corduroy

How To Use corduroy In A Sentence

• There had been a good deal of joking, both Spanish and English, among the passengers; I had found particularly cheering the richness of a certain machinist’s trousers of bright golden corduroy; but as the shades of night began to embrown the scene our spirits fell; and at the cry of a lonesome bird, far off where the sunset had been, they followed the sun in its sudden drop. Familiar Spanish Travels
• The mound of dirty clothing just keeps piling up until your hamper is overflowing and a sea of denim, cotton and corduroy forms a carpet on the floor of your bedroom.
• There is a man, approximately my age, attractive in a scruffy, academic sort of way brown corduroy jacket, one of those narrow, stripey, many-coloured scarves that men are wearing this season coiled around his neck, tufty brown hair, sitting across the aisle to my right on a strapontin. Power, corruption and lies
• Fat toffs wearing pink corduroy trousers. The Sun
• Your new cardigan can be worn over a T-shirt with jeans, corduroy pants or khakis.
• We must've looked like freaks to people who had never seen a hacking jacket or wide-wale corduroys with lobsters embroidered on them. Christian Chensvold: Preppy Evangelist: The Lisa Birnbach Interview
• Wear them with a pair of boot-cut distressed designer jeans, a thick gray wool turtleneck, and a beige or brown corduroy blazer.
• This show, held in cavernous, candelabra-strewn space that had a whiff of ruined empire, had plenty of strong, practical pieces: impeccably cut overcoats, running the gamut from deepest navy and ashiest gray to the purest white with black trimming; three-piece suits tailored with Browne's signature off-kilter proportions, and a pair of gray corduroy pants strewn with white snowflakes. Esquire.com Article Feed
• At 06.27 hours on 1 January 1975, Alfred Archibald Jones was dressed in corduroy and sat in a fume-filled Cavalier Musketeer Estate face down on the steering wheel, hoping the judgement would not be too heavy upon him. Excerpt: White Teeth by Zadie Smith
• He wore indigo jeans and a brown corduroy jacket, and I caught a faint but pleasant hint of aftershave. Times, Sunday Times