hand-me-down

Example Sentences

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"Conversely, when brides were familiar with the story of the dress, like with a hand-me-down, they were far more positive about it and treated it more like treasure than a cursed item."

From BBC • Feb. 28, 2026

The chancellor could also offer partial payments, potentially getting smaller for each additional child to reflect that these children might use the same buggy as their siblings or hand-me-down clothes.

From BBC • Nov. 14, 2025

The warehouse has also seen fewer of the startups that used to buy a lot of the city’s hand-me-down office furniture, perhaps due to the current economic uncertainty.

From Seattle Times • May 19, 2024

How much of what we inherit is in our genes, and how much is hand-me-down trauma?

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2023

I feel like just a hand-me-down human being!

From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez