waistband

Example Sentences

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Among the new nonnegotiables: fleece vests instead of jackets and elastic waistbands instead of “hard pants,” i.e., anything with a zipper.

From The Wall Street Journal

The wings were born, attached to a wide elastic waistband Equihua had from a former project.

From Los Angeles Times

Participants wore waistband pedometers to track physical activity and underwent PET scans to measure amyloid-beta plaques and tau tangles in the brain.

From Science Daily

So we sink into the couch, plates on laps, clothed in pants with elastic waistbands.

From Salon

In Santa Ana, another pulled a gun from his waistband and pointed it at activists who had been trailing him from a distance in their car.

From Los Angeles Times