How to Use tweedy in a Sentence

tweedy

adjective

• 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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