How to Use epaulet in a Sentence

epaulet

noun
  • At Brown’s request, the uniforms were gray with red epaulets.
    — Catherine Baty, Baltimore Sun, 7 July 2023
  • Clarke’s four-star epaulets are standard for a chief of police or sheriff.
    — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 26 May 2017
  • British ship engineers wear purple stripes on their epaulets.
    — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 10 May 2020
  • It’s finished with stylish epaulets, wide cuffs, a collared neckline, and bunched hem.
    — Emily Weaver, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Nili Lotan showed slouchy fits with a tinted dirty wash, as well as a jean jacket with epaulets.
    — Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 14 Jan. 2026
  • None has any money—or any epaulets, in the case of one questionable officer.
    — Dan Hofstadter, WSJ, 25 May 2018
  • But the impact of what the witness wore didn’t come solely from the golden epaulets and shiny buttons and medals.
    — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2019
  • Earlier in his tenure, Bradshaw wore an epaulet on each shoulder, with five stars on each.
    — Anthony Man, sun-sentinel.com, 14 Oct. 2019
  • The other was an official air force photo with a gold star denoting his new rank affixed to the shoulder epaulet.
    — Joshua Goodman, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Its various elements — the lapels, epaulets, belt — were misplaced and reworked.
    — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2020
  • On his eighth birthday, he was presented with a general's uniform, complete with gold buttons and epaulets and things.
    — CBS News, 19 June 2019
  • This suede jacket has an angled front zipper, peaked lapels, shoulder epaulets, and a variety of zippered and welt pockets.
    — Jamie Allison Sanders, People.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • The jacket featured box-pleated patch pockets, shoulder epaulets, and a waist-clinching buckled belt and landed right at her hip.
    — Fn Staff, Footwear News, 18 Sep. 2025
  • There are the epaulets Hamilton wore after receiving a promotion.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 27 June 2018
  • His regimental coat was festooned with epaulets (fringed) and silver buttons (dazzling).
    — Caity Weaver, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Railway employees are supposed to wear crisp, white Myanmar Railways shirts with epaulets.
    — Photographs and Text By Adam Dean, New York Times, 12 June 2017
  • Hosting duties are handled by epaulet owning martinet and editor in chief Tony Quiroga.
    — John Pearley Huffman, Car and Driver, 30 June 2022
  • Outlier, a New York brand, makes perhaps the most minimal trench of the bunch—an epaulet-free, belt-free coat that swaps buttons for snaps.
    — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2018
  • To this day, many contemporary models feature epaulets that would have originally been used to suspend gloves and whistles, and D-rings that could have held grenades.
    — Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Neely asked Harper, a fellow tribute artist, for dance tips, and honed his craft over the next few years, eventually buying a jacket with epaulets and mastering the full look.
    — Curbed, 4 May 2023
  • Queen Angela's escort was smartly dressed in regimental blue, with gold epaulets befitting high rank and renown, and the queen's train required four attendants.
    — Michael Dumas, AL.com, 7 Feb. 2018
  • Williams likes to pose for photographs and make public addresses wearing his bright green sultan’s uniform, complete with faux military awards, golden epaulets and tinted sunglasses.
    — Richard Collett, CNN, 8 June 2023
  • Most mannequins were outfitted in supple (and seriously expensive) deerskin loafers; raincoats also came with deerskin epaulets (actual rain be damned).
    — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 18 June 2018
  • Just the sight of its four front pockets, epaulets, and khaki cloth is enough to conjure a lost world of Land Rovers and sundowners, Hemingwayesque heroes and endless savannahs.
    — Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 8 June 2026
  • However, some important parts of the collection — including a significant diamond, an elaborate brooch and an epaulet — are still missing and others are damaged or oxidized.
    — Christopher F. Schuetze, New York Times, 16 May 2023
  • Dressed in a blue frock coat and epaulets with three stars on the shoulders, a black slouch hat and carrying a cigar, the Kenosha man looks like the general who led Union troops to victory and became America's 18th president.
    — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 May 2018

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