gray flannel
Example Sentences
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At the same time, the middle managers, the men in the gray flannel suits, on occasion they got doses of rhetoric that the Cultural Revolution would've been proud of.
From Salon • Apr. 26, 2025
And the time on one of my first flights when a tomato sailed off my tongs as I tossed a salad and landed in the gray flannel lap of a businessman seated in 2D.
From Salon • Jun. 25, 2022
Quarterback Kyler Murray is so gifted and unconventional that he makes Lamar Jackson look like a man in a gray flannel suit.
From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2020
A generic gray flannel suit epitomized the tradition-bound 1950s.
From Washington Post • Jan. 12, 2019
On my right there was this very Joe Yale-looking guy, in a gray flannel suit and one of those flitty-looking Tattersall vests.
From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger
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