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Example sentences for "buttonless"

Lexicographically close words:
buttonholed; buttonholes; buttonholing; buttonhook; buttoning; buttons; buttonwood; buttress; buttressed; buttresses
  1. At last he was caparisoned, in a heavy suit of flannel-lined Carberrys and a buttonless hooded jacket.

  2. The buttonless tunic with its Lancer plastron, the riding-breeches of ampler cut than the cavalryman's, the high spurless boots of supple brown leather, and the belt that carried a revolver and no sword.

  3. The men, whose evening costume consists of buttonless shirts and short canvas trousers, are more demonstrative than their partners.

  4. The whole procession terminates in a military band, composed of musicians whose hard work and little pay are exhibited in their uniforms, which are limited to buttonless shirts and brief unmentionables.

  5. Has that woman a call to be a wife, who sits reading the last new novel, while her husband stands before the glass, vainly trying to pin together a buttonless shirt-bosom?

  6. Here was a human shape, but so utterly buttonless that it exhibited not even a rag to which a button could by any earthly possibility be appended, buttonless even potentially; and my blameless Ethiopian presented arms to even this.

  7. As the young advocate of the rights and feelings of the dumb creation was ending his fiery discourse, the buttonless Tunker, himself a disciple of Pestalozzi, came into the school-grounds and read the meaning of the scene.

  8. I have never seen Lucy since, and my haggard features and buttonless coat testify that the swamp doctor is still a bachelor.

  9. To look at me now with my single bed, buttonless shirts, premature wigdom, and haggard old-bachelor looks, you would scarcely think I am or was ever an admirer of the sex.

  10. The woman's dress consists almost invariably of a close-fitting, buttonless jacket with red body and black sleeves.


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