plaid

Example Sentences

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At a Sacramento stop Friday, he bounded around chatting with about four dozen mostly union supporters, wearing trademark Nikes, this time a vintage pair with a tartan plaid swoop.

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 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

Uncle Arthur had grown a grizzly beard and was wearing a plaid flannel work shirt with paint-splattered jeans.

From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser