How to Use doublet in a Sentence

doublet

noun
  • The image is rather appealing: fool’s cap and bells, the Elizabethan doublet, the shrewd old eyes darting about, the voice cackling puns and rhymes, barbs and shafts.
    Herb Caen, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Now, the sparrows that came up with the doublet seem tired of their own popular tune, Gizmodo reports.
    Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2020
  • Now there are festivals festooned with doublets and hose all around the nation all summer long.
    Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 4 Aug. 2019
  • Shakespeare himself is the villain, a rockstar in a tight, shiny doublet with a spiky metal collar.
    Christine Pivovar, kansascity, 26 July 2017
  • There, overwintering young males from eastern Canada could learn the catchy song with the doublet ending.
    Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2020
  • In 2004, the data shows that about half of the white-throated sparrows in Alberta, the province just east of British Columbia, had picked up the doublet-ending song.
    Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2020
  • All those plumed headpieces and richly textured gowns, those snug doublets flared at the waist, could have come straight out of the Sun King’s courtly entertainments.
    John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 1 Oct. 2017
  • By 2015, every sparrow west of central Ontario was singing the doublet ending.
    Corryn Wetzel, National Geographic, 2 July 2020
  • The tiny pendants on Tea Flower’s tutu and the gorgeous chocolate doublet, hose, boots and cloak of Cocoa’s attire are among the my favorite marvels here.
    Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2017
  • Hiddleston sports a lot of it — from some body-hugging breeches to an assortment of doublets with v-necks deep enough to leave room for someone to draw a map of England on his chest.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 4 Nov. 2019
  • Layered underneath is a jerkin, a close-fitting jacket, with a red horizontal brocade and doublet.
    Liesl Bradner, latimes.com, 10 Feb. 2018
  • Here are some of the best enchanting and moving modern versions of celestial jewelry: Venyx’s opal doublet Galaxy pendant with diamonds set into the stars and around the border.
    Beth Bernstein, Forbes, 15 June 2021
  • The fact that doublets exist is a reminder that people should be on guard that a big quake can be followed up by a subsequent quake.
    Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026
  • In a doublet, the first earthquake relieves stress on one fault while increasing it on a nearby fault.
    Kenton Gewecke, ABC News, 25 June 2026

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