school tie

Example Sentences

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This is the uniform seen in her frequent self-portraits, and is by now as familiar as Joseph Beuys’s vest and hat or Andy Warhol’s navy blazer and school tie.

From New York Times • Sep. 5, 2018

Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter books that spawned the movies and Orlando theme park, tweeted a picture of Vielma in a Hogwarts school tie, and said: “I can’t stop crying.”

From Seattle Times • Jun. 13, 2016

With her two Oxford blues for rowing, it would be easy to see the loyalist MP as part of the old school tie club that unites so many of the cabinet.

From The Guardian • May 27, 2012

A book published that year, War Propaganda and U.S., noted: "To many upper-class Americans there was nothing so thrilling as having an Englishman around the house, complete with Oxford accent, school tie, and bumbershoot."

From Slate • Nov. 4, 2011

“That sounds like what Kumu Whitman’s memory did for me,” I say, thinking of what happened when I held his school tie.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila