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
Even the neatest gray flannel shift had a hunk of hairy shearling flapping down one leg.
From New York Times • Mar. 6, 2022
A pottery bowl of quince on a kitchen table, waiting to be cooked, is an antidote to the gray flannel days in late fall.
From Washington Post • Oct. 20, 2021
As the freshmen of 1933 flailed at their oars in the first few days, Tom Bolles and Al Ulbrickson strode up and down Old Nero’s walkway in gray flannel suits and fedoras.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
