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Collar in sentence

209 examples of Collar in a sentence

The sagacious historian and politician Arturo Jauretche liked to say, "It's not about changing our collar; it's about ceasing to be a dog."
The first two options comprise jobs that we typically think of as “blue collar.”
Much of the second three options embody jobs that we typically think of as “white collar.”
It is worth remembering that most Trump voters were neither poor nor blue collar.
They urge America’s president-elect Barack Obama to pursue a “green revolution” with big investments in renewable energy, arguing that this could create millions of new “green collar” jobs and open huge new markets.
She did not turn, but her high frilled collar moved, rising to her pink little ear.
'You were wrong and so was I. I'll settle it all!'Having made it up with his wife he put on an olive-green overcoat with a velvet collar, and a hat, and went to the studio.
She was just the same as he had seen her in Moscow – the same stuff dress without collar or cuffs, and the same kindly, dull, pock-marked face, only somewhat stouter.
The invalid himself, washed and with his hair brushed, lay between clean sheets in a clean shirt, its white collar round his abnormally thin neck, gazing with a new look of hope at Kitty and not taking his eyes off her.
Koznyshev read the Act aloud, and began to explain its meaning, but a tall, thick-set, round-shouldered landowner with a dyed moustache, wearing a tight uniform the high collar of which squeezed up his neck at the back, interrupted him.
In three years he could not collect it,' – a short, round-shouldered landowner with pomaded hair that hung down on the embroidered collar of his uniform was saying energetically, stamping loudly with the heels of the new boots he had evidently put on specially for this occasion.
A short lean man, with hips like a woman's, knock-kneed, very pale, handsome, with beautiful shining eyes and long hair that hung over the collar of his frock-coat, stood at the opposite end of the room, looking at the portraits on the wall.
The horse-hair collar resisted; he had to apply both hands to the handle and hang on with all the weight of his body.
On top, the suit ended in a collar of threaded copper onto which the metal helmet was screwed.
Her neck stood out from a white turned-down collar.
Behind the door hung a cloak with a small collar, a bridle, and a black leather cap, and on the floor, in a corner, were a pair of leggings, still covered with dry mud.
He wore a black cloth waistcoat, a hair collar, grey trousers, and, all the year round, well-blacked boots, that had two parallel swellings due to the sticking out of his big-toes.
She wore a small blue silk necktie, that kept up like a ruff a gauffered cambric collar, and with the movements of her head the lower part of her face gently sunk into the linen or came out from it.
Then she put back the little girl, who had just been sick over her collar.
She walked fast for some time, then more slowly, and looking straight in front of her, her eyes rested on the shoulder of the young man, whose frock-coat had a black-velvety collar.
The cold that made him pale seemed to add a more gentle languor to his face; between his cravat and his neck the somewhat loose collar of his shirt showed the skin; the lobe of his ear looked out from beneath a lock of hair, and his large blue eyes, raised to the clouds, seemed to Emma more limpid and more beautiful than those mountain-lakes where the heavens are mirrored.
She bit her lips, and a rush of blood flowing under her skin made her red from the roots of her hair to the top of her collar.
On that day he wore a collar even higher than usual; and, tightly buttoned in his tunic, his figure was so stiff and motionless that the whole vital portion of his person seemed to have descended into his legs, which rose in a cadence of set steps with a single movement.
Madame Bovary senior, the evening before, passing along the passage, had surprised her in company of a man—a man with a brown collar, about forty years old, who, at the sound of her step, had quickly escaped through the kitchen.
She had sent for Monsieur Lheureux, and had said to him—"I want a cloak—a large lined cloak with a deep collar."
And seizing Justin by the collar of his blouse, he shook a book out of his pocket.
But at this moment the rural guard seized him by the collar.
His feet were caught in a chair overturned by the crowd; as he rose, he felt himself gripped by the collar; it was a gendarme in full uniform who was arresting him.
'I was an utter fool at Strasbourg, my thoughts never went beyond my coat collar.'Memories of Fouque kept recurring to his mind and left him in a more tender mood.
On the contrary, they stood in his way, old men held out their arms in front of him and a hand from somewhere - he did not have the time to turn round - took hold of his collar.
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