plaid

Example Sentences

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The red, white and grey plaid shorts have become iconic in tennis circles, and the surviving pairs have found good homes.

From BBC • May 25, 2026

I also made a pleated plaid skirt—this must have been a school project, as I recall no love for it—and my father said, “You shouldn’t wear plaid. It makes you look broad in the beam.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 2, 2025

David, new, in the plaid pants, didn’t have a Signal name yet.

From Slate • Oct. 27, 2025

That refinisher’s name was Butch Crane, but Moore liked to call him Elmer Fudd after Bugs Bunny’s antagonist from Looney Tunes: “Bald, kind of chunky, wore the red plaid flannels.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 16, 2025

I opened the door and a slender, blond, typical thirteen-year-old American boy dressed in a plaid woolen shirt, corduroy trousers, and black-and-white sneakers, said simply: “I’m Bobby Fischer.”

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady