How to Use tweedy in a Sentence

tweedy

adjective
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  • The fabric is a tweedy blend of wool and mohair.
  • These tweedy items can be found in sheath silhouettes, fit-and-flare styles or loose shifts — find the shape that works for you.
    — Sharon Graubard, courant.com, 15 Aug. 2019
  • An ultra-fluffy jacket and scarf and a tweedy handbag are the perfect foils for this high-shine suit.
    — Krystin Arneson, Glamour, 3 Dec. 2019
  • If this were a tweedy English mystery, the magician’s body would wash up on shore on the last day of summer.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2020
  • Also taking cues from bygone eras were the Beckham men, who kept things slick in tweedy top coats.
    — Edward Barsamian, Vogue, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Two of the flyest brands in menswear right now, The Gigi and Larose Paris, have teamed up to make a collection of tweedy fall caps, beanies, and bucket hats.
    — Samuel Hine, GQ, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Yet Jim’s tweedy jackets and bow ties contrasted with a bawdy wit and a brashness that served him well in the scrimmages of his working life.
    — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2019
  • Miley was even more glam-punk in a glittery, tweedy jacket, ripped black pants with black boots, and tons of chunky jewelry.
    — Katherine J. Igoe, Marie Claire, 7 June 2019
  • This long cardigan is made of a blend of cotton and nylon with a tweedy texture that gives it a luxurious feel.
    — Banu Ibrahim, CNN Underscored, 27 Dec. 2019
  • Logan never lets his guard down, even in the sun—his sun hat is wool, from Walker Slater, a tweedy, posh haberdasher from Scotland.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2019
  • The results are 16-pieces that fill that cool-girl void in your closet, think gamine blouses, tweedy minis, boyish jackets and louche ankle booties—in leopard or rich caramel leather.
    — Kerry Pieri, Marie Claire, 21 Oct. 2014
  • In England, that tweedy violation has sparked a level of debate that would erupt in America if the World Series ended in a tie.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Her brand, Temellini, has recently launched an all-dog fashion line, Dog-à-Porter, and Ulisse’s tweedy-looking cape seems like just the thing for these chilly winter afternoons.
    — Moira MacDonald, The Seattle Times, 21 Jan. 2018
  • Its top editors have tended to be tweedy, clubbable figures who slip between academia and the upper reaches of journalism.
    — New York Times, 26 May 2018
  • Kathleen Renda: How does a stable in Illinois end up resembling a tweedy gentleman's club?
    — Kathleen Renda, House Beautiful, 2 June 2017
  • On one of those perfect nights recently, the crowd is lovably Cantabrigian, equal parts tweedy and bohemian, sensibly shod.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2019
  • Grey patterned wallpaper, leather chairs and tweedy ottomans add up to a palette of dark, restful hues, with soft white linens on the comfortable bed providing a crisp counterpoint.
    — Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2017
  • Kate just had her first solo outing with Queen Elizabeth in a perfect work-appropriate tweedy outfit.
    — Katherine J. Igoe, Marie Claire, 28 Mar. 2019
  • Without having weighty origin stories, both brands pitched their products as scientific breakthroughs, more techy than tweedy.
    — Kyle Stock, Bloomberg.com, 11 July 2017
  • The party offered a tweedy, boozy image and tried to avoid the openly Islamophobic rhetoric common in other radical-right parties in Europe.
    — The Economist, 31 May 2018
  • To a jaundiced observer, golf debates must have all the obvious relevance of a couple of tweedy academics bickering over the best translation of Beowulf between draws on their pipes.
    — Eamon Lynch, Golfweek, 4 Feb. 2020
  • This year, there will be no tweedy lunch or face-to-face mentorship sessions, but Chanel and Tribeca Enterprises are committed to continuing the program 2020 style: virtually.
    — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Vera Farmiga plays Halston’s nose (a bit of creative license, as the real perfumer was a tweedy Frenchman), asking him to bring in three items that carry sensorial significance.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 15 May 2021
  • Nix, tweedy and bespectacled, is eventually brought down when undercover footage of him boasting of using bribery stings and blackmail on opposing candidates went public in 2018.
    — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2019
  • The occasion was the unveiling of American Affairs, a tweedy quarterly journal dedicated to giving intellectual heft and coherence to the amorphous ideology known, for lack of a better term, as Trumpism.
    — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2017
  • The conventional understanding has been that Breitbart editors shared that underlying bigotry but were clever enough to shroud their intentions in the obscurantist veneer of tweedy-sounding gibberish about Andrew Jackson.
    — Wil S. Hylton, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2017

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