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How to use knickers in a sentence

23 example sentences · noun, interjection

Knickers means knickerbockers. Example: “A knicker nicker nicked a pair of knickers off the clothesline.”

Examples of knickers by meaning

nounKnickerbockers.

  • He was a student at Notre Dame, a robust Joe-College kind of kid, husky and tall and always dressed in plus-four knickers.1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Them First Kicks are a Killer”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 2...

More sentences with knickers

  • A knicker nicker nicked a pair of knickers off the clothesline.From the entry knicker
  • Keep your knickers on, mate. It was only a joke.From the entry keep one's knickers on
  • Kate lifted the loose camisole top and matching peach knickers, almost boxer short style.2017, Ray McCarthy, Hero Genesis, Corvids Press, →ISBN. From the entry boxer short
  • A pair of frilly knickers fly out from the leg and I laugh.2013, Claire King, chapter 19, in The Night Rainbow, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 217. From the entry floof
  • Catrin’s still squatting down on the ground, knickers round her ankles.2010, Gary Owen, Love Steals Us from Loneliness, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →DOI, →ISBN, page 14. From the entry round
  • The only thing was that two of our WAAF were not wearing any knickers at all!1995, Beryl E. Escott, Our Wartime Days: The WAAF in World War 2, page 35. From the entry blackouts
  • And after a speedy search I found the drawer where she kept all her gym knickers."1989, Roald Dahl, Matilda. From the entry gym knickers
  • Their snow-white knickers and crimson stockings changed uniforms forever.2015, Jim Bresnahan, Play It Again: Baseball Experts on What Might Have Been, page 14. From the entry baseballdom
  • Czechoslovakia takes her knickers off to welcome capitalism.2006, Tom Stoppard, Rock 'n' Roll, London: Faber and Faber, →ISBN. From the entry tankie
  • Just say no to exposed bra straps unless you are in your boudoir in French knickers and a matching balconette-bra ensemble.2005 July 31, Jo Adams, “Dressing for the heat”, in The Observer. From the entry balconette bra
  • So suddenly it's knickers off and ’ow's your father.2002, Ben Elton, High Society, Random House, published 2012, →ISBN, page 226. From the entry how's your father
  • The excitements of a pair of knickers, muddied on the storyful pavement, set his mind on murderous trackings.1993, Lukáš Tomin, Ashtrays, page 29. From the entry storyful
  • Includes a selling knickers to a burusera shop scene, a hilariously cheap “disco” set, but not enough cumsoaked schoolgirls for this reviewer.2015, Clive Davies, Spinegrinder: The Movies Most Critics Won't Write about, SCB Distributors, →ISBN. From the entry burusera
  • The blackouts were a dark sort of long-legged knickers, dark wintry ones, and the twilights were a lighter blue in a sort of Celanese material.2011 December 13, Peter Liddle, Captured Memories, 1930–1945: Across the Threshold of War: The Thirties and the War, Casemate Publishers…. From the entry blackouts
  • Maggie Murphy had some knickers that she bought in Bagenalstown, an interlock of knickers that she got for a half a crown.2009, “Maggie Murphy's Knickers” (track 8), in Stay Wut Her Johnny, performed by Richie Kavanagh. From the entry crown
  • It's belted waists and pencil skirts again, which means the ghastly panty-girdles and roll-ons have returned, only this time they're called control knickers.2007 November 6, Michele Hanson, The Guardian. From the entry panty girdle
  • Gabe's suit had one pair of longies and one pair of knickers, but his mother said he couldn't wear the longies until after the bar-mitzvah.1934, Story - Volume 4, page 29. From the entry longies
  • And now the same Talon fastener that the air mail pilots use in their flying suits is on your longies and knickers!1932 May, Boys' Life, volume 22, number 5, page 29. From the entry longies
  • What makes my children′s faces blaze hotter than crimson French knickers and matching suspender belt, is catching their parents walking around the house dressed only in their Reg Grundys.2009, Sonia Neale, Death by Teenager, HarperCollins Australia, published 2011, unnumbered page. From the entry Reg Grundys
  • I wouldn't choose the Shins for a multiday stage race but somehow, even among the megaexpensive Euro tighties I own, these understated, made-in-San Francisco knickers have become a favorite.2008, Bicycling Vol. 49 No. 1 ”The Long and Short of It”, page 96. From the entry tighties
  • The crotch of her trousers had split as she fell, and because she rarely wore knickers, her Jack and Danny was hanging out for all to see.2008, Kimberley Chambers, Billie Jo, Random House, →ISBN, page 33. From the entry Jack and Danny
  • Silk teddies and negligées up front, knickers fanned out on tables in the centre, bras hanging in the back - there are no minutes lost finding your bearings.2003, Michelle Lee, The Observer, 4 May 03. From the entry teddy

Meaning of knickers

  1. noun Knickerbockers.
  2. noun Women's underpants.
  3. interjection A mild exclamation of annoyance.

Full definition of knickers

Questions about knickers in a sentence

How do you use knickers in a sentence?
Knickers is used as a noun and interjection. For example: “A knicker nicker nicked a pair of knickers off the clothesline.”
What is a short sentence with knickers?
“Czechoslovakia takes her knickers off to welcome capitalism.”
What does knickers mean?
Knickers means knickerbockers.

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