Military uniform

Usage examples of khakis.

Officers in creased khakis and crew in dungarees began to look familiar to each other.

In the dim light he saw a short, swarthy ensign in shapeless frayed khakis standing over him.

There were two bunks installed against the curving hull, and a desk piled three feet high with books, pamphlets, wire baskets full of papers, and registered publi-cations in a scrambled heap, on top of which was a stack of freshly laundered khakis, socks, and underwear.

He found the captain, in smart tropical khakis festooned with campaign ribbons, chatting with the nurses and the Keefer brothers.

He stood out in the warm rain in his khakis, shielding his binoculars under his arm, deny-ing himself the protection of the pilothouse in the vague in-tention of demonstrating that he was a real seaman.

There it lay, dissolving to a pulp inside the crumpled khakis, while the ship steamed through maneuvers for the next two days.

It was such a retyped form that lay moldering in Willie's khakis in the clip shack.

He was dressed in wrinkled, sweaty khakis, and it was his misfortune to have no hips at all, so that his frayed gun belt sagged slantwise, pre-cariously supported by his rump.

They made a neat picture of the old and the new: De Vriess tieless and comfortable in faded khakis, Queeg correct in stiff white collar and fresh campaign ribbons.

Lieutenant Gorton appeared there at eight-thirty, dressed in his cleanest, newest khakis, with gleaming fresh collar pins.

Queeg, natty as his bulbous figure per-mitted in gabardine khakis, sat with his fingers laced tightly together in his lap.

Spray flew all over his life jacket and khakis, and drenched the backs of the crouching marines in front of him.

Reality was the rolling minesweeper, and the sea, and shabby khakis, and binoculars, and the captain's buzzer.

His last vivid recollection was of a little stooped pot-bellied figure in a gray life jacket and wet khakis, clinging to the engine telegraph, the bristly face green and twisted with fear.

A couple of the new ensigns who had jumped overboard stood at the rope in fresh khakis, peering down into the hole and laughing.