cuffs

Example Sentences

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No Gucci loafers with suits, and no French cuffs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 7, 2026

If I were to name it more plainly, I might call it Beatrix Potter weather: damp cuffs, garden gates, the feeling that something is pushing up just beneath the soil.

From Salon • Mar. 1, 2026

The collection also featured brocade capes, puffer jackets and long wool coats with oversized fur cuffs.

From Barron's • Jan. 21, 2026

I was trying to tell them that I am putting my hands behind my back, that my hands are behind my back, and that I am trying to let them put the cuffs on me.

From Slate • Jul. 28, 2025

“The problem is that these are only designed to carry two sets of cuffs at the most,” she muttered under her breath as she attached one set to each hip.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin