How to Use hot pants in a Sentence

hot pants

plural noun
  • The sun is out in Milan, and so are midriff-baring crop tops and hot pants.
    Acielle / Style Du Monde, Vogue, 17 June 2022
  • The lace hot pants, fishnet skirt, sheer stockings and…okay, those shoes with the cutout heart?
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 3 May 2022
  • Here, servers don’t wear orange hot pants and low-cut tank tops.
    Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 24 Feb. 2021
  • Wear red-white-and-blue shirts, red-white-and-blue baseball caps, and red-white-and-blue hot pants.
    Yascha Mounk, Slate Magazine, 9 Feb. 2017
  • For the girl who likes to flaunt it, there's the classic hot pant—short shorts for those who have legs, and know how to use them.
    Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Jan. 2019
  • Her trick to pulling off the trend: wearing tiny high-rise hot pants instead.
    Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Brown took the stage in a pair of red cowboy boots and a matching top, jacket and a pair of hot pants.
    Marissa G. Muller, Peoplemag, 5 May 2023
  • Kendall completed the outfit with white hot pants and a sleek pair of black leather loafers from The Row.
    Alex Kessler, Vogue, 1 July 2023
  • In the photos, Fox posed in sparkling hot pants and a tight bikini top that sparked the discussion.
    Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Once the weather starts to warm up, expect to see barely-there shorts and hot pants take over.
    Sarah Boyd, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2023
  • If only hot pants in high places alliances weren’t so tricky.
    Minerva, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Oct. 2017
  • As a ring girl in black hot pants parades the Round Three card to the crowd, Valenzuela implores Manuel to stop lunging in.
    Ben Wyatt, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2023
  • Indeed, this appeared to be the first pair of hot pants in the history of the Oscars red carpet.
    Rory Satran, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Tiny Shorts The mercury isn’t the only thing rising; hot pants are still going strong.
    Irene Kim, Vogue, 31 July 2024
  • Underneath the dress’ sheer skirt, Kravitz wore black high-waisted hot pants.
    Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Some of her other items, like the miniskirt and short shorts known as hot pants, were unabashedly provocative.
    Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Monet X Change comes in sweeping the floor dressed as a janitor, which gives way to sparkling hot pants.
    Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Not hot pants, but short Watchdog items about matters that may affect your life.
    Dallas News, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Think: hot pants over cardigans; bare torsos instead of twee brooches.
    Alice Newbold, Vogue, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Kathleen Renda: Dust off those disco eight-tracks and hot pants.
    Kathleen Renda, House Beautiful, 5 Mar. 2018
  • Margot Robbie’s Sharon Tate is also along for the ride, dressed in a python trench coat, yellow hot pants, and knee-high white gogo boots.
    Brooke Bobb, Vogue, 24 July 2019
  • At the same time that Hari Nef was basking in the sun in a red checkered blazer, Kylie Jenner was rocking that same hue with a pair of hot pants.
    Alyssa Hardy, Teen Vogue, 11 Mar. 2019
  • Like soul singer Rufus Thomas, performing in pink hot pants.
    Rj Smith, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2022
  • She’s wearing a halter and hot pants and sitting between two hirsute guys with big hair and beards.
    Zadie Smith, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2022
  • Kim Kardashian West and Miley Cyrus have stepped out in sequined flag hot pants.
    Cindy Dampier, chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2018
  • But there were also hot pants over sheer logo tights and cropped white cotton dickeys.
    Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2020
  • In her multi-color canvas jacket and matching hot pants, the star was in her element and right on time to join the fun.
    Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 15 Apr. 2021
  • And 1972 heralded the arrival of the Golden Girls, goodwill ambassadors decked out in gold-and-white hot pants.
    From Express-News Archives, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Feb. 2018
  • For that look, Banks took a bit more creative license, forgoing Spears' glittery hot pants for a long green skirt.
    Dan Heching, PEOPLE.com, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Initially shrouded by a sea of bright pink feathers, Gaga teased the audience before appearing in a black bustier and hot pants, in a costume designed by Dior.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 26 July 2024

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