suspender
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He had looped the drawstring of his sweatpants around the back of his head like a suspender.
From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2019
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
If the 283 wires within each suspender rope were laid end-to-end, they would be 9,100 miles long — more than one-third of the circumference of the earth around the equator.
From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2011
His costume was high-topped shoes and old-time britches held up by one suspender.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
Its Intel profits alone would make Gordon Gekko hang up his suspenders.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
Looped into the traction and stability systems and the smartest brakes on the planet, the Turbo S’s high-voltage suspenders represent a major advance in client preservation technology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 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
A family of boys in suspenders appears; behind them are sandbags displaying paper targets with human outlines.
From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2024
It seemed like my old suspenders were always twisted.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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