COLLAR in a Sentence

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178 example sentences for COLLAR, such as:

1. Hang your coat up by the tab on the collar.
2. The high collar used to chafe against my neck.
3. Blood from his torn ear was soaking his collar.
4. The collar on my coat has worn thin,so I must patch it.
5. If it hasn't splintered his collar bone it's not so serious.

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 Meanings and Examples of COLLAR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
collar
 n.  a band that fits around the neck and is usually folded over
Classic Sentence: (170 in 12 pages)
1  Andrew Hale was a ruddy man with a big gray moustache and a stubbly double-chin unconstrained by a collar; but his scrupulously clean shirt was always fastened by a small diamond stud.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  The black bombazine, with its puffed sleeves and princess lace collar, set off her white skin superbly, but it did make her look a trifle elderly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
3  "And breaks a collar bone like a man," said Gerald.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
4  If she could only be rid of her tight stays, the collar that choked her and the slippers still full of sand and gravel that blistered her feet.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
5  She patted her cheeks, felt frantically at her collar bones, feeling them stand out through her basque.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
6  If it hasn't splintered his collar bone it's not so serious.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
7  She buttoned her black basque up to the chin and pinned down the collar with Pittypat's mourning brooch.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
8  She saw that he was coatless and his cravat hung down on either side of his open collar.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
9  Lily sat down on one of the plush and rosewood sofas, and he deposited himself in a rocking-chair draped with a starched antimacassar which scraped unpleasantly against the pink fold of skin above his collar.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
10  A man in cuffless shirt-sleeves with pink arm-garters, wearing a linen collar but no tie, yawned his way from Dyer's Drug Store across to the hotel.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
11  Her ears and nose were pinched; her breath frosted her collar; her fingers ached.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
12  She tried to evolve a philosophy which would explain why Kennicott could never tie his scarf so that it would reach the top of the gap in his turn-down collar.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
13  Whether she wore a low middy collar or dressed reticently for school in a black suit with a high-necked blouse, she was airy, flippant.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
14  She seized the rouge sponge, daubed her cheeks, scratched at her lips with the vermilion pencil until they stung, tore open her collar.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
15  Carol drew the collar of her middy blouse over her bare throat.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
Example Sentence:
1  Blood from his torn ear was soaking his collar.
2  But for the sheer number of performances, there has been nothing to compare with the serial trials of white collar criminals.
3  Hang your coat up by the tab on the collar.
4  The collar was embroidered with very small red strawberries.
5  The collar on my coat has worn thin,so I must patch it.
6  The high collar used to chafe against my neck.
7  Mr. Palmer is now wanted by Zimbabwe officials on poaching charges. He killed a prized lion outfitted with a GPS collar in Hwange National Park.
8  Flotation collars are used to buoy space capsules that land in the sea.