suspender
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Badu wore a black silk duchess gown with white satin buttons, sportcoat and suspender skirt.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2021
On a tour of its green, al fresco campus, wearing True Religion overalls with one suspender undone and black hightop Chuck Taylors, she looked at ease and made everyone around her feel the same.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2018
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
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
His costume was high-topped shoes and old-time britches held up by one suspender.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
Often duded up in a cowboy hat and suspenders, Eatherly had a knack for marketing and proved to be an exceptional conman.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
Its Intel profits alone would make Gordon Gekko hang up his suspenders.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
Looped into the traction and stability systems and the smartest brakes on the planet, the Turbo S’s high-voltage suspenders represent a major advance in client preservation technology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
A family of boys in suspenders appears; behind them are sandbags displaying paper targets with human outlines.
From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2024
He set up his suspenders as a slingshot, fastening one end to a stout bush.
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
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