armpit
Example Sentences
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Natalie slipped her arms under Tía’s armpits, but she’d only managed to get her neighbor’s head above water before the next wave hit, pushing them all into the front wall again.
From Literature
Kutcher said he washed his “armpits and ... crotch daily and nothing else ever,” while Kunis said there was “no point” to bathing children unless you could “see the dirt on them.”
From Los Angeles Times
I close my eyes as the cop’s hands begin patting my shoulders, move on to my armpits, my legs, but I can still see the lights like lightning through my eyelids.
From Literature
“He lived in Bakersfield, which is the armpit of California,” Hankel says.
In a typical scene, Miss Holland, played by Van der Velden with milkmaid braids and hairy armpits, chokes on the aerosol of a spray tan.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
