How to Use brassiere in a Sentence

brassiere

noun

• Somewhat less common is the use of old plus-size brassieres.
  — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 2 June 2017
• Her grandmother pulled $100 from her brassiere as a gift.
  — Helen Ubiñas, Philly.com, 10 Apr. 2018
• One young man cuts away a large section of the artist’s top before severing the straps of her brassiere.
  — New York Times, 15 Oct. 2020
• Try wearing your black brassiere on top of your Burberry duffle coat, and get back to me.
  — Michael Avedon, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Aug. 2017
• In the living room, dressed in underwear — bikini panties and a brassiere — was Miss Tate.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2019
• Of course, Jenner does wear brassieres, as showcased by this photo, of her out in New York in 2016.
  — Donna Freydkin, Allure, 31 July 2017
• Some weren’t meant for public display: stockings, shoes, a corset, a brassiere.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2023
• Nineteen days later, a quail hunter found her body clad only in a brassiere, face down among trees off Foresthill Road east of Auburn.
  — Cathy Locke, sacbee, 25 Oct. 2017
• His work has appeared on everything from cat food labels (of course) to jigsaw puzzles to ads for brassieres.
  — Taylor Glascock, WIRED, 2 Oct. 2015
• When a soldier is in harm’s way, the brassiere would be worn under a nearly invincible fortress of finery.
  — Patricia Marx, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
• Depression sounded like a blues woman who kept switchblades in her garters, flasks in her brassiere and whiskey on her tongue (or gin, depending on the day).
  — Maiysha Kai, The Root, 16 May 2018
• From bricks to brassieres to beer, Lake Bluff has produced a variety of products, from the practical to whimsical over more than 150 years.
  — Lake County News-Sun, 14 May 2018
• The Current Detective magazine cover from June 1944 shows a woman in a brassiere.
  — Siobhan Morrissey, miamiherald, 9 June 2017
• The event is free, but those who donate $15 to the fund will receive a copy of the book, which continues the story of a midlife wife who loses her brassiere-manufacturer husband to a model but finds new love and a new life.
  — Carole Goldberg, courant.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• Dermatologists agree that women can get away with washing their brassieres after every three or four wears.
  — Southern Living, 2 May 2018
• Around midnight in Lausanne, hundreds rallied at the city's cathedral and marched downtown to set wooden pallets on fire, then throwing items like neckties and brassieres onto the inferno.
  — CBS News, 14 June 2019
• Until the modern invention of the brassiere with cups, women had to bolster their busts with either unsupportive bands of cloth or constricting corsets---so the common knowledge went.
  — Sophie Bushwick, Discover Magazine, 19 July 2012
• Just visible under a much-unbuttoned cornflower-blue blouse is a lace brassiere that, in context, reads more like medieval armature than an erotic statement.
  — Phoebe Eaton, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Mar. 2011
• Rayburn, a satirist, had written a previous book about the putative (and non-existent) inventor of the brassiere, Otto Titzling, leading many to believe that Crapper had never existed.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 28 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024