How To Use Buttoned-up In A Sentence

  • The current trend for a prim, buttoned-up collar lends itself perfectly to brooch wearing. Times, Sunday Times
  • Shirts ran the gamut from an easy Nehru collar, or wide, stiff Eton-collar shirts that give new meaning to the phrase buttoned-up. Milan Men's Fashion Week: S&M, Silk Suits & McQueen (PHOTOS)
  • The clean lines and beautifully minimalist room was built for languor and comfort, yet the atmosphere was buttoned-up with a starched collar.
  • If local women venture onto the dusty streets at all, they sport ankle-length dresses, buttoned-up blouses and 1930s hairstyles with buns and pompadours.
  • It fits perfectly the template for the new breed of Britflick; talented rebel clashes with buttoned-up pillars of the establishment, who are forced to unbend, and finally admit that self-expression, and so on, is a good thing.
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  • Following relatively buttoned-up remarks by FBI Director Robert Mueller, Mr. Dupnik again addressed issues such as antigovernment fervor, lax gun control and what he views as a failed system to deal with the mentally ill. Arizona Elicits Sheriff's Criticism
  • She kicked off her new look on Sunday with a buttoned-up blouse and jacket. The Sun
  • She kicked off her new look on Sunday with a buttoned-up blouse and jacket. The Sun
  • I flashback to Scholz, buttoned-up warm against the cold, his collar clean, his tie neat.
  • Where the villain's music has the kind of brassy, descending notes that signal cunning evil, Wells is given an almost wistful flute - music that suggests a meek, buttoned-up Victorian. Undefined
  • She in her buttoned-up cheongsams and high heels, he in his sober-toned shantung suits and narrow ties - they repress themselves in the high style of their day and wear their restrictions as badges of honor.
  • She in her buttoned-up cheongsams and high heels, he in his sober-toned shantung suits and narrow ties - they repress themselves in the high style of their day and wear their restrictions as badges of honor.
  • employers are looking for buttoned-up types
  • If local women venture onto the dusty streets at all, they sport ankle-length dresses, buttoned-up blouses and 1930s hairstyles with buns and pompadours.
  • Is the buttoned-up Mr Smith capable of that?

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