on the cuff
Example Sentences
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"I think people just want the live genre to be respected and people not to think that they can just come and do a show on the cuff," she says.
From BBC • Aug. 13, 2024
Art had made a formal shirt for me with a spread collar back in 2022, monogrammed with my initials on the cuff.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2024
Jackson laced up her oversized practice gloves with her nickname, “T REX,” on the cuff — 16 ounces, compared with the 10-ounce gloves she fights in.
From Washington Post • Jan. 15, 2020
He wore a custom Western shirt made as a tribute to the 1959 film “Rio Bravo,” which was signed on the cuff by Angie Dickinson, one of its stars.
From New York Times • Aug. 14, 2019
She was wearing her black pants and a white shirt with a faded soy-sauce stain on the cuff, and from this Mia knew she was headed in to work.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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