How to Use hot pants in a Sentence

hot pants

plural noun
  • Here, servers don’t wear orange hot pants and low-cut tank tops.
    — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 24 Feb. 2021
  • If only hot pants in high places alliances weren’t so tricky.
    — Minerva, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Oct. 2017
  • Deep plunge tops, hot pants and halter-neck tops and dresses are key items.
    — Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The lace hot pants, fishnet skirt, sheer stockings and…okay, those shoes with the cutout heart?
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 3 May 2022
  • The sun is out in Milan, and so are midriff-baring crop tops and hot pants.
    — Acielle / Style Du Monde, Vogue, 17 June 2022
  • Wear red-white-and-blue shirts, red-white-and-blue baseball caps, and red-white-and-blue hot pants.
    — Yascha Mounk, Slate Magazine, 9 Feb. 2017
  • Once the weather starts to warm up, expect to see barely-there shorts and hot pants take over.
    — Sarah Boyd, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2023
  • Another wears hot pants and pink lipstick.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Brown took the stage in a pair of red cowboy boots and a matching top, jacket and a pair of hot pants.
    — Marissa G. Muller, Peoplemag, 5 May 2023
  • One of them might have been a triangular crop top showing off my midriff and some hot pants.
    — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Not hot pants, but short Watchdog items about matters that may affect your life.
    — Dallas News, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Flight attendants famously wore hot pants and knee-high go-go boots.
    — Dan Reed, Forbes, 17 June 2021
  • For the girl who likes to flaunt it, there's the classic hot pant—short shorts for those who have legs, and know how to use them.
    — Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Jan. 2019
  • Some of her other items, like the miniskirt and short shorts known as hot pants, were unabashedly provocative.
    — Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The actress showed off her whale tail, layering a thong underneath her hot pants.
    — Hannah Malach, InStyle, 10 Mar. 2026
  • In the photos, Fox posed in sparkling hot pants and a tight bikini top that sparked the discussion.
    — Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Some wore mermaid-teal skirts, country-western hot pants, or minidresses festooned with hearts and stars.
    — Sara Messinger, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Kendall completed the outfit with white hot pants and a sleek pair of black leather loafers from The Row.
    — Alex Kessler, Vogue, 1 July 2023
  • Chavez even gave fans a cheeky look at another very revealing outfit — this one with a fringe belt layered over hot pants.
    — Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Tiny Shorts The mercury isn’t the only thing rising; hot pants are still going strong.
    — Irene Kim, Vogue, 31 July 2024
  • There were cowboy boots and heels and peasant skirts and hot pants and bandannas and military jackets.
    — Greta Gerwig, Vogue, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Indeed, this appeared to be the first pair of hot pants in the history of the Oscars red carpet.
    — Rory Satran, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Seyfried kept the comfort-first theme going through her outfit, opting for a blush pink ribbed button-up top and matching hot pants.
    — Kelsey Stewart, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • In her multi-color canvas jacket and matching hot pants, the star was in her element and right on time to join the fun.
    — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 15 Apr. 2021
  • To paint the picture, Rodrigo belts her heart out wearing only a bra and hot pants at one point during the concert.
    — Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 1 Mar. 2024
  • For that look, Banks took a bit more creative license, forgoing Spears' glittery hot pants for a long green skirt.
    — Dan Heching, PEOPLE.com, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Lyonne paired the statement top with a pair of barely-there black leather hot pants, black aviator sunglasses, and black suede leather thigh-high boots.
    — Lara Walsh, InStyle, 22 June 2026
  • Kim Kardashian West and Miley Cyrus have stepped out in sequined flag hot pants.
    — Cindy Dampier, chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2018
  • During Carnevale, children dressed up as the precocious gangsters, with leather hot pants and jackets, tank tops, lots of chains and toy guns.
    — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 30 July 2023
  • The first two dozen looks in his show basically consisted of black drain-pipe trousers with a skimpy top and jacket and black hot pants with a skimpy top and jacket.
    — Cathy Horyn, The Cut, 28 Feb. 2018

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