tweed

How To Use tweed In A Sentence

• She took a lot of tweed and heavy suiting, an ankle-length dress and platform shoes - quite the bonkers stuff.
• Jillie leads me through an opening in the brush, a path lined with white knotweed and purple morning glories that opens up, just beyond the briers of blackberry vines that have long been picked clean by quail and finches, into a meadow lighted with goldenrod and sunlight against the rusty tops of tall grasses, striving against the subtle blues of the lobelia and the aggressive reds of jack-in-the-pulpits. Taxonomies
• Tweed sports jackets are all the rage, and the best part is that you don't need to worry about matching patterns when it comes to blazers and button-down shirts.
• The style gurus put their money on culottes, Miss Marple tweed and anything plum.
• Would you don the powdered wig, the tweed dress and the pearls? Times, Sunday Times
• While all the other girls' clothes were cute and baggy and slouchy, my pencil skirt and tweed vest fit tight across my hips and butt.
• This season, a floaty chiffon knee-length skirt paired with a Fair Isle sweater or a tweedy jacket will look extremely hip.
• The participants are middle-aged men in tweed hats that you might expect to see on a British gentleman farmer.
• I am, for example, as suspicious of authors in tweedy jackets or carrying pipes as I am of professors with elbow patches - they seem to be playing a role that shows how they envision themselves as Author, rather than beign who they are. Archive 2008-04-01
• The colossal arms disappearing into her coat's dolman sleeves, tweed flecked with purple and gold. THE SHIPPING NEWS