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
“You can’t fake this. It’s not a time to put on your big-girl panties and just deal with it. This music is my foundational life journey.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 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’ve gotten so thin, I’ve had to take in the waistbands of all my panties and stuff the cups of my brassiere with handkerchiefs.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
