suspender

Example Sentences

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Puns abound, with the Sun trying: "Hey big suspender."

From BBC • Aug. 29, 2019

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

Then they will focus on the less-stable parts: they will replace all the suspender ropes, which are spaced every 60 feet.

From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2011

Now if they can hold on to Somalia and bring Ethiopia into their orbit, they will have hooked a suspender onto the belt.

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