Example Sentences

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A soft-spoken elderly man with a white beard and a suède porkpie hat, he works out of a windowless shed with rough plaster walls.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 18, 2016

The sandal had the familiar chunky cork base and thick, buckled straps in dull brown-gray suède, but the insole and the straps were lined with fluffy white shearling.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 16, 2015

“Are you steady?” he asked, and when I said yes—despite the suède shoes—he did not offer his arm.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 20, 2012

And a coat—a coat that resembled her mother’s red suède coat but was filthy and torn.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 22, 2010

Everything about this lady was black, from her shoes of suède to the hat that she had discarded; lusterless black covered her to her bare throat.

From The Woman in Black by Bentley, E. C. (Edmund Clerihew)