Sentence examples for slacks from inspiring English sources

But 20 years ago, you couldn't move for thrillers in provincial theatres: always set in country houses or smart London flats, always starring an actor off the TV in neckerchief and fawn slacks (Gerald Harper or Jack Hedley or Bill Simpson), always featuring a drinks trolley, an attractive fiance, a best friend and a stalwart detective who appears after the interval to investigate the crime.

She would have preferred to fly in slacks, she said, but thought the public expected her to wear a skirt.

A downpour began in the London flat, staining my slacks and drowning the gin and tonic.

I still longed to be up there, to play that doctor, to wear that neckerchief and those fawn slacks.

I'm just back from Perth where Stephen Smith and I had Australia-United States ministerial consultations … She stepped off her big plane, eyes hidden behind large-framed oval sunglasses, her hair pulled back, an outsize light blue jacket and black slacks.

The greatest playwright of his age, a simultaneously benevolent and aquiline figure, wore the clothes he had worn all day – a creased safari jacket over a crumpled open-necked shirt, slacks and trainers.

The part had everything I could have wished for: drinks trolley, slacks, London flat, best friend and dogged detective picking up knick-knacks.

Isaac Holman, 23, Slaves' singer and almost certainly the only stand-up drummer currently with a major-label record deal, is ironing a pair of business slacks with meticulous care.

She was photographed with them, a schoolgirl figure in white blouse and black slacks amid a sea of beige uniforms.

The petite and elegant figure, clad in two-pieces or nicely pressed slacks, her hair Thatcher-perfect, was clearly a denizen of the northern suburbs of Johannesburg, where discreet black domestics clipped the acacias and golf was played at weekends.

BACK in the golden age of polyester flare slacks and burnt orange shag carpeting, women were more likely than men to report themselves "very happy".