underclothes
Example Sentences
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Children ran from the building stripped to their underclothes, their garments burned off, their skin blistering in the intense heat.
From BBC
Ono remained silent as audience members cut small scraps, larger pieces and, eventually, parts of her underclothes.
From Washington Post
Clerics faced down troublesome non-churchmen by forcing them to publicly confess their sins before their whole community, to pray all night in church in their underclothes – and sometimes to go on pilgrimages.
From The Guardian
Once she recovers, the woman found alive in the cemetery — “without the expected underclothes” — claims to be the inventor of candlepin bowling.
From Washington Post
In the late afternoon, I walked to Babu Ghat, and onto the broad concrete slipway that descended into the water, where a few moored boats bobbed slowly and men and children bathed in underclothes.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
