undergarment

Example Sentences

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Some women swear by period underwear, a type of undergarment engineered to absorb menstrual blood.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 23, 2022

This fitted undergarment ushered in an age when dresses had very narrow midsections.

From Scientific American • Apr. 26, 2022

Masks were worn as though they had long been standard fashion, a garment no more desired than some restricting undergarment but socially necessary all the same.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 27, 2021

“If your dress flares out at your knees, you need shapewear that goes beyond that so you won’t see the break between the undergarment and your dress.”

From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2021

His father was in the ladies’ undergarment business with his brothers, on the sixth floor of what is now a fancy loft at Broadway and Spring Street in S0H0.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell