panties

Example Sentences

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“You pull up your big-girl panties and you do what you got to do,” Applegate says.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026

He also poked fun at Harry Styles' fashion sense, joking: "Women throw their panties at this man, then he puts them on and looks better in them."

From BBC • Feb. 6, 2023

Bradford told Logan, "You need to get some new underwear, Butterball," something she had discovered after finding tattered panties in the laundry.

From Salon • Nov. 22, 2022

"I said before the game you better put on your big girl panties and rebound," LSU coach Kim Mulkey said.

From Fox News • Jan. 7, 2022

A big heap lies on the floor: school clothes and dresses and torn blouses all thrown together with panties and shoes.

From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez