  • • It is not only trousers that are implicitly excluded by the printed word (New York Sansculottery): the current obsession with knowing the ingredients of foodstuffs has resulted in several notices on items in bakers' shops, saying Our cakes are made with pure butter only, a culinary feat.

  • In Paris Sunday, Le Monde published a front-page cartoon of a cameraman filming inside the president's trousers, while its editorial, titled "The American Pillory," condemned Kenneth Starr's "persecution" of the president and the broadcasting of the grand jury videotapes as the equivalent of "a public execution."

  • But at The New Yorker this Victorian attitude persists, albeit with a new twist: time and again men's trousers are not given substitute names but are left out of otherwise quite detailed sartorial descriptions.


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