undergarment

Example Sentences

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Dressed in a khaki uniform and a “telnyashka” — the horizontally-striped undergarment of Russian armed forces — he signaled conformity and restraint, giving assurances wrapped in polite language.

From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2023

Some women swear by period underwear, a type of undergarment engineered to absorb menstrual blood.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 23, 2022

This fitted undergarment ushered in an age when dresses had very narrow midsections.

From Scientific American • Apr. 26, 2022

Masks were worn as though they had long been standard fashion, a garment no more desired than some restricting undergarment but socially necessary all the same.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 27, 2021

His father was in the ladies’ undergarment business with his brothers, on the sixth floor of what is now a fancy loft at Broadway and Spring Street in S0H0.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell