button down
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We gave each one of them moments that I remembered from growing up — rugby pads, rugby shirts or the polo shirts or that one look with the button down collar and the vest.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2023
“Everybody needs to stop hitting that panic button down there.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2022
A white, short-sleeved button down top decorated with red poppy flowers screams in the center.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2022
To take a series of photos, you can hold the capture button down or take the shots individually, and as you do, you’ll want to slowly move around the object to take various shots.
From The Verge ● Apr. 4, 2022
Once, after my dad caught an earful of their conversation, he rushed over to the phone base and stabbed the button down with his finger to disconnect the call.
From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez
How could it be that the elf in a button-down shirt now looked like someone’s cool bisexual cousin!
From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2026
He stopped by the birthday party wearing his work uniform: a white, button-down shirt and black slacks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
You’d think that the night was done by the time he returns to the stage, soaking wet, having discarded the vest he wears over his white button-down shirt.
From Salon ● May 28, 2026
Eugene Levert, chain-smoking next to a stack of books while wearing a vertical blue-striped button-down and khaki slacks, looked the scholarly mirror of Doug Lamplugh, in a horizontal blue-striped polo and khaki shorts.
From Slate ● May 4, 2026
He wears stuff like maroon capes and turquoise slacks, or stiff-collared button-down shirts with pinstripes.
From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper
