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How to use trouser in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Trouser means of or relating to trousers. Example: “And this is our linen trouser, sir.”

Examples of trouser by meaning

nounA pair of trousers.

  • And this is our linen trouser, sir.

verbTo secretively steal (an item or money) for personal use.

  • He trousered it and brought it along to me.1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC
  • Barr, 34, trousered the money from the pub in Lugton, Ayrshire, between January 2016 and February 2018.2021 September 7, “Greedy pub worker’s assets targeted after he’s convicted of £40,000 embezzlement: Graham Barr trousered over £35,000...

verbTo take and keep (something, especially money, that is not one's own); to pocket.

  • Derry Irvine, Blair’s old boss, trousered a pension fund worth £2.3 million after just five years as Lord Chancellor - all courtesy of the tax payer.2010, Richard Littlejohn, Littlejohn’s Britain, page 348
  • Andy Prendergast, national secretary of the GMB union, said: “To see the boss of Shell trouser more than £6million while bills are crippling families and countries scrabble around trying to ditch Russian gas is abhorrent.2022 March 10, “Shell boss earns £6.3million in a year as households and motorists face cost of living crisis”, in Mirror
  • The founder and boss of CMC Markets is set to trouser £20million via the company’s dividend payments, even as the group’s profits and revenue fall.2022 June 9, “CMC Market boss and House of Lords member Peter Cruddas set for bumper dividend as trading platform’s profits and revenue...

More sentences with trouser

  • I wear boxer shorts under trousers but for sports I usually wear a brief.From the entry brief
  • My trousers have a big rip in them and need mending.From the entry mend
  • My trousers have a big rip in them and need a mend.From the entry mend
  • Your trousers need to dry out before you put them on.From the entry dry out
  • School uniforms for boys may include a school tie, jacket, cap and a pair of formal trousers.From the entry school uniform
  • These trousers are too big around the waist. They won't stay up.From the entry stay up
  • I needed to patch up my trousers after ripping them on the brambles.From the entry patch up
  • We didn't have computers or mobile phones back when I was in short trousers!From the entry in short trousers
  • Which's your spouse? -The one in trousers.From the entry which
  • You can't wear that shirt! It clashes with your trousers.From the entry clash
  • While measuring him for his trousers, the tailor asked him if he dressed to the left or the right.From the entry dress
  • The seat of these trousers is almost worn through.From the entry seat
  • The turnings get into your trouser turnups!From the entry turning
  • Fred liked fully lined trousers with his suits.From the entry lined
  • And then his trousers fell down, hehe.From the entry hehe
  • We have to wash your trousers: they're all scummy.From the entry scummy
  • The doctor asked me to take down my trousers.From the entry take down
  • His trousers were sagging off his legs.From the entry sag off
  • These trousers are a close fit.From the entry close
  • The trousers need to be shortened.From the entry trousers
  • His trousers bag at the knees.From the entry bag
  • She widened his trousers for him.From the entry widen
  • He hiked up his sagging trousers.From the entry hike up
  • The battle of the bulge was lost easily with the tight trousers I was wearing.2026 January 2, Kevin Foy, Seagulls Shadows on Slantyrock, Austin Macauley Publishers, →ISBN. From the entry battle of the bulge
  • Then unrolled his wet trouser pants, water dripping down his ankles, heat pinkening his skin.2025, Hannah Linder, The Red Cottage, Barbour Publishing, Incorporated. From the entry pinken
  • So I saw these new, really chic trousers from this high-end store called Walmart.2023 November 10, Julia Ain, Instagram. From the entry fit check
  • The blousy canion trousers bulged obscenely, as if the wearer had done something disgraceful in them.2017, Susan Wiggs, The Tudor Rose Trilogy Collection: An Anthology, MIRA, →ISBN. From the entry canion
  • He wore a black frock coat and light trousers, his cravat a gray four-in-hand.2013, A Scott Berg, Wilson, Berkley, published 2014, page 293. From the entry four-in-hand
  • They sit around, with ironic trousers on and three haircuts each, waiting to be discovered.2013, Kate Tempest, Wasted, page 13. From the entry I'm not being funny
  • Inside, the percebeiros stand in front of the sale table in their tattered trousers.2013 August 10, Christoph Otto, “Fortune on the rocks”, in Daily Telegraph, London, pages 26-31. From the entry percebeiro
  • Stylish dark grey tailored trousers, silver thongs and shiny jet-black stilettos.2012, Melanie Calvert, Freycinet, page 105. From the entry knit
  • He was dressed in a gray dinner jacket and matching trousers.2012, Tan Twan Eng, chapter 10, in The Garden of Evening Mists, Hachette, page 126. From the entry dinner jacket
  • Len took a comb from his trouser pocket and ran it through his hair.2011 February 3, Sarah Waters, The Night Watch, Hachette UK, →ISBN. From the entry spivvily
  • A spout of blood flew from his mouth, spattering Smichov's linen trousers.2010, James Fleming, Cold Blood, page 160. From the entry spout

Meaning of trouser

  1. noun Of or relating to trousers.
  2. noun A pair of trousers.
  3. verb To put (money) into one's trouser pocket; to pocket.

Full definition of trouser

Questions about trouser in a sentence

How do you use trouser in a sentence?
Trouser is used as a noun and verb. For example: “And this is our linen trouser, sir.”
What is a short sentence with trouser?
“He hiked up his sagging trousers.”
What does trouser mean?
Trouser means of or relating to trousers.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: trouser (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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