Example Sentences

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While line judges sported pristine starched white caps, and ball boys and girls wilted under kepis, Hogenkamp stood out from the crowd.

From Reuters • Jul. 1, 2015

Sunburned legionnaires in khaki shorts and kepis stood watch over arriving passengers.

From BBC • Feb. 20, 2014

French officials in crisp kepis stood side by side with their British counterparts in pith helmets as De Gaulle, without a flinch, cried: "Vive la France, Vive le Royaume Uni!"

From Time Magazine Archive

Many of the legionnaires are German�lean, hard-mouthed, blond men in white kepis, their pockets stuffed with grenades.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was a little stream and a bridge, and Spanish carabineers, with patent-leather Bonaparte hats, and short guns on their backs, on one side, and on the other fat Frenchmen in kepis and mustaches.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway