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Example sentences for "buttoned"

Lexicographically close words:
butther; butting; buttock; buttocks; button; buttonhole; buttonholed; buttonholes; buttonholing; buttonhook
  1. Ellen put on her hat and pinned it, and put on her jacket and buttoned it.

  2. Then he buttoned it under his coat, and paid the quarter which Welks said had always been the price of a cowhide even since he could remember, and walked away towards the station.

  3. Buttoned into a close jacket, and skirted short for the sea, she pushed against the breeze at Breckon's elbow with a vigor that made him look his surprise at her.

  4. He could only saunter away and leave Mrs. Kenton to a little pang.

  5. She did not know the right use of will and shall, and would and should, and she pronounced the letter 'r' with a hard mid-Western twist.

  6. Well, I should like to tell him why, and see what he would say.

  7. So the regulation vest buttoned up to the chin, but very many had theirs made with rolling collar, to show the shirt.

  8. In a sealed tin box, buttoned in a pocket attached to the belt.

  9. I never felt so swell as when I first buttoned it on.

  10. My map is buttoned in my shirt, for consultation at halts.

  11. She put on the grey cloak she had thrown aside, buttoned it about her throat, and tied her bonnet strings.

  12. There is nothing more to say I suppose," nervously suggested Mr. Forde as the lawyer buttoned up his coat, and requested the loan of an umbrella.

  13. She waited until Hester had put on and buttoned the gloves.

  14. What a beautiful sentiment you might conjure up about a waist which some dear departed chum had embroidered for you; or perhaps she buttoned it up the back the first time you wore it and died immediately afterward.

  15. If I ever am principal of a seminary, I'll have a law passed making it criminal for a teacher to wear a dress buttoned in the back.

  16. Mocha's buttoned up in a stud game where he dassen't turn his head to spit.

  17. When she was snugly buttoned inside of it he led her out into the dim gray dawn; she went with him obediently.

  18. He wore a grey Confederate coat All buttoned down before--" "Don't like it that way?

  19. He had a coat buttoned over his great chest, and as he spoke he kept on buttoning and unbuttoning it with his great coarse hand.

  20. He buttoned his coat with a half sulky, half defiant air, left his supper untasted, and disappeared.

  21. No majesty in his bearing, a waistcoat buttoned to the chin, a mean, insolent manner, and a fashion of speaking without opening his lips, very unpleasant to those who are listening to him.

  22. To protect him from the cold the writer had a suit of thick clothing, covered with a sheepskin coat that buttoned tight around the neck and descended to the ankles.

  23. She was dressed for the evening, and looked like a picture, buttoned up in that black velvet jacket, its rich darkness such a foil to her fair face and shining golden hair.

  24. A stalwart gentleman, buttoned up in a great-coat, with a young lady on his aim, strode in.

  25. The newly-lighted street-lamps blinked dismally through the wet fog, and the pedestrians hurried along, poising umbrellas, and buttoned up to the chin.

  26. Captain Burke shook himself, pulled his cap to the front of his head, arranged his coat properly and buttoned it up, and began to give orders.

  27. Robinson's ID fell beside the tank and Zinc brushed off sand and stuck it inside Robinson's torn shirt and buttoned the shirt over the crushed leather.

  28. He felt cold and buttoned his shirt and zippered his jacket and licked his lips and listened: was Landel shouting?

  29. The sweater had been a favorite: he shook it out, slipped it on slowly, buttoned it, felt in the pockets.

  30. I looked as trim and as genteel as could be in it--when it was buttoned over tight it seemed to me that I warn't bigger round than a quart cup.

  31. The tall man in whiskers put the bills in his trousers' pocket, buttoned it up tight, then give the pocket a leetle slap and was a going out agin.

  32. The only coat which the good Blanquette has preserved is the pearl-buttoned velveteen jacket in which I fiddled away so many happy hours.

  33. With his unkempt beard and swarthy face and ridiculous pearl-buttoned velveteens, there was an air of rakish picturesqueness about Paragot, and he retained, what indeed he never quite lost, a certain aristocracy of demeanour.

  34. But these took the humble place of mere accessories to the Enchanted Garden, jealously guarded against Asticot by great high gilded railings and by blue-coated, silver-buttoned functionaries at the gates.

  35. He wore a villainously fitting frock coat buttoned across his chest, with long wrinkly creases stretching horizontally from each button.

  36. Presently Blanquette emerged laden with zither case and fiddle and little grey valise and the pearl-buttoned suit which was slung over one arm.

  37. And yet this boy would have buttoned under his jacket an entire round pumpkin-pie.

  38. Mr. Mavick arose when his visitor stood at his desk, buttoned up his frock-coat, and extended his hand with a show of business cordiality, and motioned him to a chair.

  39. His coat close buttoned to his throat, and an extra silk handkerchief around his neck, which he removed only after he entered the apartment, immediately arrested the attention of Charlotte Henly.

  40. Arkansas was the first of the prisoners to be called--the reason for which priority, as Tom afterwards guessed, being his anomalous face that would not have ill-suited a vest that buttoned to the chin and a collar that buttoned at the back.

  41. The sheet of paper was buttoned tightly in his coat, but all the time his brain was reading a few jerky phrases in the detail-packed report.

  42. Their coats were buttoned to their chins to keep out the February wind; their hands were in big, shiny gloves; their blue and brown overalls, from the handling of painted iron, had the surface and polish of leather.

  43. The buttons of his waistcoat were sixpences; and the knees of his small-clothes were buttoned with silver threepences.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "buttoned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.