(n.) That which is worn under the outside clothing; underclothes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Weiner resigned in 2011 after sending a picture of himself in his underwear to a 21-year-old woman in Seattle that subsequently ended up on the internet.
(2) If you are really unsure as to what’s acceptable, then just don’t do it, or go in wearing your underwear.
(3) A continuous flow of men goes past the block, while young women in black and red underwear pose on high stools behind windows with red awnings.
(4) Players were warned before this year's tournament that officials would be rigorously enforcing its rules on "almost entirely white" clothing – meaning that the bright underwear, coloured soles and conspicuously contrasting trim spotted in previous years would be outlawed.
(5) Yet its outrage dims when the models – the same models who appear in the usual shows, mind – are walking on the runway in underwear as opposed to haute couture.
(6) Behind the dancing girls and schmaltzy lyrics that usually characterise pop songs, these men act as the all-oppressing eye of the industry: telling female singers that weight loss and sexual objectification are the only feasible routes to stardom; stripping down women in music videos to their underwear while leaving their male counterparts untouched.
(7) For instance; hesitant to go to a hot spring, or on a trip with friends (76%), hesitant to go to a clinic or a hospital for physical check-ups and common illness (74%), troublesome to wear special underwear (69%), inconvenient because ordinary clothes cannot be worn (56%), distressed when viewing own body (52%), unable to dress in thin clothes in hot summer season (50%), imbalance of the breasts (49%), inconvenient to participate in sports (47%).
(8) Security sources have told news agencies that it was a step up in levels of sophistication from the original underwear bomb that was used in a failed attempt to blow up an airliner over Detroit on Christmas Day in 2009.
(9) The chaddi [underwear] symbolises vulgarity, something Muthalik's men indulged in when they molested the girls in Mangalore, and pink adds shock value.
(10) The gendered nature of posts – from pictures of me in underwear to comments about how fertility affects my decision-making – also shows we’ve still a long way to go to be a movement that practises the equality it preaches.
(11) Harris played with the underwear of another witness, a well-known British celebrity, as she recorded a TV interview with him in the mid-1990s.
(12) I told them that the ladies prefer a man in a suit to one in baggy trousers, with visible underwear and garish "trainers".
(13) Two weeks after the video of Garner went viral, building residents filmed the NYPD dragging a Brooklyn grandmother out of her apartment in her underwear.
(14) Seeing him strut his stuff, actually quite human, you were conscious that here was a straight man of mixed heritage who wore women’s underwear while channelling Jimi Hendrix.
(15) Scientists have developed underwear with built-in electrodes that deliver small electric shocks to combat bed sores in patients who are in a coma or who have injuries that have immobilised them.
(16) Asiri is believed to have built the device his brother used in an abortive assassination attempt on Saudi Arabia's deputy interior minister and the underwear bomb a Nigerian man tried to detonate over the US in 2009.
(17) He was sitting in his underwear, of course, but he never let his focus shift to the absurdity of the situation.
(18) A former Fox News employee told the Daily Beast : “One time he asked me if I was wearing underwear, and was he going to see anything ‘good’.” Sherman published the accounts of six women who claimed harassment by Ailes.
(19) There is a lot of, 'You will be expected to be in your underwear', or, 'You will be naked.'"
(20) But what else could people do faced with someone who is known universally as the "underwear bomber"?
Worn
Definition:
(p. p.) of Wear
() p. p. of Wear.
Example Sentences:
(1) A case is presented of a 35-year-old woman who was brought to the emergency service by ambulance complaining of vomiting for 7 days and that she could not hear well because she was 'worn out'.
(2) It can also solve a lot of problems – period.” However, Trump did not support making the officer-worn video cameras mandatory across the country, as the Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton has done , noting “different police departments feel different ways”.
(3) Many leave banking after three to five years, not because they are 'worn out', but because now they have financial security to start their own business or go on to advocate for a cause they are passionate about or buy a small cottage in the West Country for the rest of their lives."
(4) The development of a shear transducer, small enough to be worn comfortably under a normal foot, is described, along with a microcomputer controlled data logger.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A sticker worn on the shirt an attendee at a New York City landmarks commission meeting.
(6) The police spokesman said the evidence considered included a testimony from a member of the public who witnessed the incident, footage supplied by the media, an interview with the man who was Tasered, footage from the video cameras worn by the attending officers and a statement from a safety trainer.
(7) At the present time, the following parameters can be recommended for "early diagnosis" of phosgene overexposure: Phosgene indicator paper badges, to be worn by all persons involved in handling phosgene (these badges permit immediate estimation of the exposure dose in each individual case); Observation of the initial irritative symptoms of the eye and the upper respiratory tract after phosgene inhalation can provide a rough indication of the inhalation concentration and dose; X-ray photographs of the lungs make it possible to detect incipient toxic pulmonary edema at an early stage, during the clinical latent period.
(8) Every time he felt the futility of his work for the NAACP, he’d finger the well-worn pages, and it would strengthen his resolve.” This is how classics of this calibre work their way into the literary bloodstream.
(9) In order to evaluate the usefulness of gamma-ray-irradiation to improve the tolerance to wear of the sockets, the worn surface of the 2.5 M rad gamma-ray-irradiated HDP sockets after total hip arthroplasty has been quantified by a newly-developed 3 dimensional (3-D) image analysis method in combination with scanning electron microscopy (SEM).
(10) Gloves were the barrier worn most frequently when appropriate (74%), followed by goggles (13%), gowns (12%), and masks (1%).
(11) The Pucci Saturday night show was a fairly typical glamorous display with op art prints, 70s shapes and jetset-worthy wafty dresses – all the things Dundas has done so successfully – worn by supermodels including Eva Herzigova, Karie Kloss, Joan Smalls and Natasha Poly.
(12) The etched porcelain laminate veneer is a new conservative treatment that offers a solution to fractured, discolored, and worn anterior teeth.
(13) The two reformists Mr Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi have sought to portray themselves as the true heirs of the Islamic revolution's spiritual leader, the late Ayatollah Khomeini, but this tactic has since worn thin and Khomeini's successor Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has stepped up his drive to paint Mousavi and Karroubi as western-run heretics.
(14) The case is described of a 26-year olf woman, gravida 2, para 1, who presented with failure to conceive 18 months after revomal of a Lippes Loop IUD worn for 12 months.
(15) Designs weren’t limited to abayas (a long tunic traditionally worn by Muslim women in the Middle East).
(16) Partly for this reason, writers like Jeremy Rifkin have been saying that information privacy is a worn-out idea.
(17) Conventionally fitted Paraperm O2plus contact lenses were worn for 44 months by 23 myopic children, who discontinued lens wear for 2.5 months and then resumed lens wear with Fluoroperm 30 lenses for a period of 8 months.
(18) As the weirdly brilliant TV show Fashion Police – hosted by the late, great Joan Rivers, who, along with various randoms, passed judgment on clothes worn by celebrities that week – demonstrated, people have different takes on clothes.
(19) Like 90% of the population, all I knew about him was that he was that bloke who’d worn a dress to the Baftas.
(20) More than half of 18- to 30-year-olds say they’re worried about the future, 47% report that they lack self-confidence, and 42% that they feel worn down.