navel
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Silvana Armani, the Italian designer's niece, offered black-and-white dresses and ensembles, with necklines sometimes plunging all the way to the navel.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
If you get a stud in your navel or a little tattoo on your ankle, you aren’t likely to look back later and kick yourself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
Lose, though, and it's navel gazing time again.
From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2024
He approached a navel orange tree with some scorched branches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2024
“Here’s fifty cents, Francie. Go out and get a quarter pound of sweet butter, a box of soda crackers and two navel oranges. Tell the man you want navel. Say they’re for a sick lady.”
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
Paint that survived was sometimes concealed in recesses: between strands of hair, or inside navels, nostrils, and mouths.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 22, 2018
Like other rorqual whales, humpbacks’ throats expand in rubbery pleats reaching down to their navels.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 20, 2018
And one of the things that the media loves to do is gaze at their navels for hours on end by a tweet from Donald Trump or from me or from anybody else.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 5, 2016
Hollywood's Hays production codes allowed two-piece gowns but prohibited navels on-screen.
From Slate ● Jul. 3, 2015
Finally the sisters would cross themselves from their foreheads to their navels, and it would be over.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
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