brassiere

Example Sentences

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“The odd couple,” he barks, lifting up a brassiere fashioned so that one cup is larger than the other.

From New York Times • Jun. 19, 2024

The film’s laughs come from empathy, not derision, when a brassiere saleswoman tut-tuts that Margaret is “not even a 32A.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 25, 2023

Only when DNA technology advanced to the point where a complete genetic profile could be developed from evidence gleaned from the girl’s brassiere could a solid link be made, Detective Leah Wagner said.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 22, 2020

The US actress and singer, now 83, also patented a brassiere with hidden straps.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2017

What I see first is a picture: the Venus de Milo, in a black-and- white photo, with a mustache and a black brassiere and armpit hair drawn clumsily on her.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood