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Example sentences for "gabardine"

Lexicographically close words:
gaa; gaan; gaat; gab; gabardines; gabbing; gabble; gabbled; gabbling
  1. For he wore loose, waist-high leggings strapped at the ankles, and a belted gabardine of thin light brown material, while a cap with an upturned brim and ear-flaps dangled from his sunburnt hand.

  2. A glance at the proffered pasteboard had dyed the inventor flaming scarlet from the collar of his dusty gabardine to the edges of his goggled cap.

  3. So the young Mercury in gabardine and overalls was a professional, a teacher; a pilot who helped men to qualify for the certificate given by the Royal Aero Club without breaking too many bones.

  4. As Sherbrand spoke, he drew a white handkerchief from the sleeve of his gabardine and wiped from the corners of his mouth some little blobs of foam, slightly bloodstained.

  5. Simon passed his hand roughly over him and felt a fat clean-shaven face, and a cloth gabardine which hung to the ankles.

  6. With the gray gabardine drawn but loosely over his silken suit, so that he might, if need be, easily slip from it, Otto von Arkell boldly entered the inclosure.

  7. They are compelled to wear one costume--a long black gabardine and a black skull-cap.

  8. I recollect that when you arrived you wore a gabardine of the colour of flies' wings, very well made, and a scarf of a very pretty sky blue.

  9. He waited by the steps for a few moments until a scullion in long gabardine came down and dipped his bucket in the swift current.

  10. Look alive, then," said Dick; and he forthwith took from beneath his gabardine several small parcels done up in brown paper.

  11. Now, Bill, out with the bingo," said the man in the gabardine to his companion.

  12. One wore a gabardine and coarse leather gaiters, with laced-up boots; the other had on a fustian shooting-jacket and long corduroy trousers.

  13. He smelled of lotion and he was now dressed in a relatively conservative gabardine of forest green with a lavender shirt and a black knitted tie.

  14. He reached into the side pocket of the gabardine for his cigarette case.

  15. Outside all other garments the burberry gabardine was worn.

  16. Burberry gabardine was found to possess all these properties, and two complete suits were made up for each man.

  17. For nigh half a century the old man had lived in England in his gabardine, and now that he was departing to die in gabardine lands, he was compelled to seek naturalization as a voluntary Englishman!

  18. And, looking into the future with the ambitious eye of conscious cleverness, he saw the paternal gabardine over-glooming his life.


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