How to Use zoot suit in a Sentence

zoot suit

noun

• 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
• The zoot suit and wallet chain became the new mohawk and combat boots.
  — Kenneth Partridge, Billboard, 29 May 2018
• The place had been there for 91 years, selling everything from Catholic school uniforms to zoot suits.
  — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 28 Dec. 2019
• David Weathers sported a shiny silver zoot suit right out of the Roaring '20s.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 June 2018
• 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
• But before there were cholos and cholas, there were zoot suit-wearing pachucos and pachucas.
  — Thalía Henao, Allure, 3 May 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The zoot suit-sporting pachucos of Chicano lore originated in El Paso.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024