Example Sentences

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Practically overnight, I had to adjust to how my new glasses slid down my nose and the way the elastics tethered to my braces snapped like rubber bands in a junk drawer.

From Salon • Apr. 3, 2025

So silk scrunchies are a go-to at home: “They don’t pull or snag” the way other hair elastics would, she says.

From Washington Post • Sep. 16, 2022

She said: "That's not my jaw and neck in real life - and I can't walk around with tape and elastics everywhere."

From BBC • Aug. 19, 2022

In the mornings, it took no small effort for Avril to pull the hair back from her face and impose a kind of order on it with elastics and hair grips.

From The Guardian • Mar. 9, 2021

The well elastics words down, then catapults echoes up.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell