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How to use garter in a sentence

20 example sentences · noun, verb

Garter means a band worn around the leg to hold up a sock or stocking. Example: “If you go out and play and get your clothes dirty, I'll have your guts for garters!”

Examples of garter by meaning

verbTo wear a garter.

  • Lady Hester loathed the coarse, deluded and lecherous Princess Caroline, who showed off to Smith by 'dancing about, exposing herself, like an opera girl', and even gartering below the knee:2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 385

More sentences with garter

  • If you go out and play and get your clothes dirty, I'll have your guts for garters!From the entry have someone's guts for garters
  • If you lay a finger on my little brother, I'll have your guts for garters.From the entry lay a finger on
  • Faux 19th-century bartenders in sleeve garters and baroque facial hair ply their trade in pre-Prohibition bars.2011 October 3, Wayne Curtis, “From Tiki to Tacky—and Back”, in The Atlantic. From the entry cloche
  • The grace notes of garters flowing around laced bikini briefed hips.2002, H. H. Fuller, It's a Wrap, page 56. From the entry briefed
  • She-male garter snakes exploit the amorous attentions of other males to warm up.2001, R. Shine, B. Phillips, H. Waye, M. LeMaster, R. T. Mason, Benefits of female mimicry in snakes, in Nature (414, 267). From the entry shemale
  • An elfette wearing thigh garters and a derby and not much else took my order.1988, Raymond H. Ring, Telluride Smile, page 74. From the entry elfette
  • Bare from her garters up her flesh appears under the sapphire a nixie’s green.1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC. From the entry nixie
  • Girl in Eustace street hallway Monday was it settling her garter.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 5: Lotus Eaters]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 71. From the entry esprit de corps
  • I saw my middle-aged brother stuffing a garter snake through a tiny hole in the screen, the snake inflating, pythonesque.2021, Anne M, Smith-Nochasak, A Canoer of Shorelines, Victoria, BC: FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 3. From the entry pythonesque
  • And his red socks also, held up with garters.1992, Mary Flanagan, Rose Reason, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, page 304. From the entry undertrousers
  • Most of the women have been too pantihosed or trousered for me, or else they wear garters as though they’re fancy-dress.1982, D[onald] M[ichael] Thomas, Birthstone, Harmondsworth: King Penguin, →ISBN, page 100. From the entry pantihosed
  • Selborne thrust out her heavy legs slowly to swell with warm ripe smack his gift of flowered green-silk garters.1929, Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel, New York: Scribner, published 1957, Part 2, Chapter 21, p. 236. From the entry aftersmile
  • He’s even wearing garters again.—Ohio Sun Dial.1924 November 15, I. M. Becile [pseudonym], “Wit and Half-Wit”, in Maurice Ellington, editor, The Centenary Conglomerate, volume 15…. From the entry socksies
  • Overstockings replaced the large, colorful, and eye-catching garters (kousebanden) that had previously been very popular, and which protected the expensive stockings from the rough boot.2003, Janny Venema, “The Van Rensselaers as commercial entrepreneurs”, in Beverwijck: A Dutch Village on the American Frontier, 1652–1664…. From the entry overstocking
  • With this form of nethergarment the stockings are tied just below the knees, and often hanging over the garter like the tops of boots.2000, Iris Brooke, James Laver, English Costume from the Seventeenth Through the Nineteenth Centuries. From the entry nethergarment
  • The red-sided garter snake, while harmless to all but the most ophiophobic of humans, is a fearsome predator of frogs, salamanders and slugs.1986, Nature Canada, volumes 15-17, unnumbered page. From the entry ophiophobic
  • Mother believed round garters cut off the circulation and caused varicose veins, so she kept me in a pantywaist several years longer than most boys.1966, John Gould, Last One In: Tales of a New England Boyhood, a Gently Pleasing Dip into a Cool, Soothing Pool of the Not-So-Long-Ago, So…. From the entry ladiness
  • The performers are dressed by Gary Lisz in saccharine, fussy balletic glosses on eighteenth-century costume—much gartering and lacing, with absurd skintight pantaloons beneath the flouncy short tutus.1989 June 19, Tobi Tobias, “Dance: Help Wanted”, in Edward Kosner, editor, New York, volume 22, number 25, New York, N.Y.: News America…. From the entry flouncy
  • Within a blue garter inscribed "Great Northern Railway Ireland" is a shield, on which are marshalled the arms of the principal towns in the company's area.1956 July, Col. H. C. B. Rogers, “Railway Heraldry”, in Railway Magazine, pages 476-477. From the entry quarterly

Meaning of garter

  1. noun A band worn around the leg to hold up a sock or stocking.
  2. noun A bendlet.
  3. noun An elastic band encircling any article of clothing.

Full definition of garter

Questions about garter in a sentence

How do you use garter in a sentence?
Garter is used as a noun and verb. For example: “If you go out and play and get your clothes dirty, I'll have your guts for garters!”
What is a short sentence with garter?
“He’s even wearing garters again.—Ohio Sun Dial.”
What does garter mean?
Garter means a band worn around the leg to hold up a sock or stocking.

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