panties

Example Sentences

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“You pull up your big-girl panties and you do what you got to do,” Applegate says.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026

He also poked fun at Harry Styles' fashion sense, joking: "Women throw their panties at this man, then he puts them on and looks better in them."

From BBC • Feb. 6, 2023

Bradford told Logan, "You need to get some new underwear, Butterball," something she had discovered after finding tattered panties in the laundry.

From Salon • Nov. 22, 2022

"I said before the game you better put on your big girl panties and rebound," LSU coach Kim Mulkey said.

From Fox News • Jan. 7, 2022

I’ve gotten so thin, I’ve had to take in the waistbands of all my panties and stuff the cups of my brassiere with handkerchiefs.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez