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How to use underpants in a sentence

21 example sentences · noun

Underpants means underwear covering the genitalia and often buttocks, usually going no higher than the navel. Example: “I was in such a hurry that I put my underpants on back to front.”

Examples of underpants by meaning

nounUnderwear covering the genitalia and often buttocks, usually going no higher than the navel.

  • The Italian fashion of wearing red underpants on December 31 is becoming popular, reputedly to guarantee luck for the new year.1994, Marketing in Europe, Issues 380-385, page 77
  • She is wearing socks and underpants and a .38 Special with a shrouded hammer in an ankle holster.1999, Thomas Harris, Hannibal, page 19
  • He wore khakis slung so low that five inches of his underpants showed—dark blue boxers with big white polka dots.2011, Les Roberts, The Cleveland Creep: A Milan Jacovich Mystery, page 87

More sentences with underpants

  • I was in such a hurry that I put my underpants on back to front.From the entry back to front
  • Her skirt was so short that she flashed her underpants as she was getting out of her car.From the entry flash
  • Chang the elderly butler entered, wearing only a pair of skimpy black underpants.2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN. From the entry skimpy
  • A pair of white socks were shoved into my hands along with tighty-whitey underpants.2015, D.J. MacHale, Strike: The SYLO Chronicles #3, page 45. From the entry tighty-whitey
  • I don't want to throw my underpants in the laundry, because she might see the dried stain.2014 August 7, Jakob Ejersbo, Liberty, Quercus Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry snoregasm
  • “Do you wear big girl underpants?” Nicki stared down at her.2008, Jennifer Weiner, The Guy Not Taken, →ISBN. From the entry go commando
  • I was sure, I loved being a baby and i threw out all my underpants.1995 March 21, DEBBIE6802, “STORY: The biggest Baby part 8”, in alt.sex.fetish.diapers (Usenet). From the entry unpotty train
  • So Olga invents WUNDER-PANTS®—the first soft all-stretch underpants to do something neat for tummies.1975 February 24, Tobias, “Olga”, in Statesville Record & Landmark, volume 101, number 47, Statesville, N.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6-A…. From the entry tummie
  • The skimpy black underpants had ridden up, and now Chang’s wrinkly old bottom was pointing in their direction.2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN. From the entry ride up
  • She pulled me shoes and socks off and then pulled off me trousers and underpants and threw them onto the chair.2014, Alan Watkins-Groves, Buying The Programme, page 74. From the entry lob-on
  • Persuading Kenny that measuring his calves did not require removal of his underpants and trousers was akin to pushing water uphill.2013, Zoë C Lloyd, All Patients Great and Small: Tales of a Rural District Nurse, BalboaPress, →ISBN, page 28. From the entry push water uphill
  • Geronimo passed Steve a cup of something that reeked of scrapings off a smoker's throat marinated in a jogger's underpants.2012, Joey Ashley, Beyond Isness. From the entry politeful
  • “I wear big girl underpants now!” she proclaimed.2008, Jennifer Weiner, The Guy Not Taken, →ISBN. From the entry go commando
  • As it turns out, underpants didn’t exist in the 18th century and without underpants, the whole wedgie business becomes a problem.2005, Annabelle du Fouet, “Toys for kinky girls and boys—It’s not just whips and chains anymore.” (chapter 3), in Weather Balloons Make…. From the entry roadblock
  • Underneath he was wearing white Y-fronted underpants.1975, George MacBeth, The Samurai, page 54. From the entry Y-fronted
  • Both boys wore their homemade underpants, the brand name, ‘Sydney Flour’, emblazoned across the back, as old flour bags were not wasted, but recycled.2008, Lyn Aldred, Neptune's Fingers, page 10. From the entry bathers
  • Gotham City is again leaving its law and order in the hands of a man who wears plastic underpants over his tights.1989 June 5, The Canberra Times, Australia Captial Territory, page 10, column 2. From the entry sock
  • The bottom compartment of her big packbag contains a very light wool long john top (Norwegian-made, very soft), a tennis hat, underpants, and a polybag with sanitary napkins in it.1979, Harry Roberts, Movin’ Out: Equipment and Technique for Hikers, Washington, D.C.: Stone Wall Press, →ISBN, page 68. From the entry long john

Meaning of underpants

  1. noun Underwear covering the genitalia and often buttocks, usually going no higher than the navel.

Full definition of underpants

Questions about underpants in a sentence

How do you use underpants in a sentence?
Underpants is used as a noun. For example: “I was in such a hurry that I put my underpants on back to front.”
What is a short sentence with underpants?
“Underneath he was wearing white Y-fronted underpants.”
What does underpants mean?
Underpants means underwear covering the genitalia and often buttocks, usually going no higher than the navel.

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