Sentence examples for necktie up from inspiring English sources

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Instead, she held the necktie up with one hand, and ran her thumb and forefinger carefully along the seam, lightly palpating the length of the fabric.

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That's enough to make the bottom of my necktie stand up and shriek, "Noooooo, don't make me put Dilbert on my no-read list!" .

So although the mayor changed his necktie -- picking up on the colors of national flags, he went from Israeli blue to Albanian red and black -- he avoided more direct questions about independence for Kosovo, saying, "Our State Department has a difficult job".

Thanko, the Japanese purveyor of oddities such as USB powered mittens and USB necktie have come up with yet another doozy.

By liberating herself of a physically confining accessory which has also become her trademark, Lagarde was able to signal a turning point in the conversation toward a more frank,  inclusive tone – in some way akin to a man loosening his necktie or rolling up his shirt sleeves in order to show he's ready to 'get down to business'.

On warm days, I used to eat my bag lunch there, along with other workers who had loosened their neckties and rolled up their pants legs and leaned on the benches catching some sun.

Mr. Olch and Mr. Rogers attended exclusive Manhattan private schools, graduated from Harvard, shared a love of film and neckties and grew up in adjacent buildings on East 74th Street.

Wearing a necktie and rolled-up shirt sleeves and standing in the same spot in the newsroom where Mr. Raines had announced he was leaving, Mr. Keller yesterday invoked a stated aim of one of the paper's first publishers, Adolph Ochs -- to report the news "without fear or favor" -- applying it not just to the paper's journalism but to the mood of the staff itself.

What man wouldn't pass up a necktie for the chance to be associated with an educated, supermacho giant rat?

By the end of the scene Dean Martin had chased Jerry Lewis into the audience and around a customer's table, Jerry Lewis has scissored the club owner's necktie in two, picked up a diner's steak, mopped his brow with it and licked it.

Again, the contrast color is his necktie bringing the attention up, which is what one wants when he's short.

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