Example Sentences

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The finest moment belongs to Perry Como, who appears on a black-and-white console TV as the Plaids sing backup.

From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2015

Then, when he had picked up his hat, which was utterly ruined, and found his cane, which had flown across the street, his mahogany charmer in the Wagnerian Plaids had disappeared from view.

From The Woggle-Bug Book by Morgan, Ike

Plaids For a plaid effect, string the warp at regular intervals, with different colors.

From Hand-Loom Weaving A Manual for School and Home by Todd, Mattie Phipps

Plaids look becoming for tall women, as they shorten the appearance of the figure.

From American Woman's Home by Beecher, Catharine Esther

Plaids, snuff-boxes, walking-sticks, and, above all, axes I have in abundance.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, October 15th 1887 by Various