obi
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
They value efficiency and aesthetics above all other considerations, and they end up a graveyard of lost opportunities: How will the jacket or the obi interact with the buckram?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2023
“The present is a gift,” she said, fan tucked in her obi — the wide kimono sash — pink and white parasol in her Hello Kitty shoulder bag.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 23, 2022
Then she reversed them, nodded, and cinched it all together with an obi sash, “O.K., O.K. O.K.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2018
She endorses the structured look so popular for this round of preview showings, with prominent shoulders and waist cinched in a wide obi belt.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 25, 2013
He led the way into his dim obi, which smelled of mushrooms.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Checked shirts tied at the waist, while the bands of knitwear that encircled the torso flirted with the notion of modern- day obis.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2010
The latter supposedly smuggled Chosen's cash in Japan out of the country, wrapped in obis.
From Time Magazine Archive
Arriving in Washington with a gift-load of cloisonne vases, obis and brocades, his comely daughter Hanako at his side, Mamoru Shigemitsu posed for photographers, leaning heavily on his cane.
From Time Magazine Archive
They also wore gay Page 335embroidered obis, or large sashes, which are put on in a peculiar fashion.
From A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months by Annie Brassey
But fine kimonos and rich obis are for the wealthy Japanese; the poor cannot afford them, and dress very simply.
From Peeps at Many Lands: Japan by John Finnemore
