How to Use chaps in a Sentence

chaps

plural noun
  • Why, yes, those are red suede chaps to match the red suede vest.
    Matt Young, Chron, 25 Feb. 2022
  • Simple chaps may be lighter, but do not protect the backs of your legs.
    The Editors, Field & Stream, 11 Nov. 2020
  • In the video, Aguilera sports a skimpy bra and leather chaps while grinding around in a sweaty boxing ring.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Three dogs loped past, while a wrangler in a broad Spanish hat and chaps saddled a horse.
    Brian Smale, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Phil is tall, rangy and dresses like a cowboy, complete with soiled hat and chaps.
    New York Times, 30 Nov. 2021
  • His Stetson cocked just so, his fringed chaps and his pony on the end of a tether are familiar sights in the stakes barn.
    New York Times, 20 May 2022
  • About 15 years ago, Fox used to see Trammell around Riverwest, dressed in a leather jacket and leather chaps.
    Sophie Carson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 July 2020
  • Look 2 is a heart shaped chaps pants, a butterfly top, and a hat made of tie dye denim, gathered around the legs.
    Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 3 June 2021
  • Arguably the most horse girl item of all — chaps — is back, too, and not just on Hadid or Kim Kardashian.
    Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 9 May 2021
  • Some of this is achieved when Joyce walks into the office for the first time to see a woman wearing nothing but chaps.
    New York Times, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Aguilera, 41, and her backing dancers showed up in red, with the vocalist donning a tight corset and leather chaps.
    Shafiq Najib, PEOPLE.com, 12 June 2022
  • Tad Lucas wore satin and sequins, woolly Angora chaps, and white fringe that flapped in the breeze.
    Sarah Hepola, ELLE, 12 Sep. 2022
  • The pop icon wore a black, white, and yellow corseted leotard over fishnet stockings with chaps.
    Carrie Wittmer, Glamour, 8 Dec. 2021
  • And the male rider looked the part of a desperado with his white hat & bandana, brown leather chaps, and white duster adorned with blue Cowboys stars.
    Kristi Scales, Dallas News, 9 Dec. 2020
  • Phil, while a studied intellect, seems to never take off his chaps.
    Jake Coyle, Detroit Free Press, 4 Dec. 2021
  • Later on, the youngest Hadid sister is seen atop a horse wearing Hermès chaps.
    Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 3 Aug. 2020
  • No PowerPoint training, no class from the chaps, nothing.
    New York Times, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Drag kings, mostly (this was ladies’ night) who would dress in fedoras or leather chaps and lip-sync to James Brown or Justin Timberlake.
    Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 23 June 2022
  • Not only did Page not miss a step despite pausing the biggest push of his career, this cowboy seemed to have gained a few more tools in the belt that holds up his chaps.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 14 Nov. 2021
  • The agents, wearing chaps and cowboy hats, maneuvered their horses to forcibly block and move the migrants, almost seeming to herd them.
    BostonGlobe.com, 21 Sep. 2021
  • Ezekiel Mitchell is unmistakable in his signature all-blue leather vest and chaps.
    Brett Williams, Men's Health, 19 May 2022
  • The chainsaw operators wear dark Kevlar chaps and yellow jackets stained with dirt and wet sawdust.
    David Helvarg, Environment, 29 Dec. 2021
  • The futuristic ensemble was a custom Mugler piece and featured a bra, high-rise briefs, chaps and a chunky belt buckle.
    Ariana Quihuiz, Peoplemag, 12 Oct. 2022
  • The Italian arena-rock revivalists always put on a show, and a leather-chaps number baring a butt mid-verse is most certainly that.
    Thania Garcia, Variety, 28 Aug. 2022
  • Cave Creek Trail Rides can provide cowboy boots, hats and chaps to wear on your ride or for that perfect photo opportunity.
    Shanti Lerner, The Arizona Republic, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Phil, in his dusty chaps and battered hat, embodies the lone-cowboy ideal, or at least certainly fancies himself that way.
    Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Good eats, bad chaps and problematic marriages — who’d have guessed? — abound in this early-fall assortment of mysteries and thrillers.
    Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2021
  • The scenery is ravishingly romantic in that extravagant Sir Walter Scott kind of way—mountains and glens, sheep and handsome chaps in kilts.
    Stanley Stewart, Travel + Leisure, 22 Mar. 2021
  • But perhaps the best fashion statement our photographer Lili Kobielski captured was a pair of fringed leather chaps worn by a rider.
    Sarah Spellings, Vogue, 10 May 2022
  • Dressed in leather chaps, an embroidered shirt and a navy blue bow around his neck, Raudel Jimenez adjusts the Virgin Mary prayer card inside the band of his sombrero before strapping down a serape blanket onto his horse’s saddle.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Aug. 2021

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