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How to use tuxedo in a sentence

20 example sentences · noun

Tuxedo means a typically black formal jacket worn by men. Example: “He wore a tuxedo for his sister's wedding.”

Examples of tuxedo by meaning

nounA typically black formal jacket worn by men.

  • He wore a tuxedo for his sister's wedding.
  • His mom bought a tuxedo for him.

More sentences with tuxedo

  • You look so sharp in that tuxedo!From the entry sharp
  • Tux is a short form of tuxedo.From the entry short form
  • Realizing the tuxedo kitten was an orphan like me, I scooped her up and brought her inside.2023, Tara Conrad, Real Life Romance: Duke and Percy, unnumbered page. From the entry instalove
  • One boy in a black tuxedo and red shoes plays a wheezing accordion like a roadside undertaker.2009, J. P. White, Every Boat Turns South, page 112. From the entry wheeze
  • The doctor's gaze was on the right sleeve of his tuxedo suitjacket.2005 November 14, John D. Loscher, The Black Madonna, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 484. From the entry suitjacket
  • No, a dress shirt is to be worn exclusively as part of a black-tie outfit, most commonly a tuxedo.2024 July 30, “The Complete Guide To Men’s Dress Shirts”, in FashionBeans. From the entry dress shirt
  • The groom donned a handmade silk-cotton tuxedo and top hat.2022 March 16, Sean Malin, “Love Is in the Air. So Is Dander.”, in The New York Times. From the entry Brussels griffon
  • Owners of tuxedos, or “tuxies,” have described them as twice as smart as other cats, which could explain Domino’s remarkable success.2021 July 20, Avrel Seale, “The Domino Effect”, in UT Austin News. From the entry tuxie
  • Wheeler takes a taxi from the hotel to the venue, bringing his tuxedo and his violin with him.2019 April 10, qntm, “CASE HATE RED”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, page 135. From the entry heirloom
  • Then she smooshed cake into his mouth and onto his face, leaving cream everywhere, even getting it on his gray tuxedo.2018, Victoria Pinder, Secret Date. From the entry smoosh
  • He wore a baggy tuxedo with a white pocket-handkerchief.2015 January 13, Mark Swed, “Still perplexing and astounding”, in Los Angeles Times, page E4. From the entry pocket-handkerchief
  • What, you gonna wear a glittery sequin tuxedo and foof your hair and play the piano for them?2011, Randy Powel, The Whistling Toilets. From the entry foof
  • We all had on tuxedos and the women were in their dresses and serious patrician shoes and splendid earwear.1989, Barry Hannah, Boomerang, page 148. From the entry earwear
  • Although they had eloped in Vegas, she'd insisted he wear a tuxedo and she buy a wedding dress at one of the local stores.2009, Jan Springer, Intimate Stranger, Ellora's Cave, published 2009, →ISBN, page 132. From the entry elope
  • There was a smoothtalking character in a checkered vest wearing what looked like a plumcolored tuxedo jacket whom she described as a lecturer.1961, John Dos Passos, “Prime Mover (concluded)”, in Midcentury, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside…. From the entry smoothtalking
  • A military shirt can be worn with as much grace and neatness as a tuxedo, and a sweater or jersey is respectable when clean.1915 April 3, “The College Tramp”, in The Notre Dame Scholastic. From the entry dudism
  • In the "Heffalumps and Woozles" ditty from Winnie the Pooh, elephants—those would be the heffalumps—wear tuxedos and use their trunks as accordions and suddenly turn blue.2014 May 11, Matt Simon, “Fantastically Wrong: History’s Most Hilarious Misconceptions about the Elephant”, in Wired, San Francisco…. From the entry heffalump
  • In his black Armani tuxedo, Dad set the first slice of turducken on one of the expensive china plates in a tall stack beside him and held it up.2008, S. A. Bodeen, The Compound, Square Fish, published 2009, →ISBN, pages 103–104. From the entry turducken

Meaning of tuxedo

  1. noun A typically black formal jacket worn by men.
  2. noun The entire suit complementing and including this jacket.

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Questions about tuxedo in a sentence

How do you use tuxedo in a sentence?
Tuxedo is used as a noun. For example: “He wore a tuxedo for his sister's wedding.”
What is a short sentence with tuxedo?
“His mom bought a tuxedo for him.”
What does tuxedo mean?
Tuxedo means a typically black formal jacket worn by men.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tuxedo (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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