What is "pinstriped"

Usage examples of "pinstriped".

Her pulse quickened and she felt herself floating away from her body, staring down at her small, pale form, shaking beneath the pinstriped suit as if she were made of feathers and a great wind had just blown her insides apart.

He snapped back to semireality when a black fucker wearing a blue pinstriped shirt, suit trousers, and mellow-yellow suspenders answered the door.

They were dressed in pinstriped suits and merry-hats, and they weren't just the European duskies he'd seen so often.

Even now, after all, there was that pinstriped collarless shirt and the silvery slant of hair, those perfect teeth glinting between the thin Peck lips, the waxy gray cord of his hearing aid and the deep-socketed eyes, closed but still leaking their blueness into the white of the lids.

This particular Sunday, with a brisk, cool wind blowing in from the Huang Pu River, Zilin, dressed in a dark pinstriped business suit, entered the precincts of the cemetery clutching in his white fists the joss sticks that he ritually lit in front of the grave while he knelt, reciting the Buddhist sutras that should have been said at the funeral Mai had never had.

Doug had turned the answering machine off, and in his haste to get up and race to the phone in the kitchen he overturned his salad plate and spilled some of the oil and vinegar dressing on the front of his pinstriped pants.

Hiro chases him down by following a series of educated guesses -- he knows this territory like Raven knows the currents of the Aleutians -- and then they are blasting through the narrow streets of the Metaverse's financial district, waving long knives at each other, slicing and dicing hundreds of pinstriped avatars who happen to get in their way.

Hiro chases him down by following a series of educated guesses-he knows this territory like Raven knows the currents of the Aleutians-and then they are blasting through the narrow streets of the Metaverse's financial district, waving long knives at each other, slicing and dicing hundreds of pinstriped avatars who happen to get in their way.