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Example sentences for "civilian clothes"

  • We walked back down there, and another man joined us who identified himself as the deputy sheriff, who was in civilian clothes, and I guess this was 3 or 4 minutes after.

  • Two belonged to a lawyerish person in civilian clothes, with a bored expression, plus a moustache of dreamy proportions with which the owner constantly imitated a gentleman ringing for a drink.

  • Among the legionnaires who desert, the number of those who can escape in civilian clothes by the comparatively safe way of the railway and the Mediterranean boats is very small.

  • To open negotiations is very easy: the legionnaire simply addresses a passer-by in one of the little alleys and whispers to him that he knows of some one who would perhaps buy civilian clothes.

  • They discarded their uniforms and donned civilian clothes.

  • He was dressed in civilian clothes, and after exchanging a few words with the non-commissioned officer it became manifest that he had assumed charge of the party.

  • Then how do you explain your presence here, and in civilian clothes?

  • If in uniform, covered or uncovered, or in civilian clothes, uncovered, they shall salute at the first note of the Anthem, retaining the position of salute until the last note of the Anthem.

  • The one in civilian clothes, if you could call them that!

  • He was shot through the neck by a man in civilian clothes.

  • Then the other, the one obviously garbed in civilian clothes, turned slightly and the sunlight danced off a gun he held in his right hand.

  • In consequence, he had been allowed to buy a suit of civilian clothes in Cambrai.

  • When I was half-way across the space between the moat and the cottage, I saw on the main road on my left a large four-horse wagon with a knot of gesticulating men in civilian clothes.

  • The one difficulty remaining was a suit of civilian clothes for me.

  • As soon as he saw we were dressed in civilian clothes he began to wag his tail and make a fuss over us.

  • I jumped to the ground with my bundle of civilian clothes under my arm, and without waiting a moment I bent to kiss the ground for which I had suffered so much.

  • We dressed him in civilian clothes and he wandered about with me for several days while we waited until the uniform of an Austrian soldier was prepared for him.

  • Had we been dressed in civilian clothes we should have been less conspicuous, but if anyone were to see us in Italian uniforms, with our healthy appearance and clothes not badly worn, he might suspect us at once and spread the news.

  • He was middle-aged and dressed in civilian clothes.

  • The middle-aged man in civilian clothes, who was not more than a hundred feet away, turned almost as suddenly as the boy in Canadian khaki had turned and entered a cafe that he seemed about to pass.

  • Three men were in the room, one of them little more than a boy and in the khaki uniform of a soldier; the other two in civilian clothes.

  • After looking back two or three times, he became curious regarding the purpose of a middle-aged man in civilian clothes whom he had observed in front of the intelligence building as he came out of the main entrance.

  • Civilian clothes, and maps, compasses and various tools were the chief objects of interest to them.

  • How was I to get my pack, full of food, boots, civilian clothes, etc.

  • One day one of the American girls employed in the confidential file room of the American Embassy was slapped in the face until she cried, by a German in civilian clothes, because she was speaking English in the subway.

  • It was a terrible fight, for of course it was next to impossible for the soldiers to distinguish them, being all in civilian clothes so that they just had to doff their bandoliers and they could go about from house to house in safety.

  • In a great room to the right of the steps of the War Office a number of men in civilian clothes sit in gilded chairs with a strained look of expectancy, as though awaiting some message of fate.

  • There was a man to the side of me, to my right, that was in civilian clothes, and was a news reporter that had a microphone in his hand.

  • There was one person, but I couldn't tell you whether he was in civilian clothes or who they were or anything about it.

  • To tear off my rags, bathe, shave, and dress in a light suit of civilian clothes took me longer than usual, for I was a trifle lame.

  • Speed awoke with the trumpets, and stared at me where I knelt before the stove in my civilian clothes, strapping up my little packet.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "civilian clothes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    ancient writers; being seen; blind girl; civilian clothes; civilian life; civilian rule; cold water; controversy between; drove through; excellent thing; five miles from the; flour enough; greatly interested; left tackle; methyl orange; minor planets; naval operations; prose writer; saying nothing; sent the; split second; this family; various substances; violent earthquake