midriff
Example Sentences
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Wearing a black-and-white ensemble that bares her midriff, she tucks her feet under her and treats our chat like a gab session.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2026
Each picture is composed just so, to accentuate her best features: the long, swanlike neck; the well-toned midriff; the high, strong shoulders; the ramrod posture; and—this feels new—the gaunt cheeks and picture-perfect jawline.
From Slate • Jan. 31, 2024
That rhythmically rattling bank of equipment to your left, whose component parts look as if they were pulled from the midriff of C-3PO?
From Seattle Times • Jan. 26, 2024
A young woman walks down a street in Tehran, her hair uncovered, her jeans ripped, a bit of midriff exposed to the hot Iranian sun.
From BBC • Sep. 15, 2023
Across the midriff of her dress was a sheer mesh inset of a Lone Star Flag.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
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