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How to use necktie in a sentence

23 example sentences · noun

Necktie means a strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front. Example: “It is the usual practice of employees there to wear neckties only when meeting with customers.”

More sentences with necktie

  • It is the usual practice of employees there to wear neckties only when meeting with customers.From the entry practice
  • He seems like an average businessman, but deep down he's an overgrown kid with a necktie.From the entry deep down
  • Straighten out your necktie and comb your hair.From the entry straighten out
  • Neckties are a real detestation for them.From the entry detestation
  • The necktie party is followed by shootings, stabbings and a smorgasbord of violence.2011 January 17, Paul Andersen, “Cultural necrophilia”, in Aspen Times, USA, retrieved 30 Jun 2011. From the entry necktie party
  • He hoped that the rumour about the Canadian school with neckties was true.2005, Kathrine K[ristine] Beck, Snitch, Scholastic Children’s Books, →ISBN, pages 87–88. From the entry Harry Potterish
  • Edgar noticed that Clyde was wearing a necktie with a driblet design.1997, Don DeLillo, Underworld, 2003 edition, →ISBN, page 560. From the entry paramecium
  • I stare carefully into the Kekuléan knot of the middle Dean's necktie.1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 5. From the entry Kekuléan
  • Said Shupe: "It sure looked like a necktie party was being organized.1958 July 21, “Foreign Relations: Back from Russia”, in Time. From the entry necktie party
  • Solow said, “he peddled neckties, shoelaces and collar-buttons from a tray.1930, Michael Gold, “Portrait of My Mother”, in The Menorah Journal, volume XVIII, page 63. From the entry collar-button
  • Last year Chinese coolie coats were the rage, along with snazzy neckties and boyish bobs.1927 September 20, “Dad is anxious to see what s[tyles?] in high school: Casts anxious eye on school mode; short slickers are due”, in…. From the entry snazzy
  • This ain't no necktie party that you're asked to assist in!'1914, Bram Stoker, The Squaw. From the entry pard
  • In men's fashion the ultimate style move is sprezzatura, embracing intentional errors such as undone buttons and misaligned neckties.2022, W. David Marx, chapter 4, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN. From the entry sprezzatura
  • Beside him now a leather-jacketted man with a flowered necktie, squat-nosed, sits scowling over a pint of lager.2002, Thomas E. Kennedy, “Davy Byrnes”, in Kerrigan’s Copenhagen: A Love Story, Galway: Wynkin deWorde, →ISBN, “[Week Three,] Days Six…. From the entry jacketted
  • High heels are something like neckties for women, in that it can be harder to look both formal and femme without them.2019 March 20, Summer Brennan, “Sex, power, oppression: why women wear high heels”, in The Guardian. From the entry femme
  • Your trench coat, your chinos, your Father’s Day necktie—your closet overflows with gear that was originally worn by stout patriots, fearful conscripts, and paid killers.2019 March 6, Troy Patterson, “From Grunt Style to 'Warcore,' Civilians Are Embracing Military Fashion”, in The New Yorker. From the entry warcore
  • The Road to Tara Museum had a lot of Gone with the Wind and almost no Sherman, except for one twisted Sherman's necktie.2014, Anne Sarah Rubin, “Conclusion: Rubin’s March”, in Through the Heart of Dixie: Sherman’s March and American Memory, Chapel Hill…. From the entry Sherman necktie
  • Wu, with close-cropped hair and a lineless face, wore a cardigan and a necktie and looked like a truant from boarding school.2009 January 25, Eric Wilson, “The Spotlight Finds Jason Wu”, in New York Times. From the entry lineless
  • The men destroyed nearly all property in their path, famously twisting railroad tracks around tree trunks—"Sherman neckties"—so they would never be usable again.2006, Christopher J. Olsen, “Confederate Families at War in 1864–1865”, in The American Civil War: A Hands-on History, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry Sherman necktie
  • A young girl, age eleven, had been slashed across the throat and had her tongue pulled through the cut, reminiscent of the Colombian necktie.2000, B. J. Whalen, Justifiable Homicide, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 243, →ISBN. From the entry Colombian necktie
  • Supporting this, they claimed that Nicole must have borrowed money from one of Colombian drug Lords and so fell victim to Colombian necktie or necklace?1997, Felicia Okeke-Ibezim, O. J. Simpson: The Trial of the Century, Ekwike Books & Publishing, →ISBN, page 36, →ISBN. From the entry Colombian necktie
  • I have never possessed one of the more pictorial neckties favoured by the barrow-boy who has also ambitions to be a buck, bean, or blade.1951, Ivor John Carnegie Brown, I break my word, page 52. From the entry enscarf
  • He pierced with his sombre detachment the plate-glass of ironmongers and saddlers, while Strether flaunted an affinity with the dealers in stamped letter-paper and in smart neckties.1903 September 28, Henry James, The Ambassadors, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC. From the entry flaunt

Meaning of necktie

  1. noun A strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front.

Full definition of necktie

Questions about necktie in a sentence

How do you use necktie in a sentence?
Necktie is used as a noun. For example: “It is the usual practice of employees there to wear neckties only when meeting with customers.”
What is a short sentence with necktie?
“Neckties are a real detestation for them.”
What does necktie mean?
Necktie means a strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front.

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