How to Use zoot suit in a Sentence
zoot suit
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LeBron James, the top pick that year, seems to have opted to rent a zoot suit for prom.
—Troy Patterson, The New Yorker, 26 June 2019
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The zoot suit and wallet chain became the new mohawk and combat boots.
—Kenneth Partridge, Billboard, 29 May 2018
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The place had been there for 91 years, selling everything from Catholic school uniforms to zoot suits.
—Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 28 Dec. 2019
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David Weathers sported a shiny silver zoot suit right out of the Roaring '20s.
—Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 June 2018
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From fringy flapper dresses, to white zoot suits, to ornate headwear…a good time was indeed had by all.
—Claire Goodman, Houston Chronicle, 22 Mar. 2020
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But before there were cholos and cholas, there were zoot suit-wearing pachucos and pachucas.
—Thalía Henao, Allure, 3 May 2022
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Like the sentiments that drove the zoot suit riots of 1943, black and brown women are not allowed to indulge in overabundance.
—Cate Young, Vox, 2 Aug. 2019
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From the January 1980 issue of Car and Driver. Hi there, this is us in our automotive zoot suit.
—Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 3 Mar. 2023
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Cab Calloway sported the infamous oversized zoot suit in the film, which was released during the same year that the Zoot Suit Riots occurred.
—Michaela Zee, Variety, 19 Aug. 2022
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An ancient gentleman in a brown zoot suit that might have been purchased in that cut’s heyday stepped creakily out of a Cadillac.
—Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 19 Oct. 2017
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Surrounded by a battalion of male dancers, all dressed in 1920s garb, JLo piruotted in wide white pants and a sparkly corsette that later gave way to a white zoot suit and matching hat.
—Leila Cobo, Billboard, 20 May 2018
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The zoot suit-sporting pachucos of Chicano lore originated in El Paso.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2019
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For several nights, the servicemen, mostly sailors, went looking for the zoot suiters, and at least once going after a Latino man who was not wearing a zoot suit.
—Patt Morrisoncolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2023
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Lee told Vogue red-carpet livestream cohost Ilana Glazer that her look meant to channel the zoot suit, voluminous menswear suiting that originated in Harlem in the mid-1930s.
—Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Sep. 2021
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The crowd wrapped around the funeral home was a cross section of El Paso — a mostly Hispanic group, young and old, dressed in suits and dresses, blue jeans and work shirts, zoot suits, motorcycle club colors, and military dress uniforms.
—Robert Moore, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2019
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