lapel

Example Sentences

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Angry, the 60-year-old cannot come to terms with the loss of her daughter Annalee, a little blonde girl in a cowboy hat whose smile lights up the pin attached to the lapel of her jacket.

From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026

Its members of parliament have taken to wearing a golden noose-shaped lapel pin.

From BBC • Jan. 31, 2026

Someone knelt down and clipped a microphone to her lapel, a few inches from the crucifix that dangled from her neck.

From Slate • Jun. 25, 2025

He has been but a speck of lint on the Lakers’ lapel, a bit of dust at the end of the Lakers’ bench, a small and irrelevant bystander in the Lakers’ long and arduous journey.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2025

He wore a deep red Marvellian mantle, the black lapel covered in all sorts of mastery pins that Ella couldn't wait to ask him questions about.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton