How to Use buckskin in a Sentence

buckskin

noun
  • His buckskin trousers and boots sparkle with rows of silver buttons.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 12 June 2021
  • Around his neck was a medallion made of porcupine quill and buckskin.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
  • The buckskin that will clothe him in the future must be protected from moths with the stink-glands of a skunk.
    — The Economist, 3 Feb. 2018
  • Even if hair is to be removed later in making buckskin or leather, use salt now to give the hide better quality.
    — Maurice H. Decker, Outdoor Life, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Along the way, small pools of water pocked the road, and mud splattered up from Brown Beauty’s forelegs against her sides and against Revere’s boots and buckskin pants.
    — Kostya Kennedy, Time, 16 Feb. 2026
  • The university doesn't endorse the continuation of a student dressed in buckskin regalia, a headdress and war paint.
    — Shannon Ryan, chicagotribune.com, 25 Aug. 2017
  • In his vision, Eddie saw my father on his horse, wearing his war bonnet and buckskins, riding into the other world, the warrior heading home.
    — Christa Swanson, CBS News, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Instead, a 26-year-old woman wearing moccasins and a Native American buckskin dress strode up the steps.
    — Julian Mark, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Janis Joplin growled onstage in a fringed buckskin jacket, and Dolly Parton doubled down on rhinestones and cleavage.
    — Sarah Hepola, ELLE, 12 Sep. 2022
  • The Warrior, portrayed by a student, wears a fringed, buckskin-like costume that includes a headdress adorned with feathers of pale blue, one of Maine West’s school colors.
    — John Keilman, chicagotribune.com, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Wearing a fringed buckskin dress and moccasins, Littlefeather refused to take the trophy proffered by presenter Roger Moore.
    — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Wearing a fringed buckskin dress and moccasins, Littlefeather refused to take the Oscar proffered by presenter Roger Moore.
    — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2022
  • The living room window sills are lined with animal skulls and crystals, and the walls are hung with Carnegie portraits, including a painting of Lucy seated upon a buckskin, wearing a red head scarf and sheathed knife.
    — New York Times, 21 Aug. 2021
  • Cowboys and frontiersmen adopted the embellishment from American Indian tribes, which cut tassels into suede buckskins or deer hides to keep warm and to camouflage them in the wild.
    — Ari Stark, WWD, 3 July 2024
  • The studio photograph of Theodore Roosevelt in a buckskin hunting costume, rifle at the ready, remains one of the most iconic images of the American conservation movement.
    — Philip Dray, Time, 1 May 2018
  • Advertisement Think of Jets and Sharks decked out in buckskins or Yankee blue, ambling down our grubby streets, swapping mad-dog stares or whistling a few bars of those taunting tunes — pushing, egging, daring someone to start something.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Her appearance at the 45th Academy Awards was the first time a Native American woman had stood onstage at the ceremony, she in a glimmering buckskin dress, moccasins and hair ties.
    — Eduardo Medina, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2022
  • The mind thrills to imagine a genderless prophet among the brocades and buckskin breeches of Revolutionary America, weirding out the normies, sticking a flower in the barrel of a musket, and goading the new nation to let its hair down—literally.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Hagel named his 9-year-old buckskin gelding Shamrock, after his high school mascot, and Rumsfeld named his Montana, because the arid, mountainous landscape around the Mongolian capital reminded him of that state.
    — Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Before the Beatles, there was the 1950s and wholesome All-American Boone with his perfectly coiffed hair, white suede buckskin shoes, fetching smile and a smooth voice that made millions of teenage girls, and likely their mothers, swoon.
    — Rosemarie Dowell, OrlandoSentinel.com, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Baker’s Indigenous and German heritage inform her three large abstract collage hangings, created using synthetic turf animated by acrylic paint, yarn and a variety of natural materials, including corn husk, willow, buffalo hide and buckskin.
    — Grant Klarich Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The title track single recalls hitmakers like Anne Murray and Barbara Mandrell, except for the faint Auto-Tune ripples and an undisguised buckskin ‘Bama accent that brands an otherwise basic anti-fancy metaphor.
    — Will Hermes, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2026

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