(n. pl.) A garment worn by men and boys, extending from the waist to the knee or to the ankle, and covering each leg separately.
Example Sentences:
(1) Today, she wears an elegant salmon-pink blouse with white trousers and a long, pale pink coat.
(2) Trousers were cropped or rolled at the ankle, a styling trick that is emerging as a trend across the shows.
(3) Forty-seven patients were brought to the Emergency Department with a good blood pressure which probably would not have existed without the use of MAST Trousers.
(4) The appearance of a band with lean, spiky songs, high cheekbones and excellent trousers was therefore the cause of considerable excitement, to which they mischievously alluded in the title of their debut album, Is This It.
(5) Anti-shock trousers should be widely used in cases of multiple trauma.
(6) One company, Ekso, makes robotic trousers that make it easier to carry a backpack.
(7) Girls loved him, his flouncy lace sleeves, tight trousers, big hats, curly hair.
(8) Shapiro, 50, said: "I always think of Steve Bell [of the Guardian] and his cartoons of John Major wearing his underpants outside his trousers.
(9) Nobody is sure what dangerous chemical imbalance this would create but the Fiver is convinced we'd all be dust come October or November, the earth scorched, with only three survivors roaming o'er the barren landscape: Govan's answer to King Lear, ranting into a hole in the ground; a mute, wild-eyed pundit, staring without blinking into a hole in the ground; and a tall, irritable figure standing in front of the pair of them, screaming in the style popularised by Klaus Kinski, demanding they take a look at his goddamn trouser arrangement, which he has balanced here on the platform of his hand for easy perusal, or to hell with them, for they are no better than pigs, worthless, spineless pigs.
(10) For 20 healthy volunteers the mean carotid sinus diameter was 5.7 mm supine, 6.1 mm in the Trendelenberg position, 6.5 mm after supine medical antishock trousers (MAST) inflation, 7.0 mm after MAST inflation in the Trendelenberg position, and 7.3 mm during a headstand.
(11) When the ice-cold water crept up the hollow of my neck, when my boots and trousers became as heavy as lead, it wasn't so bad that it stopped me from keeping up with the others.
(12) When I was little, I was a really girly girl who didn't like to wear trousers.
(13) It gives the impression of being all mouth and trousers.
(14) He took Jessica's mobile out of her pocket; he carried their bodies down the stairs and, after checking no one was around, bundled them into the cramped boot of his car, bending their legs to fit them in; he collected petrol and bin bags (to protect his feet and thus conceal evidence); he drove to Lakenheath and found a lonely track; he got out where the vegetation grew thickly and he rolled the two girls down into the ditch; he climbed into the ditch and cut off their clothing - their red football shirts and their tracksuit trousers, their knickers, Holly's black bra which she and her mother had bought the day before - and then he poured petrol over their bodies and threw on a match.
(15) High-waisted flared pleated silk trousers was the key shape, in colours Saint Laurent would have approved, such as like pumpkin orange, sea green and glowing fuchia.
(16) This carnival of camera phones, caressing and even groping (the waxen men do have "moulds" where their private parts would be so that their trousers hang properly, but no, nothing too realistic down there) is the celebrity world were we in control.
(17) Costs range from £50 to hire a one-button dinner jacket and trousers or £129 for a "prom package" of slim-fit suit plus shirt and tie.
(18) Then we cast a covert look at who else likes this new music, who else is at these gigs and what trousers they’re wearing… and we’re no longer sure we’re part of this gang.
(19) At Virgin Atlantic, trousers on women are rarely seen, although a spokeswoman said they could be provided for medical or religious requirements, with requests reviewed on a case by case basis.
(20) If your finest achievement is taking us to war, moving the party to the technocratic centre and coming to blows over what trousers Tony Blair should wear, then God help us.
Unmentionables
Definition:
(n. pl.) The breeches; trousers.
Example Sentences:
(1) The very possibility of a country leaving the single currency was so taboo as to be unmentionable as recently as a month ago.
(2) In silent dying rooms, hidden away in unmentionable and unseen places, thousands gasp out their last, their wishes ignored, unheard, their suffering unrecorded as death notices pretend they "passed away peacefully".
(3) They were very disappointed to discover that it was a fictional story, that the real people who inspired it hadn't fallen victim to any unmentionable disease - and, not least, that I was straight.
(4) Looming over all this is the great unmentionable: the cover the US provides for Israel's weapons of mass destruction.
(5) The Brontës are shown, with understated relish, as lonely, half-mad spinsters, surrounded by insufferable yokels and the unmentionable stench of death.
(6) King described these threats as either the "unimaginable and the unmentionable", but in the worst case there would be disorderly break-up of monetary union with disastrous consequences for the rest of the global economy.
(7) Assorted "wars", on terror, drugs, human traffickers or whatever will be lost and unmentionable horrors result.
(8) R is for religion "The great unmentionable evil at the centre of our culture is monotheism.
(9) The independent senator from Vermont is typically dismissed as a “ self-described socialist ” by those who doubt America’s appetite for policies seen as mainstream in much of the world but long-regarded as almost unmentionable in the land of the free.
(10) The great unmentionable is that humanity's most dangerous enemy resides across the Atlantic.
(11) The Note's screen is a mere 5 inch, an attempt to combine a phone and a tablet – with an "unmentionable" stylus.
(12) The book ran the full gambit of female unmentionables - menstruation, clitoral orgasm, frigidity - and transformed Lessing into an icon for women's liberation.
(13) On 24 April, a 70-year-old journalist, Gao Yu, was arrested, together with her son and four cats, for disclosing a party memorandum that listed seven "unmentionable topics" the press were told to avoid, including universal values, press freedom, citizens' rights and the party's historical aberrations.
(14) The great unmentionable in British politics (though frequently mentioned by me) is that the parties might have to form a government of national unity in such circumstances, to calm both the markets and the public mood.
(15) At the forefront of this recuperation was a new kind of aspirational history-writing – not a history written by and for rulers, but by a new kind of revisionist historian, such as Niall Ferguson or Andrew Roberts, who sought to legitimise the previously unmentionable, and in so doing to transform their approval of the imperial past into a form of present-day cultural capital, and forge their own careers in the process.
(16) Yet one subject that is unmentionable – and therefore untouchable – is the size of the NHS itself.
(17) The humor is quirky and filled with pop culture references (Gretchen works as a publicist for various awful celebrity types who trash photoshoots and tweet pictures of their unmentionables) and has a modern breeziness to it that you won’t find on any CBS sitcom.
(18) The Pentagon ranks it as a national security threat and, left unchecked, climate change is expected to cost the US economy billions of dollars every year – and yet it has proved the great unmentionable of this election campaign.
(19) Of course, an historic mercenary role is unmentionable, this time backing the latest US installed sectarian regime in Baghdad and re-branded ex-Kurdish “terrorists”, now guarding Chevron, Exxon Mobil, Marathon Oil, Hunt Oil et al.