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Example sentences for "dress suit"

  • I would but the devil take it, how can a man go around asking for a job in a dress suit?

  • And if he's going to wear a dress suit, if he insists upon wearing a dress suit, why doesn't he press his pants?

  • Farewell, my bluebell, farewell to thee," sang the captain as the iron crept cautiously over the great trouser leg of his Gargantuan full-dress suit.

  • Not a blooming thing left but this--a full-dress suit beginning to shine a bit in the rear.

  • Whadja mean by wasting your savings on a dress suit?

  • Am I mistaken in assuming that you were wearing a dress suit?

  • I suggested that if he wore a dress suit it would be either too large or too small.

  • If he wears a dress suit, it is sure to pucker across the shoulders, be short in the sleeves, and generally wrinkled.

  • I ain't supposed to wear a dress suit in to breakfast, am I?

  • As long as I'm gonna be a movie actor," says Delancey, "do I get a dress suit to wear?

  • It was nothin' for him to save a maiden in distress from a sinkin' ship and the next second appear in a lifeboat with a dress suit on, rowin' for shore.

  • I took Alex in my boudoir and while I'm gettin' in the banquet uneyform, he takes a thing that was a cross between a tuxedo and a dress suit out of his bag and dolls up.

  • Many's the time I've loaned my dress suit to drape over some green young Chi Yi, so that the annual picture could show an unbroken row of open-faced vests.

  • And so he dawdled on with us at the chapter house, gulping down Livy, getting a strangle hold on Homer, and pulling in six or seven dollars a week at his frivolous laundry job, some of which cash he was saving up for a dress suit.

  • Then I knew that Petey was going to win my dress suit.

  • Frank was no Croesus those days and I've seen him go bail for fifteen students at one hundred dollars apiece, when his total assets amounted to a dress suit, three hundred and forty-five photographs and his next week's salary.

  • This mysterious individual was garbed in a dress suit of solemn black.

  • As Pierre, in a dress suit, Jeanne still had work to do.

  • A white necktie should not be worn except with a full-dress suit, save by clergymen and a few elderly men who never wear any other color.

  • A gentleman wears a dress suit at dinner.

  • I am really very sorry," Tavernake interposed, "but I do not possess a dress suit.

  • I was thinking of those days in London; I was thinking of Beatrice's horror when she discovered that I was wearing ready-made clothes, and the amazement of Elizabeth when she found that I hadn't a dress suit.

  • Duffy stamp wad be nae use for a bazaar, even wi' a dress suit on and his face washed.

  • He will seldom, if ever, have occasion for a dress suit at a week-end visit in summer.

  • Tis true, the practice of wearing such a suit occasions additional expense, as otherwise a business suit, or walking suit, and a dress suit may be made to serve all occasions.

  • The regulation "bow" is the only "deference" that gracefully combines with a dress suit.

  • At any hour after six o'clock, a man may with propriety appear anywhere in a dress suit, though it is required only on formal occasions.

  • Now it was lifted, and without a forerunner of hint the man stood there before him in the flesh, smiling and talking of a dress suit!


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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