cuffs

Example Sentences

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If I were to name it more plainly, I might call it Beatrix Potter weather: damp cuffs, garden gates, the feeling that something is pushing up just beneath the soil.

From Salon • Mar. 1, 2026

The collection also featured brocade capes, puffer jackets and long wool coats with oversized fur cuffs.

From Barron's • Jan. 21, 2026

New devices can screen for sleep apnea, measure blood pressure without arm cuffs and detect early signs of illness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 30, 2025

I was trying to tell them that I am putting my hands behind my back, that my hands are behind my back, and that I am trying to let them put the cuffs on me.

From Slate • Jul. 28, 2025

Dad grinned vacantly, and walked so that his pants cuffs swished like Oxford bags.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey