suspender
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The Oscars ceremony included a performance of the song, with its rapid-kick choreography and roguish suspender snapping.
From New York Times ● Mar. 12, 2023
Badu wore a black silk duchess gown with white satin buttons, sportcoat and suspender skirt.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2021
He pops open the flip phone stored in the shirt pocket between his suspender straps and calls the number for a voicemail set up specifically for this purpose.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 19, 2015
The fashion designer Thom Browne, no stranger to the outer reaches of fantasy, put the butlers in androgynous black-tie uniforms with shorts, suspender socks and wildly exaggerated cuffs.
From New York Times ● Dec. 26, 2013
His costume was high-topped shoes and old-time britches held up by one suspender.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
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Often duded up in a cowboy hat and suspenders, Eatherly had a knack for marketing and proved to be an exceptional conman.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
Its Intel profits alone would make Gordon Gekko hang up his suspenders.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
Presiding over the festivities was Frank Seddio, the club’s 79-year-old chairman, who was wearing suspenders and a monogrammed dress shirt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025
Bob Hoyt, who was wearing a leather chauffeur hat and yellow suspenders that look liked measuring tape, served in the Navy from 1966 to 1970.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2025
I liked it because it was green and it hid my suspenders.
From "The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child" by Francisco Jiménez
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