underthings

Example Sentences

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Another, more eccentric retelling, Nicholas de Monchaux’s terrific book “Spacesuit,” from 2011, describes how Italian-American seamstresses, accustomed to making women’s underthings, made the astronauts’ overthings.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 20, 2019

Buyers can purchase packs of 3, 8, or 15 of these tags, depending on if you want to attach it to all your wardrobe staples, only your underthings, or just your workout wear.

From Slate • Nov. 16, 2017

Rejects are flung back in the general direction of salespeople wearing tags with Nabokovian names like Amanda Q. Along with outerwear, Uniqlo is bullish on underthings.

From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2011

You may well laugh to the point of pee stains in your underthings, and if you think that's gratuitous you have no idea.

From Salon • Feb. 24, 2011

She especially hated handling Henry’s underthings, marked as they were with his sweat and smells.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez