suspender

Example Sentences

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Puns abound, with the Sun trying: "Hey big suspender."

From BBC • Aug. 29, 2019

He pops open the flip phone stored in the shirt pocket between his suspender straps and calls the number for a voicemail set up specifically for this purpose.

From Washington Post • Mar. 19, 2015

García, de 55 años, dijo que decidió suspender el esfuerzo revocatorio durante una llamada telefónica del martes por la noche con otros organizadores, pero que podría volver si Giménez reniega de sus promesas.

From Washington Times • Oct. 2, 2014

The fashion designer Thom Browne, no stranger to the outer reaches of fantasy, put the butlers in androgynous black-tie uniforms with shorts, suspender socks and wildly exaggerated cuffs.

From New York Times • Dec. 26, 2013

West, Ryan Dean: A discovery of true Zen-like perfection, I got a leopard-spotted caveman-loincloth kind of thing that had one suspender strap that tied in a knot over the shoulder.

From "Winger" by Andrew Smith