How To Use Buttoned In A Sentence
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The coat was buttoned up wrong.
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As I approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight.
Sole Music
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She wore black, and dressed in long skirts with shirt collars buttoned at the throat.
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One usually thinks of the paradigmatic soldier is the front line rifleman, or maybe a guy buttoned up in a tank.
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He took off his sweater and unbuttoned his shirt.
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It was a light blue dress that buttoned all the way up, a pink belt around her waist and brown boots.
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He dropped his cap on a chair, unbuttoned his overcoat, lifting up his chin to unfasten the throat buttons.
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Just as she got to the annoying one in the middle that she could hardly reach, another pair of hands buttoned it for her.
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I zipped and buttoned my jacket.
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I "buttoned" the circles onto the eyes, then used a few stitches to tack them down.
Archive 2005-03-20
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You know, low slung jeans, chambray shirt hanging loose and unbuttoned.
Angels' Blood Countdown: Lora Leigh - Nauti Intentions ARC
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I'd wear it with a slightly unbuttoned shirt to show off the lace trim.
The Sun
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We are asked by the author, a biographer not only of Charles Dickens but of London too, to contemplate the novelist unbuttoned, in peep-show dishabille.
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And from her throat to her knees, it was buttoned with tiny, braid buttons.
Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
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The current trend for a prim, buttoned-up collar lends itself perfectly to brooch wearing.
Times, Sunday Times
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Murals of the durbars and processions depict courtiers in their buttoned up coats and white trousers standing in neat rows like stick figures.
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The first few buttons were unbuttoned and his sleeves were rolled up to the elbows.
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Consider pattern details that promote independence, such as pull-on pants, rather than zippered or buttoned pants.
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I never, in the whole course of my life, was fond of lending the sanction of my countenance to any thing that was not canny; and, even when I was a wee smout of a callant, with my jacket and trowsers buttoned all in one,
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
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They can be worn with a suit and tie or untucked and loosely buttoned with shorts.
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“Oh, I dunno,” says our informant, another sprightly juvenile, modishly clad in jellaba, brass-buttoned jacket, and pirate head-scarf.
Flashman on the March
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Enter Magee Mor Matthew, a rugged rough rugheaded kern, in strossers with a buttoned codpiece, his nether stocks bemired with clauber of ten forests, a wand of wilding in his hand.
Ulysses
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He hired comedian Phyllis Diller in the early 1960s as a pitchwoman, breaking from the buttoned-down banking image of the era.
He Built Banc One Into a Potent Force
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And there's Bill Lee, a.k.a. "Spaceman," an iconoclastic cult hero to college-age Boston fans in the late '70s, a quintessentially flaky southpaw who once boasted of sprinkling marijuana on his breakfast cereal -- before the buttoned-down Red Sox brass exiled him to the Montreal Expos, in whose uniform he is (sadly) pictured in the card collection.
FOUND: Lots and lots of baseball cards
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Blouses are designed to look as though they were buttoned from the top, but no button exists near the collar bone.
Modest Feminine Dress From the Pages of 1990 Victoria Magazine
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The plaid skirt seem to come up to her breasts and her shirt buttoned down and was supposed to be tucked into her skirt but she left it out.
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The older woman was shocked to see that the kurti the girl was wearing was almost fully unbuttoned.
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She wore a white linen chambray shirt that buttoned in the front with pearl buttons.
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The top can be worn buttoned up or open over a T-shirt.
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That's right, suits: buttoned up shirts, stylish ties, smart trousers with matching fitted jackets.
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Wear a classic white shirt buttoned up for a preppy look.
The Sun
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Truly unaware, some brazenly buttoned their flies as they walked out of the lavatory into the corridor.
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And she glanced down along her unbuttoned jacket, over the faded delaine dress, to her shoes tied with strings held together by countless knots.
The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras
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He was wearing uniform but his battledress jacket was unbuttoned and his tie was loose.
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Winstone's never been one to keep his kisser buttoned, though.
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The dark navy plaid skirt came down a little below mid-thigh and the short sleeve shirt buttoned down the front.
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But how long will it before the good old letter becomes as common as carbon-paper, horseshoes and buttoned flies on trousers?
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Nilly hurriedly buttoned all the shiny buttons on the uniform, buckled the belt with the shiny saber that only just barely dragged on the ground, and grabbed the strange, three-cornered hat that was sitting on the seat of the chair.
Bubble in the Bathtub
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The emperor's jacket was unbuttoned, his lace cravat untied, and his crown of golden leaves sitting crooked atop uncombed dark hair.
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The trend now is to wear your shirt buttoned up to the eyeballs.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mr. Guccione, who often wore hip-hugging leather pants and shirts unbuttoned to his navel - exposing his chest hair and gold chains - estimated Penthouse earned $4 billion during his 30-year tenure as publisher.
Bob Guccione, 79, founder of Penthouse magazine
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The buttoned, calf-length tunic and wide-legged bloomers left everything to the imagination.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Tonight he was splendid in fashionable buttoned-down mauve shirt and violet tie.
IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
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She turned around and started to pick through his shirt drawer, once again, and came out with a white tank and another shirt that buttoned up.
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Ridge already had his shirt half unbuttoned, so she unfastened the last few and eased one arm out of the shirt sleeve.
Western Man
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He unbuttoned his shirt and revealed a big scar on his chest.
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Ashton was now wearing the white shirt buttoned at the top; Audrey was wearing the bolero jacket with no shirt.
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But for me, it was the legacy of Byron and the Shelleys — and thejuxtaposition of such larger-than-life characters in such a pristinebuttoned-down place that gave Lake Geneva its most powerful allure.
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Hail our life, our sweetness, and our hope that soon his month on dry land would be up, and he would return to the rigs, his gear packed in the kitbag, his peacoat buttoned to the collar.
Three for the christmas
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Shirts ran the gamut from an easy Nehru collar, or wide, stiff Eton-collar shirts that give new meaning to the phrase buttoned-up.
Milan Men's Fashion Week: S&M, Silk Suits & McQueen (PHOTOS)
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Wear jackets open and remember this is probably the only time the extra fabric from a double-breasted jacket looks terrific when unbuttoned.
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he stared as she buttoned her top
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David wondered what she was looking for - a sleeve cuff buttoned askew?
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Just as its kindred discipline yoga has been embraced by buttoned-down lawyers and accountants, tai chi is no longer limited to hemp-clad New Agers who impose vegan diets on their pets.
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For the rest of her life, she kept her lips buttoned.
The Times Literary Supplement
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In the end, great figures of the past will be judged by their contributions to history rather than by whether they buttoned their vest the wrong way or ate prunes for dinner.
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Pattern for the side vents of the 1895 coat, which unbuttoned to allow use of the sword belt.
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His cunning intelligence chief was General Tai Li, a short and stocky man always dressed in a khaki coat buttoned tightly at the collar, whose teeth were laced with gold bridgework that he exposed during the rare times he smiled.
Wild Bill Donovan
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He was dressed in a pair of baggy camouflage trousers, a blue-and-white hooped T-shirt and an unbuttoned flak jacket.
CODE BREAKER
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And from her throat to her knees, it was buttoned with tiny, braid buttons.
Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
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Auntie (a strong Anne Collins) and her nieces (Ailish Tynan and Helen Williams) injected rather too much ribaldry and suggestiveness into the proceedings; surely this community is rather buttoned up and not so free?
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One afternoon I came home from school to find her squeezed into my unbuttoned favorite blouse.
Between Worlds: A Reader, Rhetoric and Handbook
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He rides a bike, wears his shirts unbuttoned.
Times, Sunday Times
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When he gets closer we can see that one of his shirt cuffs is unbuttoned and the sleeve is frayed.
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It was like the face on an officer about to scold a private for leaving his shirt unbuttoned.
SPIDERTOWN
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He was dressed in a pair of baggy camouflage trousers, a blue-and-white hooped T-shirt and an unbuttoned flak jacket.
CODE BREAKER
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Underneath her jacket she wore and off white silk button up blouse shirt that buttoned down just low enough to make my heart race.
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So Louis and I rendezvoused in a livery stable, and with coats buttoned and chattering teeth played euchre and casino until the time of our exile was over.
Chapter 19
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He wore a loose cotton blouson buttoned at the waist over a blue tee-shirt and faded khaki slacks.
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He was wearing uniform but his battledress jacket was unbuttoned and his tie was loose.
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The clean lines and beautifully minimalist room was built for languor and comfort, yet the atmosphere was buttoned-up with a starched collar.
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Wesley slowly unbuttoned his corduroy jacket, `You must move to the left of him, hold his attention.
BEHINDLINGS
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Every time that he passed the law-school, which rarely happened, he buttoned up his frock-coat, — the paletot had not yet been invented, — and took hygienic precautions.
Les Miserables
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The top can be worn buttoned up or open over a T-shirt.
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Declan removed his coat and neckcloth, and unbuttoned his waistcoat.
The Year of Living Scandalously
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She's standing up and wearing a weird white jacket buttoned conspicuously at the waist as if to argue with those who said she'd been photoshopped into semi-svelteness.
Archive 2006-09-01
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I unbuttoned my jumper, and pulled it quickly off.
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He is a superhero-in-waiting, unbothered by an unbuttoned shirt, and thirsty for a franchise phenomenon of his own.
Twilight Lexicon » Kellan Lutz In Interview Magazine
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With the group was a lieutenant, buttoned close in his gray coat, -- one button gone, perhaps to make a breastpin for some fair traitorous bosom.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862
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He had the distinguished look of a buttoned-down, wealthy tycoon who fed his rebellious streak in the shadowy edges of his life.
I.O.U.
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He was charred and singed, his unbuttoned shirt showed a blackly powdered wren's chest, for once his face looked darker than his eyes.
MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
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My company was way less buttoned-down and closed-mouth than most, so the problem wasn't them, but me; I'd sucked down enough of the Kool-Aid by my mid-twenties to keep lots of myself under wraps and behind the veil, the way most corporate people do -- a stupid waste of creativity and human power.
Liz Ryan: Putting The 'Human' Back In HR, Part Two
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I'd wear it with a slightly unbuttoned shirt to show off the lace trim.
The Sun
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It's easy to imagine Victorian families heading out for a bracing dip, using segregated sections of sea with bathing costumes buttoned up to the neck.
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Outside the presence Dicky unbuttoned his coat like an Englishman again, and ten minutes later flung his tarboosh into a corner of the room; for the tarboosh was the sign of official servitude, and Dicky was never the perfect official.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
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She twirls the fringe on her scarf, which has been unwound from her neck and now hangs past her waist up against her unbuttoned spring coat.
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He buttoned up his Marine coat and walked down Prospect Avenue to where his Baby was parked.
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I unbuttoned my shirt cuffs.
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A largish man, young, wearing an unbuttoned blue shirt, white boxer shorts, and short boots not yet laced.
THE JOE LEAPHORN MYSTERIES
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Without a second thought, I pulled on the white blouse and buttoned up my jeans.
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I saw a goddess of a woman from India over six feet tall, all legs, in gauzy white blouse unbuttoned down to her chest and up to her diaphragm.
On the sidewalks of New York with Lance Mannion, strolling pervert
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She wears a pale blue shirt, unbuttoned fairly low.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'd stood at the door in my black, unpressed, cuffless wool pants; wide suspenders; heavy black buttoned shoes; green-and-white-striped shirt with no collar, though both front and back studs were in the neckband; and I wore a double-breasted black vest with braided edges, a heavy gold watch chain stretched across it.
Time and Again
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It is buttoned down the front with five buttons, which also do up the men's way, and which are 10.5 cm apart, centre to centre.
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Hail our life, our sweetness, and our hope that soon his month on dry land would be up, and he would return to the rigs, his gear packed in the kitbag, his peacoat buttoned to the collar.
Three for the christmas
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The trend now is to wear your shirt buttoned up to the eyeballs.
Times, Sunday Times
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The coat was buttoned up wrong.
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He unbuttoned the tuxedo jacket and rolled the sleeves to his elbows.
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IT was supposed to be the weekend when mouthy Premier League stars finally buttoned their lips and saw the error of their ways.
The Sun
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I wore a slinky green skirt that buttoned over the front.
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She hasn't unbuttoned her coat.
Times, Sunday Times
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The jacket was fastened with a complicated buttoned flap.
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Back at Revolver, a 20-something wearing a collared shirt unbuttoned to his navel is approached and asked what he thinks of Ben Quayle.
Ben Quayle's run for Congress, interrupted by Internet columnist Nik Richie
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She hasn't unbuttoned her coat.
Times, Sunday Times
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Before opening her eyes she feels to make sure her handbag is still buttoned safely within her overcoat.
BAG LADY BLUES • by Mark Dalligan
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His face was prinked and scrubbed and his jacket was brushed and buttoned high.
At Swim, Two Boys
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He unbuttoned his shirt.
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If local women venture onto the dusty streets at all, they sport ankle-length dresses, buttoned-up blouses and 1930s hairstyles with buns and pompadours.
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The word denial came to mind, but for once I buttoned my lip.
Confession
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The prisoner wore a checked shirt buttoned to the top.
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She was wearing vaguely unbuttoned overalls, carrying a spanner and had oil streaks on her face.
Times, Sunday Times
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It fits perfectly the template for the new breed of Britflick; talented rebel clashes with buttoned-up pillars of the establishment, who are forced to unbend, and finally admit that self-expression, and so on, is a good thing.
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And as the buttoned-down publisher learns Internet geekspeak, it is also finally forcing its mini-fiefdoms to speak to each other.
Bertelsmann's Online Onslaught
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One afternoon I came home from school to find her squeezed into my unbuttoned favorite blouse.
Between Worlds: A Reader, Rhetoric and Handbook
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Deliberately, Madeleine had selected a dress to wear which buttoned down the front to the waist.
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When we went back to my house for coffee, I saw her blouse was unbuttoned.
The Sun
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Even wild and childish Kyle was poised behind his keyboard, black buttoned shirt, tails hanging unmannered over his casual blue jeans.
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the wind picked up the hem of her unbuttoned coat
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While she had been reading, he had unbuttoned the dark green cotton shirt and untucked the tails from his jeans.
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She wore blue jeans and a long-sleeved white shirt buttoned to the neck.
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He comes to the office in surprisingly tight trousers and a white shirt unbuttoned at the neck, but only to the second button.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is sitting in an upright chair and his shirt is unbuttoned, as if torn open.
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His shirt is normally unbuttoned just a little more than most people would choose, and his face mirrors his emotions quite beautifully.
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That is to say, he took off his tie and unbuttoned a shirt not designed to be worn tieless.
THE PRESIDENT'S CHILD
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As with her earlier collection, the garments can be worn inside-out, reversed or unbuttoned.
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He comes to the office in surprisingly tight trousers and a white shirt unbuttoned at the neck, but only to the second button.
Times, Sunday Times
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She watched as he buttoned up his thick coat and pulled gloves onto his hands.
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The upper part of his form, notwithstanding the season required no such defence, was shrouded in a large great-coat, belted over his under habiliments, and crested with a huge cowl of the same stale, which, when drawn over the head and hat, completely overshadowed both, and being buttoned beneath the chin, was called a trot-cozy.
The Waverley
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Having booked a couple of days ahead, four of us were rewarded with one of the booths with emerald green buttoned upholstery - a fabric that seems eminently wipeable - that divide the ground floor unrecognisable from its previous incarnation as Vama between tables facing gastronomically barren King's Road and those beneath a glazed roof at the back.
Evening Standard - Home
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Lancer pulled up short and made a shallow bow to the man, who wore an old but carefully-ironed white shirt with a buttoned collar much too large for him, from which his thin corded neck extended like a sunburnt plant stalk.
The Captain's Hat
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A flunkey in mufti is as unseemly an object as a soldier on furlough, with his jacket unbuttoned and his neat stock replaced by a coloured neckerchief.
Echoes of the Week
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An undershirt or chemise, with or without sleeves, open at the front and worn under the frock coat, was worn buttoned to the waist.
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Drinks served by flirtatious cocktail waitresses in gauzy blouses unbuttoned to the middles of their chests and skirts slit up to the hip so that they can reach the holsters attached to their garters and draw cigars, lighters, and clippers on command.
A master of the universe plots his own downfall
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Wear a classic white shirt buttoned up for a preppy look.
The Sun
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It would be wrong to portray China as a tightly buttoned mind control state.
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He rides a bike, wears his shirts unbuttoned.
Times, Sunday Times
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We already knew Stamos could pull off scrubs thanks to his time on ER, but damn, he does the buttoned-down, rolled-up cuffs look quite well.
Annie Stamell: John Stamos Makes His Glee Debut As Dr. Carl, Raises Dentist Standards Everywhere
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he was unwashed and uncombed with his clothes half buttoned
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The shirtwaist was a woman’s garment with a mannish touch: a buttoned front.
International Ladies Garment Workers Union.
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They do exhibit a certain buttoned-down wit, though.
American Everyman
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It was with this that Hannah gently bathed Riko's face and neck, then buttoned his pajama top back up when she had finished.
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Teachers would always send me to the office because my top two buttons were unbuttoned.
Christianity Today
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Jake's shirt was unbuttoned and his belt hung undone at his waist.
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The blonde boy looked just as stunning as he believed when he entered the community lounge clad in a halfway unbuttoned, black satin shirt with silver buttons, skin-tight black denims and dark suede boots.
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He actually felt underdressed in his nice gray suit and unbuttoned black shirt with matching shoes.
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All the men still have their shirts buttoned up tight to the collar, their ties knotted, their hair slicked back.
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He wore a murrey-coloured plush jerkin, stained with the overflowings of the tankard, and much the worse for wear, and unbuttoned at bottom for the ease of his enormous paunch.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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A furbelow of precious stones, a hat buttoned with a diamond, a brocade waistcoat or petticoat, are standing topics.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 267, August 4, 1827
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The boys' sleeves were attached by poppers that made for lots of arms coming loose before time and the girls' skirts were buttoned on, equaling lots of frantic undoing whilst dancing to get the bloody things off.
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Teachers would always send me to the office because my top two buttons were unbuttoned.
Christianity Today
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He is wearing a black t-shirt with a short-sleeved shirt over the top unbuttoned completely.
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A cold drizzle was falling, but he bared his head to it and unbuttoned his vest, swinging along in splendid unconcern.
Chapter 3
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Finally, bringing up the rear, was a troupe of majorettes - flag-waving, high-stepping, brass-buttoned beauties with short skirts and kinky boots.
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Coincidentally, she had on very decent clothes as well, I think it was a buttoned up cardigan with jeans.
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Fully fueled and back in my car, I discovered my shirt was unbuttoned.
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He wore his shirt unbuttoned halfway down his chest.
Times, Sunday Times
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He wore an army greatcoat, not big enough to cover his blubbery belly although it was buttoned across his chest.
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The jacket was fastened with a complicated buttoned flap.
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As for the amazement that these were built in buttoned down Spain, Catalunya is a very different place from the rest of the country – much more cosmopolitan and ars gratia artis than Madrid, for example.
Matthew Yglesias » Pretty Pictures
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this unbuttoned and disrespectful age
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For the rest of her life, she kept her lips buttoned.
The Times Literary Supplement
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He buttoned up his Marine coat and walked down Prospect Avenue to where his Baby was parked.
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a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business
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As he buttoned up his shirt, I noticed the scar on his neck from previous carotid surgery.
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I buttoned up my coat; it was chilly.
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His coat soon became a cause of offense and called forth another reproof from those buttoned up in conforming garments.
Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897
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His shirt was white and puffier in the sleeves, buttoned with silver cufflinks.
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Wear a classic white shirt buttoned up for a preppy look.
The Sun
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They are a clean-cut, happy-looking couple in their fifties who are decidedly less buttoned-down than the other professionals in the group.
American Grace
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While she had been reading, he had unbuttoned the dark green cotton shirt and untucked the tails from his jeans.
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Silicone faced fibreglass made by a sail-maker is buttoned to the inner building with an insulating layer and inner damp-proof lining.
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She was wearing what appeared to be a man's shirt, which was unbuttoned.
COLDHEART CANYON
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I think glancing along rows of neatly zipped trousers and tightly buttoned shirts in the tube carriage.
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Just inside, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin were secluded inside their dressing rooms, but one guest brought them out, Baldwin still in his street clothes and Martin with his tuxedo shirt untucked and unbuttoned.
Onstage drama and backstage delight at the Academy Awards
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They are a clean-cut, happy-looking couple in their fifties who are decidedly less buttoned-down than the other professionals in the group.
American Grace
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Following relatively buttoned-up remarks by FBI Director Robert Mueller, Mr. Dupnik again addressed issues such as antigovernment fervor, lax gun control and what he views as a failed system to deal with the mentally ill.
Arizona Elicits Sheriff's Criticism
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She was dressed in a pale yellow blouse with a large collar and long sleeves buttoned at the wrists, and tight dark brown slacks.
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Why is it that when I wear a shirt with the collar buttoned up, I look as though I have forgotten to put on a tie?
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His friend sagged slightly then, something that looked like the beginnings of tears glimmering on his eyelashes as he pulled lax fingers into action and slowly unbuttoned his shirt.
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He was wearing dark trousers and a white shirt with a collar, which he wore unbuttoned.
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A nasty battle has surfaced in the usually buttoned-down hotel industry, pitting Host Hotels & Resorts Inc.—the largest U.S. hotel owner—against a real-estate brokerage firm it hired to sell some of its hotels.
Host Hotels Sues Brokerage Firm
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Dressed in a green duster that was buttoned up over a simple black dress and a pair of black flats, she had dark brown hair that was somewhat tangled and very long.
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She wears a pale blue shirt, unbuttoned fairly low.
Times, Sunday Times
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I then unbuttoned my sleeve buttons to the blouse and let that drop to the floor.
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As a subversive alternative, the architects propose a row of deviant shirts, some misbuttoned, some configured like origami petals, all unwearable.
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Now, you know Anne dearie, that isn't the right thing for manse children – especially when the Methodist minister's little girl always wears such nice buttoned boots.
Rainbow Valley
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The sleeves had large buttoned cuffs, becoming narrower from the second half of the century onwards.
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When the bolt clicked on an empty chamber I automatically buttoned out the magazine, plucked a fresh one from my belt, and rammed it into the well.
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`Yes, that's pretty good," said Anastasia as she changed his nappy and buttoned him into a clean sunsuit.
ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1)
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She slid her arms into the jacket's sleeves and buttoned the front.
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A bespoke 3. 5m long bench to the left of the entrance makes a statement in buttoned leather with marble inserts (whilst functionally concealing a radiator), made for SHH by Naught One.
Manchester Square Interior by SHH
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She kicked off her new look on Sunday with a buttoned-up blouse and jacket.
The Sun
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She kicked off her new look on Sunday with a buttoned-up blouse and jacket.
The Sun
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The crew chief gave me the usual pat on the head - the good luck sign - buttoned the canopy, slid off the wing waving me out of the revetment.
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Keats might have called it, in the cellar or the back hall, more fully, but not completely, dressed, coatless, our waistcoats rakishly unbuttoned or vulgarly upstairs, our innocent trousers hanging on their gallowses, our shoes on our feet, and our physical activity not altogether unlike that demanded by a home-exerciser to reduce the abdomen.
The Perfect Gentleman
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He buttoned his collar tightly round his thick neck.
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Bollywood was a risqué world with money but little class where the vamps flashed thigh and cleavage and the heroes kept their shirts unbuttoned.
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His button down shirt was unbuttoned, letting his strong, pale-skinned, muscles show.
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I then unbuttoned my sleeve buttons to the blouse and let that drop to the floor.
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‘Delightful morning, sir!’ said a stoutish, military – looking gentleman in a blue surtout buttoned up to his chin, and white trousers chained down to the soles of his boots.
Sketches by Boz
