suspender
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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
If the 283 wires within each suspender rope were laid end-to-end, they would be 9,100 miles long — more than one-third of the circumference of the earth around the equator.
From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2011
The project, which agency officials estimated would create 3,600 jobs, is daunting in its magnitude: the suspender ropes, if placed end to end, would be 32 miles long.
From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2011
His costume was high-topped shoes and old-time britches held up by one suspender.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
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
The character White played from 1989 to 1998 on the wholesome hit sitcom “Family Matters” defined the Black nerd for TV watchers: saddle shoes, suspenders, thick glasses, high, nasal voice.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2024
“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
It was a boy wearing a tiny shirt, trousers, and suspenders that exactly matched the outfit my aunt had just made me.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
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