brassiere

Example Sentences

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The film’s laughs come from empathy, not derision, when a brassiere saleswoman tut-tuts that Margaret is “not even a 32A.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 25, 2023

Only when DNA technology advanced to the point where a complete genetic profile could be developed from evidence gleaned from the girl’s brassiere could a solid link be made, Detective Leah Wagner said.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 22, 2020

And yet he is very much alive when I meet him at a crowded ancient brassiere called the Cafe de la Concorde for lunch in the heart of Toulouse.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2018

And there is Gail Chovan, a designer and teacher in Austin, Tex., who after a double mastectomy rejected breast reconstruction and the padded brassiere her mother had urged her to wear.

From New York Times • May 23, 2017

On the streetcar going back, I read the advertisements: a beer, a chocolate bar, a brassiere turning into a bird.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood