suspender

Example Sentences

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Badu wore a black silk duchess gown with white satin buttons, sportcoat and suspender skirt.

From BBC • Sep. 14, 2021

Vertical suspender cables held up the deck, transferring its weight to giant suspension cables and out to enormous anchorages.

From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2017

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

Often enough he emerges, in radiant triumph, bearing the esthetic equivalent of a rusty beer can or an old suspender.

From Time Magazine Archive

His costume was high-topped shoes and old-time britches held up by one suspender.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck