nylons
Example Sentences
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He sold Amway nylons to FBI secretaries while other agents sneered.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2025
In clothing, auxetic nylons, fibers and other synthetic materials could prove more comfortable than traditional materials.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 2024
“Part of survival, part of how we thrive and make politics, is that possibility of self-fashioning, of beauty, of pleasure, of nylons or the click of your heels,” she said.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2022
These plastics and nylons also can't be reused or recycled and aren't biodegradable, meaning they'll likely stick around in a landfill somewhere for an infinite amount of time, too.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2021
In 1939, when DuPont introduced nylons, countless American women felt as if a miracle had been performed in their honor.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
