How To Use Civvies In A Sentence
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They have to be in the sea cadets for three months, have to be in civvies while the other are in uniform.
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We went up to the landing and there passing down by the end of the garden was a party of about 10 men in civvies, carrying rifles heading for the Pontoon Road.
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I do not have robes and I do not have the wherewithal to obtain them and I seek permission of the Court to appear before you in mufti and civvies.
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Another soldier from your unit, Pte Smith, is drinking with his mates including some civvies you do not recognise.
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For their sakes, given how badly they are outgunned, one hopes they will have the sense to throw down their weapons, change into civvies, and go home.
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The contractor with the shaved-head said he traded his Army uniform years ago for a technician's civvies.
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Armed with copies of the morning newspapers and flasks of coffee and dressed in their civvies, they chatted, or played cards to pass the time.
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All were back in their civvies again after lunch for the spectacular parade of crews through the city.
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But you wouldn't bet against him turning up there in civvies in future, management being an ambition still left to fulfil.
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Out in the car park, live wire Menashe has put away his coloured silk racing shirt and donned his civvies.
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He was in civvies rather than a uniform and he didn't give me a chance to clean up, although I carry bags with me to do just that.
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First, a light recon group would have to evacuate any civvies in the area.
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An ordinary citizen at Scarborough on his annual Territorial Army camp was turned away from the Spa although he was with two friends in their civvies.
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As Christmas rolls around again, it is not just department store Santas who are pulling on the false beards and changing out of their civvies.
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In her civvies she looks like any other fit female - but Monica, 35, is the British powerlifting champion in her class and is awesomely strong.
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The sixteen civvies with the highest individual score will arrange themselves into four-person teams and play each other for the rights to compete at E3.
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He's floppy-fringed, blond and pinkly handsome with slightly buck teeth; even in civvies you'd pick him out as an army officer at 500 yards in the rush hour.
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She sneaked into town on a freight train, covered her uniform with civvies, stuffed her hair into a floppy hat and donned some oversized Ray-Bans.
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Then he asked me if I was wearing my suspenders under my civvies because he was wearing his.
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But three knew that they would have packed as many civvies on board to reduce losses on the colony.
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I insisted that the actors wear their street clothes, even to the extent of ordering several who arrived on stage in costume to change back to civvies.
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At one restaurant we had a commis obsessed with his appearance, he would spend more attention on hanging up his civvies and polishing his shoes than he would on chopping chiffonade or puréeing the soup, a disgrace.
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We're all pulling back as soon as the civvies are all evacuated.
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He is in civvies today - immaculate grey suit, buffed shoes, short back and sides - he wears them as if they were a uniform: pressed creases, ramrod back, purposeful handshake.
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Men were returning home in thousands upon thousands, shedding their khaki uniforms and slouch hats for civvies.
THE THORN BIRDS
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Civvies is a fictionalised account of ex-paratroopers trying to adjust to civilian life.
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I was watching the class when one of the instructors came over and invited me to join in, even though I was in civvies.
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When he's in civvies, he tap-taps down the street.
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She is now back in civvies and one doubts she is pining for her days in the blue uniform.
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'Asn't' e got no civvies at all?" said the small man, beginning to look sceptical.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 15, 1916
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I didn't realize he was a soldier because he was in civvies.
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Next Week: More stories to scur the scivvies off ya.
Comments for BrightestYoungThings
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‘For this, patrolling, including by policemen in civvies, needs to be intensified at these places,’ said Khan.
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One soldier complains to his fellow soldiers after the fact, ‘I saw you shooting civvies!’
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I didn't realize he was a soldier because he was in civvies.
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So I went, in civvies, of course, and he signed me into the book as Penrose.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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Why should we have to suffer the failings of civvies in the armed forces?
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They looked strong and used to it; their hair was cut short; they might have been soldiers in civvies.
COUP D'ETAT
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Pete never settled after coming out of the RAF and could not accept the way civvies lived.
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Turning civvies into sailors is one of HMS Raleigh's most important roles.
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For their sakes, given how badly they are outgunned, one hopes they will have the sense to throw down their weapons, change into civvies, and go home.
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Some of these civvies would be armed with 357s and other weapons.
