thong
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In a recent acrylic painting she calls “The Big Bang,” she depicts a Black woman facing away from the viewer, a gun in her thong and her middle finger up.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 16, 2022
With that technique, the hand moves up and down, keeping the whip mostly in a vertical plane as the thong stretches toward a target in front.
From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2022
Now think of all the trends that originated with those two: the selfie, purse dogs, contouring, thong heels, public awareness of and/or emotional investment in Kylie and Caitlyn Jenner, to name a few.
From Salon ● Feb. 3, 2022
Watching “Do It Debbie’s Way,” I picture a trio of women in 1983: Fisher posing in her iron thong, Reynolds lunging in her raspberry spandex, and Winters lounging in her oversized sweatshirt.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 9, 2019
I pulled him through the opening under the fence and tied him to it with a thong and left food beside him to eat and some fresh water.
From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell
The most standout looks so far have included bejeweled thongs, color-coordinated snapbacks and sneakers and pleated, baggy jorts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2025
"I raced down… but there was no sign of him, just his thongs on the bank and nothing else," his friend John Peiti told the Cape York Weekly.
From BBC ● May 2, 2023
A dark, 8-foot-tall figure with elongated torso and neck, long leather thongs for arms, and feet painted light gray with clay slip, she gazes up into the ceiling with empty eye sockets.
From New York Times ● Aug. 12, 2021
For many women, after years of thongs and underwire bras, it was a relief to wear clothes that didn’t hurt.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 3, 2021
Kino slipped his feet into his sandals and pulled the thongs up over his heels.
From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck
