waistband
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The waistband was high enough to give crush his lungs, but that didn't stop him recreating the video's fluid, technically-challenging choreography on stage.
From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2026
And then, they show one agent removing Pretti’s licensed handgun—which he was carrying in compliance with state law—from his waistband.
From Slate ● Jan. 25, 2026
Participants wore waistband pedometers to track physical activity and underwent PET scans to measure amyloid-beta plaques and tau tangles in the brain.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2025
According to a Granbury police report, an off-duty officer spotted a black pistol in a holster in Cliff Criswell’s waistband and alerted school and city police.
From Salon ● May 15, 2024
Dr. Zinchenko consulted the very advanced smartphone clipped to the waistband of her bright red pantsuit.
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
The cuffs and waistbands that form a snug seal around a baby’s legs and waist are called the gasketing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
So we sink into the couch, plates on laps, clothed in pants with elastic waistbands.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2025
"Our widening waistbands are also placing significant burden on our health service," he said in an opinion piece for the Telegraph.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2024
“Their breasts were tied to their waistbands, they had four or five babies wrapped around them and they had baskets on their head,” he recalled by phone in advance of his book’s launch.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2022
One bandit splits open waistbands, collars, and cuffs looking for hidden money.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
