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How to use corduroy in a sentence

15 example sentences · noun, adjective, verb

Corduroy means a heavy fabric, usually made of cotton, with vertical ribs. Example: “He wore green corduroy trousers, a duffle coat and an old school tie.”

Examples of corduroy by meaning

nounA heavy fabric, usually made of cotton, with vertical ribs.

  • He wore green corduroy trousers, a duffle coat and an old school tie.1956, Delano Ames, chapter 4, in Crime out of Mind

More sentences with corduroy

  • Soon, the incessant wind would dry the stenchy wallow to corduroyed cement.2003, Suzann Ledbetter, A Lady Never Trifles with Thieves. From the entry wallow
  • This time I wrapped the doll in corduroy before I chucked it in.1995, Jerome Charyn, The Tar Baby, Dalkey Archive Press, →ISBN, page 79. From the entry bibble
  • He is dressed in an old sweater, corduroy trousers, sandles and elastoplasted spectacles.1987, David Edgar, Plays: One. From the entry elastoplasted
  • Common varieties of the fancy fustians are corduroy, jean, pillow, thickset, velveret and velveteen.1986 fall (June), Richard Henning Field, “Lunenberg-German Household Textiles: The Evidence from Lunenburg County Estate Inventories…. From the entry fustian
  • Practically everyone in the army wore corduroy knee-breeches, but there the uniformity ended.1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter I, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC. From the entry knee-breeches
  • This Eben did every day till he grew out of knee-breeches into long corduroy trousers.1918, Caradoc Evans, “The Talent Thou Gavest”, in My People: Stories of the Peasantry of West Wales, New York: Boni and Liveright, page 68. From the entry knee-breeches
  • He wore a blue galatea shirt, corduroy trousers and riding boots.1912 (date first published), Katherine Mansfield, "The Woman At The Store", from Selected Short Stories. From the entry galatea
  • James strolled through the neighborhood in rumpled tan corduroys and work boots, with pinchable baby fat visible through his shirt.2008 June 15, Ben Sisario, “Out of the Comfort Zone, Into the Wild Rock Yonder”, in New York Times. From the entry pinchable
  • Sometimes they were plainly woven, but fustians could also be fashioned with “tufts” creating fabric like corduroy or velveteen.2007, Susan M. Ouellette, “Flax from the Field, Cotton from the Sea”, in US Textile Production in Historical Perspective: A Case Study…. From the entry fustian
  • The second day, she put on a reasonably unstinky corduroy shirt and the lawyer paid her a visit in her room.2006, Helen Hampton, Dickie. From the entry unstinky
  • A rugged landscape, two rugged men—stetsons, corduroy and denim—both gazing terse and tight-jawed at the Wyoming mountainscape. . . .2006 January 8, Jonathan Romney, “Brokeback Mountain”, in The Independent (UK), retrieved 14 Jul 2014. From the entry Marlboro Man
  • The racks include blouses and sweaters and some polyfill vests, with corduroy coats and outerwear due to be in stock as the weather cools.1981 October 11, Jeanne Clare Feron, “Careful Shopper; Elmsford Warehouse A Weekend Store”, in New York Times, page 16. From the entry polyfill
  • He stopped to look at a shop selling ladies' wear, and stared for a long time at a bottle-green suit of corduroy slacks.1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 35. From the entry bottle green
  • Not only thin materials, but Johnny's jeans and corduroys, which the old iron lady used to chew up and swallow and then just moan and die on.2014, Taylor, American Geisha, →ISBN, page 22. From the entry iron lady

Meaning of corduroy

  1. noun A heavy fabric, usually made of cotton, with vertical ribs.
  2. noun Cheap and poor-quality whiskey.
  3. noun A pattern on snow resulting from the use of a snow groomer to pack snow and improve skiing, snowboarding and snowmobile trail conditions. Corduroy is widely regarded as a good surface on which to ski or ride.

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Questions about corduroy in a sentence

How do you use corduroy in a sentence?
Corduroy is used as a noun, adjective and verb. For example: “He wore green corduroy trousers, a duffle coat and an old school tie.”
What is a short sentence with corduroy?
“He wore a blue galatea shirt, corduroy trousers and riding boots.”
What does corduroy mean?
Corduroy means a heavy fabric, usually made of cotton, with vertical ribs.

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