suspenders

Example Sentences

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Its Intel profits alone would make Gordon Gekko hang up his suspenders.

From Barron's • May 29, 2026

Presiding over the festivities was Frank Seddio, the club’s 79-year-old chairman, who was wearing suspenders and a monogrammed dress shirt.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025

“Trump’s lawyers are taking a belt and suspenders approach to his cases,” former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani told Salon.

From Salon • Jan. 3, 2024

Old black-and-white photographs show them dressed in suspenders and snap-brim hats.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2023

They all had scowls, and clenched fists, and pleated pants, and suspenders, and flat heads.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles