How to Use epaulet in a Sentence

epaulet

noun

• The uniforms had epaulets, braids, the whole nine yards.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 15 Feb. 2018
• But the impact of what the witness wore didn’t come solely from the golden epaulets and shiny buttons and medals.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2019
• Clarke’s four-star epaulets are standard for a chief of police or sheriff.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 26 May 2017
• A man wearing a dark green uniform, red epaulets, and dark sunglasses emerged.
  — Rebecca Boyle, The Atlantic, 17 Aug. 2017
• None has any money—or any epaulets, in the case of one questionable officer.
  — Dan Hofstadter, WSJ, 25 May 2018
• Outlier, a New York brand, makes perhaps the most minimal trench of the bunch—an epaulet-free, belt-free coat that swaps buttons for snaps.
  — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2018
• British ship engineers wear purple stripes on their epaulets.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 10 May 2020
• Earlier in his tenure, Bradshaw wore an epaulet on each shoulder, with five stars on each.
  — Anthony Man, sun-sentinel.com, 14 Oct. 2019
• Some chefs brandish their accolades like striped epaulets.
  — Jason Tesauro, Esquire, 7 Dec. 2017
• Its various elements — the lapels, epaulets, belt — were misplaced and reworked.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2020
• On his eighth birthday, he was presented with a general's uniform, complete with gold buttons and epaulets and things.
  — CBS News, 19 June 2019
• Railway employees are supposed to wear crisp, white Myanmar Railways shirts with epaulets.
  — Photographs and Text By Adam Dean, New York Times, 12 June 2017
• There are the epaulets Hamilton wore after receiving a promotion.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 27 June 2018
• Just throw on this jacket, with awesome dropped shoulders, biker epaulet detail, and asymmetric zips.
  — Lucy Wood, Marie Claire, 6 Mar. 2019
• Hosting duties are handled by epaulet owning martinet and editor in chief Tony Quiroga.
  — John Pearley Huffman, Car and Driver, 30 June 2022
• Dressed in a blue frock coat and epaulets with three stars on the shoulders, a black slouch hat and carrying a cigar, the Kenosha man looks like the general who led Union troops to victory and became America's 18th president.
  — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 May 2018
• Queen Angela's escort was smartly dressed in regimental blue, with gold epaulets befitting high rank and renown, and the queen's train required four attendants.
  — Michael Dumas, AL.com, 7 Feb. 2018
• The pictures show Charlotte, dressed in grey tights and a checkered smock dress with floppy epaulets, carrying bags of groceries, placing them in boxes and standing at someone's door ready to deliver.
  — Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 1 May 2020
• The pièce de résistance: a veritable chandelier of crystal strands across her neckline, which also accented her shoulders as epaulets and draped down her back.
  — Carrie Goldberg, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 Mar. 2018
• Most mannequins were outfitted in supple (and seriously expensive) deerskin loafers; raincoats also came with deerskin epaulets (actual rain be damned).
  — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 18 June 2018

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024