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
For the time being, I held on to my socks and panties, and I tossed in my toiletry case entire.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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