How do you use Tweedy in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like homespun or nubby, plus the exact meaning.
Tweedy meaning
- Made of tweed, or having a similar rough texture.
- Wearing tweed clothing.
- Preppy.
Using Tweedy
- The main meaning on this page is: Made of tweed, or having a similar rough texture. | Wearing tweed clothing. | Preppy.
- Useful related words include: homespun, nubby, nubbly, slubbed.
- In the example corpus, tweedy often appears in combinations such as: jeff tweedy, cheryl tweedy, tweedy the.
Context around Tweedy
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 7 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tweedy
- In this selection, "tweedy" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 22 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, jeff, cheryl, john, wilco, wouldn and rio stand out and add context to how "tweedy" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and cheryl tweedy and between cheryl tweedy left and. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tweedy" sits close to words such as aapi, aarey and aberdare, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tweedy
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
That same year, Girls Aloud singer Cheryl Tweedy walked into his life. (12 words)
His wife, Susan Miller Tweedy, detailed the incident in a Facebook post. (12 words)
Gov. John A. Love, speaker at the dinner, was introduced by John Tweedy. (13 words)
They need to feel threatened and they should feel threatened because there can be no future in Britain in the 21st century for a rural economy dependent on tweedy gentlemen coming from the south to slaughter our wildlife. (38 words)
But solo doesn’t mean simple for Tweedy, since he has taken the troubadour’s guitar/vocal approach and twisted it to his suit the adventurousness he favors with his day-job band. (33 words)
Released Thursday, “All In It Together” teams her with Jeff Tweedy of Wilco, in an effort that is at once a Staples Singers song and a Wilco song. (28 words)
Example sentences (20)
Gov. John A. Love, speaker at the dinner, was introduced by John Tweedy.
Jeff Tweedy (Wilco) has a gem of a gift book with World Within a Song, where he escorts readers through 50 songs that changed his life.
Louisa is taking on the role of Jenny, following in the footsteps of Lily Allen, Jaime Winstone and Cheryl Tweedy.
Perfectly paired with Tweedy, the mellow and charming alt-country ditty sounds like something the Wilco frontman may have written himself at one point.
Tweedy wouldn’t share his father’s views on Israel, but he said everyone in the family has their own perspective.
Holly joins public figures including Cheryl Tweedy, Rio Ferdinand and Boris Johnson who have all enjoyed stays at the Lion Lodge.
Rooney, centre, between Cheryl Tweedy, left, and Victoria Beckham at the Fifa World Cup in Nuremberg, Germany, on 15 June 2006.
They need to feel threatened and they should feel threatened because there can be no future in Britain in the 21st century for a rural economy dependent on tweedy gentlemen coming from the south to slaughter our wildlife.
At this point in his extended career, Jeff Tweedy possesses any number of credits as applied to his extensive resume.
I'm getting to be an old man and I can't out-run it," says Tweedy.
Like most everything Tweedy, it’s complicated and beautiful and strange and great.
Released Thursday, “All In It Together” teams her with Jeff Tweedy of Wilco, in an effort that is at once a Staples Singers song and a Wilco song.
That same year, Girls Aloud singer Cheryl Tweedy walked into his life.
Treney Tweedy, the mayor of Lynchburg said that she has received several inquiries from community members who are incensed about Falwell’s decision to reopen the campus.
His wife, Susan Miller Tweedy, detailed the incident in a Facebook post.
Jeff Tweedy and keyboardist Mikael Jorgensen of Wilco perform with the band at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival on May 5, 2017.
Tweedy’s restrained vocals, meanwhile, are as dignified as the minimal music, their honesty exposed in unpolished edges.
But solo doesn’t mean simple for Tweedy, since he has taken the troubadour’s guitar/vocal approach and twisted it to his suit the adventurousness he favors with his day-job band.
Conor is the son of former Queensland Reds player Sean Tweedy, now a senior lecturer at the University of Queensland on physical activity and disability.
In 1980, Lapierre met Jules Chauvet, a tweedy local wine merchant, then in his 70s, who had been making small amounts of wine without additives for years.
Common combinations with tweedy
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: