plaid
Example Sentences
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Mr. Berrycloth climbs out in his plaid jacket, patting down piles of windblown hair.
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“See the man in the green plaid pants? The one with the cane in the second row.”
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The door was ajar, and the sight of his bed with the red plaid sheets and the New York Jets pillow he and Tom had gotten after a game immediately made him relax.
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She laid the red skirt from her fortune-teller costume into her basket, along with some pretty plaid material she was reworking into a new gown.
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There are also many things it isn’t: no bright green garlands, no mixing of plaids in the same room, and no gift bags under the tree.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.