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Example sentences for "trousered"

Lexicographically close words:
trouncing; troupe; troupes; trous; trouser; trousers; trousies; trousseau; trousseaux; trout
  1. The frank, intent gaze of these eyes was very flattering and, in its ultimate effect, perilous, since it led you fatuously to believe that she had forgotten there were any other trousered beings extant.

  2. A young man in French fireman's uniform seemed to be very active, and an old trousered woman passively rolled down the steps after receiving a box on the ears.

  3. But the next minute a balloon-trousered child rushed up to us and tugged at Jan's coat.

  4. We had a hurried glimpse of queer-shaped, many-coloured houses, trousered women, and a general Turkishness.

  5. Here are Turks too: ladies in veil and trousers, and trousered kiddies with clothes of orange, yellow and purple.

  6. We go about in single file, perched on the saddles upon their humped backs, each horse led by the owner, usually a trousered peasant girl.

  7. With one hand she grasped a skinny child dressed in flannel night garments of Macgregor tartan, with the other she held up her draggling petticoats and salaamed profusely, thus displaying a pair of bandy, blue-trousered legs.

  8. The Hindu pig will take it, seeing it is better than having the yellow-trousered ones[3] set on him as a receiver of stolen goods.

  9. But The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is a book to be read by any who want an insight into the conditions of working-class life at its average, with its virtues, its vices, its courage, its intolerable piteous anxieties.

  10. It was not unlike the entrance to any other provincial city in ordinary times, save that there were many red-trousered men mixed in with the other population.

  11. At that same moment we saw the white-trousered gendarme hastening towards the town hall.

  12. There were now five of the red-trousered little police soldiers after him, and things began to look very lively for Billy.

  13. He could see a group of men too, each as big-hatted and shaggy-trousered as this one who still had him about his middle.

  14. The old idea also has passed that measures a girl's popular success by the number of trousered figures around her.

  15. She must catch a fly, meaning a trousered companion, so as not to be left in placarded disgrace; and having caught him she must hang on to him until another takes his place.

  16. He perceived trousered legs, four of them, and, cocking his eye upwards, saw that two men of the lower orders stood before him.

  17. You came hither, trousered and shameless, to save these hare-brained traitors!

  18. Down the steep flight a veiled, trousered woman is waddling, her immense pantaloons waggling awkwardly as she descends.

  19. In return for this the regiment considers the Jardin Public its own private property, and on Sundays that wonderful garden, with its wealth of foliage and flowers, is the scene of a red-trousered invasion.

  20. The possession of a few francs made an enormous difference and created in the midst of the Legion's red-trousered equality the finest social grades and distinctions.

  21. As our motor drew up before a gate similar to Doeberitz, we were put into a light mood by the spectacle of a baggy, red-trousered Frenchman balancing himself on a little box and nailing a gap in the wall of his own prison.

  22. I saw the front door open, and down the terrace there shuffled a squad of baggy red-trousered French prisoners with their watchful guards.

  23. Presumably the gown was tucked and ruched and appliquéd, and had been subjected to other processes past the comprehension of trousered humanity; it was certainly becoming.

  24. Now in retrospect he, without being able to explain his reason to himself, identified Mr. Neech with that statue of the trousered boy in Christchurch Priory, and not merely Mr. Neech but even The Ingoldsby Legends as well.

  25. Without the existence of the trousered boy Michael would scarcely have believed in the reality of those stone ladies and carved knights.

  26. Michael sympathized with the trousered boy whom Flaxman, contrary to every canon, might almost be said to have perpetrated.

  27. He decided that he only liked the trousered boy because the figure gave him sentimental pleasure, and he was sure that true classical art was not sentimental.

  28. A number of red objects in the distance proved, as we drew nearer, to be a company of red-trousered French soldiers washing their linen in the stream.

  29. Not having luggage to be examined, we fearlessly passed the red-trousered custom officials in the building and crossed the busy docks to the carriages in waiting.

  30. By night the Zouaves were hurried to Senlis in taxi-cabs, and almost before the brakes had been applied these swarthy, baggy-trousered warriors were falling furiously on the surprised Germans.

  31. One morning Senlis was filled with the blue-coated, red-trousered soldiers of France.

  32. Immediately the crimson face, the white-trousered legs, the round stomach, and even the gouty toe, were surrounded in my imagination with a romantic halo.

  33. He sighed, and the sigh appeared to pass in the form of a tremor through his white-trousered legs.

  34. The first object that caught the general's eye as he slowly turned into the square by the little station was their four red-trousered legs--then he caught the glint of their two brass trombones.

  35. Both of these red-eared, red-trousered dispensers of harmony are perfect in deportment, and as quiet as mice.

  36. Houses, barns and cow-sheds are filled by night with the red-trousered infantry of the French République.

  37. The daylight train, followed rapidly by four extra sections, had cleared Pont du Sable of all but two of the red-trousered infantry--my trombonists!

  38. As Crass flung this bombshell into the Socialist camp, the miserable, ragged-trousered crew around him could scarce forbear a cheer; but the more intelligent part of the audience only laughed.

  39. The ragged-trousered Tory workmen as they loitered about the streets, their stomachs empty, said to each other that it was a great honour for Mugsborough that their Member should be promoted in this way.

  40. Chapter 43 The Good Old Summer-time All through the summer the crowd of ragged-trousered philanthropists continued to toil and sweat at their noble and unselfish task of making money for Mr Rushton.


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