suspender

Example Sentences

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Badu wore a black silk duchess gown with white satin buttons, sportcoat and suspender skirt.

From BBC • Sep. 14, 2021

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

García, de 55 años, dijo que decidió suspender el esfuerzo revocatorio durante una llamada telefónica del martes por la noche con otros organizadores, pero que podría volver si Giménez reniega de sus promesas.

From Washington Times • Oct. 2, 2014

If the 283 wires within each suspender rope were laid end-to-end, they would be 9,100 miles long — more than one-third of the circumference of the earth around the equator.

From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2011

His costume was high-topped shoes and old-time britches held up by one suspender.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck