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

And at Agnona, Simon Holloway wrapped and layered and enveloped in camel cashmere and cream shearling, gray flannel and ebony double-face wool.

From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2020

A generic gray flannel suit epitomized the tradition-bound 1950s.

From Washington Post • Jan. 12, 2019

"No kidding, you gonna use your hound's-tooth tonight or not? I spilled some crap all over my gray flannel."

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger