How to Use leisure suit in a Sentence

leisure suit

noun
  • Do not pull your old leisure suit out of the back of your closet.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Dust off that leisure suit or flashy disco dress and bone up on your moves!
    — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 25 Aug. 2021
  • Way too few guests sit at the bar, an old man in a leisure suit sleeps in a booth.
    — Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Now if the bullpen cart makes a comeback, can the leisure suit be far behind?
    — Mike Hart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Athleisure started to give way to leisure suits, just good ones this time around.
    — Jonathan Evans, Esquire, 21 Sep. 2017
  • Don’t skip out on the movie’s memorable disco scenes, leisure suits and city grime.
    — Jennifer Vineyard, New York Times, 1 June 2018
  • Mark explained that some fabrics are better for business suits, others for leisure suits.
    — Gary Shteyngart, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The bad ones end up in the dustbin of history along with leisure suits, pet rocks, mullets, and disco.
    — William Becker, The Hill, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Well, there were a few leisure suits, but they were draped on the bodies of men with disappointingly strong moral fiber.
    — David Harsanyi, National Review, 12 Sep. 2019
  • And the coaching staff even stepped into the past, donning 1970s-era sport coats and leisure suits.
    — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 9 Oct. 2019
  • My father’s powder-blue polyester leisure suit with the shirt collar extending almost to the shoulders—cringe.
    — Lloyd Blankfein, Vanity Fair, 19 Feb. 2026
  • But this role has Johnson fitted in polyester leisure suits, shirts unbuttoned low enough to show off his chest hair and, of course, those gaudy rings.
    — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2023
  • The man in the white leisure suit and owlish glasses appeared at my desk, seeking a newspaper article about his religious group.
    — Dallas News, 19 Jan. 2023
  • There would be no union reps at family weddings, no sanitation experts turning up at picnics in their white shoes or leisure suits.
    — David Harsanyi, National Review, 12 Sep. 2019
  • There’s a running gag, for instance, about Leaphorn and Manuelito’s disdain for Chee’s new polyester leisure suit.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 30 July 2023
  • Within the dark shade, the ultra-baggy Bermuda board short paired with sleeveless numbers and lace-up shoes with tonal knee-high socks emerged as a new leisure suit of sorts.
    — Alex Badia, WWD, 18 June 2024
  • Oh, sure, there was Billie Eilish in her Chanel leisure suit with its array of patches, along with her dagger-like dark nails and her green hair.
    — Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2020
  • In apparent homage to the leisure suit, the blazer is double breasted, the trousers are flared wide, and the turtleneck is mock and of indeterminate synthetic fabric.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Even the music and hairstyles were divisive in the mid-1970s, not to mention the clothes — from the powder-blue leisure suits and skin-tight disco duds to denim, denim and more denim.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 4 July 2025
  • Those off-putting mustard yellows, algae greens and Cheeto oranges that bubbled up long ago, making leisure suits and turtlenecks uneasy on the eyes, are as dead as disco; what endures are the decade’s autumnal tones, rich not kitsch.
    — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2017
  • His tenor is white-hot, piercing through the orchestra, threatening to burst into flames as Hades, in his sleazy green leisure suit, leers at Eurydice and stretches the syllables of her name into a sinister design.
    — Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2021

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