Example Sentences

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As we walked back to Holst’s office, we passed a display, for children, that arranged suède gloves, a shaving brush, and a salami against silhouettes of their source animals.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 8, 2017

He cultivated a new look: paisley shirts, drainpipe jeans, black suède winklepickers.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 18, 2016

Involuntarily, I glanced down at Benech’s shoes: exquisite tobacco-brown suède loafers, almost pantoufles, decorated with an explosion of pompons.

From The New Yorker • May 30, 2015

Last fall, a shearling-lined Boston, in slate-blue suède, appeared in stores.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 16, 2015

From her grey silk stockings and suède shoes to the little smart blue hat which sat so prettily on her hair, she was, as Millicent Splay would have admitted, really dressed.

From The Summons by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)