thong

Example Sentences

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In a recent acrylic painting she calls “The Big Bang,” she depicts a Black woman facing away from the viewer, a gun in her thong and her middle finger up.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 16, 2022

With that technique, the hand moves up and down, keeping the whip mostly in a vertical plane as the thong stretches toward a target in front.

From New York Times • Oct. 4, 2022

Now think of all the trends that originated with those two: the selfie, purse dogs, contouring, thong heels, public awareness of and/or emotional investment in Kylie and Caitlyn Jenner, to name a few.

From Salon • Feb. 3, 2022

Watching “Do It Debbie’s Way,” I picture a trio of women in 1983: Fisher posing in her iron thong, Reynolds lunging in her raspberry spandex, and Winters lounging in her oversized sweatshirt.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 9, 2019

The whalebone knife I used for prying abalones from the rocks was tied to a thong at my waist.

From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell