PANTS in a Sentence

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For PANTS, below is one of 136 sentences:
After the devastating attack on its military bases, the country was determined not to be caught with its pants down a second time.

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 Meanings and Examples of PANTS
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pants
 n.  trousers; underwear; garment extending from waist to knee or ankle
Classic Sentence: (120 in 9 pages)
1  I'd feel like a sissy in those baggy red pants.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  Scarlett thought she had never seen such elegant pants as he wore, fawn colored, shepherd's plaid, and checked.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  He fumbled in his back pants pocket and brought out the wallet of calico, stiffened with bark, which Carreen had made him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
4  It was nice to have a man fussing and clucking and scolding, even if it was only that old maid in pants, Frank Kennedy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
5  "There's never going to be any doubt in anybody's mind about who wears the pants in the Butler family," drawled Rhett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
6  You want to get over your city idea that because a man's pants aren't pressed, he's a fool.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
7  Schminke's bead necklace and Whittier's error in putting on the striped pants, day like this.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
8  The finishing of pants did not take much skill, and anybody could learn it, and so the pay was forever getting less.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 29
9  When we got up-stairs to his room he got me a coarse shirt and a roundabout and pants of his, and I put them on.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII.
10  No use saying nothing about his pants.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
11  He drew his breath short, and strained me so close to him, I could scarcely pant.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
12  By the time she caught sight of the Leyden house, she was beginning to pant, for her stays were tightly laced, but she did not slow her gait.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
13  Anxiety and his swift run made him pant.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In TWO GALLANTS
14  The conventionary began to pant; the asthma of the agony which is mingled with the last breaths interrupted his voice; still, there was a perfect lucidity of soul in his eyes.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
15  I pant for a life full of striving.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In XI
Example Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  I don't normally go outside in floppy pants and a sweatshirt.
2  When we got up-stairs to his room he got me a coarse shirt and pants of his, and I put them on.
3  When you choose pants you should remember that some fabric with a tendency to shrink.
4  Seeing the holes in Bill's new pants, his mother furiously began to excoriate him for ruining his good clothes.
5  You can't wear the red pants.
6  She was wearing dark blue pants and a white sweater.
7  After the devastating attack on its military bases, the country was determined not to be caught with its pants down a second time.
8  It had a saddle with springs sticking out, which wore away the seat of my pants.
9  We began to pant before we reached the top of hill.
10  George puffed and panted and he tried to keep up.
11  She panted out the urgent message.
12  He came in panting after running up the steps.
13  He forged ahead, panting and breathless.
14  The dog was panting because of the hot weather.
15  They all crowded round it, panting, and asking, "But who has won?"