trousers
IPA: trˈaʊzɝz
noun
- An article of clothing that covers the part of the body between the waist and the ankles or knees, and is divided into a separate part for each leg.
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Examples of "trousers" in Sentences
- Having no trousers is a problem, since they seem to be de rigeur here, except for old ladies.
- They already make shirts and trousers from the new fibre and in the Spring, jeans will be put on the market.
- But instead, he just slipped out of an igloo on a cold Arctic night, pulled down his caribou and sealskin trousers, and defecated into his hand.
- These pumps have been around for years and as winter rolls in, the only way to wear them under trousers is in the darker colors (slightly scuffed), with opaque tights.
- Nowadays, leading clubs search for players who are still in short trousers, such as Manchester United's signing of Gyliano van Velzen, a 16-year-old from the Netherlands, on a free transfer last month.
- Then, suddenly, he -- for it was a man -- swayed back, with a hitch to his skin trousers, and began to sing a chanty, such as men lift when they swing around the capstan circle and the sea snorts in their ears:
- It's a century which is deceptively familiar - nineteenth century English is much the same as today's, after all, and the men have the common decency to run around in trousers - but also more alien than the far side of the Moon.
- To school plodding stubbornly through the snowdrifts in short trousers with chapped knees to sit in a draughty classroom in abject fear of a teacher who had recently traversed Europe inside a tank turret and who took no prisoners with his booming voice, the result of his deafness.
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