FASHION in a Sentence

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For FASHION, below is one of 284 sentences:
And the authorities felt ridiculous, and behaved in a rather ridiculous fashion, and it was all a mad hatter's tea-party for a while.

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 Meanings and Examples of FASHION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
fashion
 n.  style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The A, if you noticed, was printed somewhat after the German fashion.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
2  There was not an animal on the farm that did not take vengeance on them after his own fashion.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
3  It was not that these creatures did not work, after their fashion.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
4  This worthy churchman rode upon a well-fed ambling mule, whose furniture was highly decorated, and whose bridle, according to the fashion of the day, was ornamented with silver bells.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
5  His feet had sandals of the same fashion with the peasants, but of finer materials, and secured in the front with golden clasps.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
6  He wore a high square yellow cap of a peculiar fashion, assigned to his nation to distinguish them from Christians, and which he doffed with great humility at the door of the hall.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
7  Her form was exquisitely symmetrical, and was shown to advantage by a sort of Eastern dress, which she wore according to the fashion of the females of her nation.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
8  The Emperor Charlemagne, in whose reign they were first introduced, seems to have been very sensible of the inconveniences arising from the fashion of this garment.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
9  Nevertheless, spite of this imperial objurgation, the short cloaks continued in fashion down to the time of which we treat, and particularly among the princes of the House of Anjou.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
10  I tell thee, the fiend can impose diseases for the very purpose of removing them, in order to bring into credit some diabolical fashion of cure.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
11  I burst in upon them, and the fashion of my grave-clothes, as well as the clanking of my chains, made me more resemble an inhabitant of the other world than of this.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
12  And the authorities felt ridiculous, and behaved in a rather ridiculous fashion, and it was all a mad hatter's tea-party for a while.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
13  She had been supposed to have rather a good figure, but now she was out of fashion: a little too female, not enough like an adolescent boy.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
14  Once he had walked, bare-headed, and in his patent-leather shoes and purple silk socks, with Connie down to the gate, talking to her in his well-bred rather haw-haw fashion.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
15  The chair pugged slowly, in a struggling unwilling fashion.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
Example Sentence: (74 in 5 pages)
16  Buyers from stores are given the opportunity to go through fashion collections item by item and place orders.
17  Her designer clothes were from the pages of a glossy fashion magazine.
18  The magazine carries an intriguing mixture of high fashion, gossip and racing.
19  He did fashion photography for Vogue magazine.
20  She could not maintain her balance and moved in a wobbly fashion.
21  The newspaper commissioned a series of articles on the worst excesses of the fashion industry.
22  He and a partner set up on their own and built a successful fashion company.
23  A company from Darlington has just launched its latest range of fashion jewellery.
24  This theory, though recent, is more than a passing fashion.
25  We need someone who can anticipate and respond to changes in the fashion industry.
26  Leather is very much in fashion this season, as of course is the ubiquitous denim.
27  She wore a powdered wig, as was the fashion of the day.
28  There is another drug called DHE that works in a similar fashion.
29  Flared trousers were a fashion statement of the seventies.
30  A style of art can go out of fashion and then come back into favour fifty years later.