suspender

Example Sentences

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Your former editor Graydon Carter bought you a bespoke Anderson & Sheppard suit for your birthday and overruled you on your choice of belt loops vs. suspender buttons.

From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2019

Puns abound, with the Sun trying: "Hey big suspender."

From BBC • Aug. 29, 2019

He pops open the flip phone stored in the shirt pocket between his suspender straps and calls the number for a voicemail set up specifically for this purpose.

From Washington Post • Mar. 19, 2015

Now if they can hold on to Somalia and bring Ethiopia into their orbit, they will have hooked a suspender onto the belt.

From Time Magazine Archive

West, Ryan Dean: A discovery of true Zen-like perfection, I got a leopard-spotted caveman-loincloth kind of thing that had one suspender strap that tied in a knot over the shoulder.

From "Winger" by Andrew Smith