obi

Example Sentences

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They value efficiency and aesthetics above all other considerations, and they end up a graveyard of lost opportunities: How will the jacket or the obi interact with the buckram?

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2023

“The present is a gift,” she said, fan tucked in her obi — the wide kimono sash — pink and white parasol in her Hello Kitty shoulder bag.

From Washington Post • Mar. 23, 2022

Mixing that inspiration with the helmets of the Japanese Goldrake robots, Mr. Tisci’s imagination produced the most slender and delicate dresses, using Japanese cranes as symbols and abstractions of an obi sash in leather.

From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2011

Yves Saint Laurent's Stefano Pilati was all about the waist, fitting the ample '50s-inspired suits with obi belts and strange, misplaced cummerbunds in leopard knits.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 25, 2010

He led the way into his dim obi, which smelled of mushrooms.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie