rubber band

Example Sentences

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You slice it the wrong way and, instead of a tender, juicy bite, you’re left gnawing on something that tastes like a rubber band.

From Salon • May 22, 2026

When an ordinary rubber band is stretched, it becomes thinner while largely maintaining the same overall volume.

From Science Daily • May 13, 2026

But sometimes a disturbance can cause the polar vortex to stretch like a rubber band.

From Slate • Feb. 25, 2026

"Think of it like a rubber band being pulled," Judah Cohen, a climate dynamics scientist at MIT, told AFP.

From Barron's • Jan. 22, 2026

Mom glanced at the clock on the stove, then she put down the phone and pulled the ponytail rubber band out of her own hair.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix