How to Use pannier in a Sentence
pannier
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These Ortlieb panniers will take some weight off your back and put it on your bike.
—Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 30 Aug. 2023
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Pack your panniers with a picnic, or indulge with lunch from a food truck.
—BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2018
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The pannier was around 38-inches wide, or a little over three feet, and extreme all on its own.
—Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 30 July 2020
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Back at work now, Koroknay-Palicz bikes in a T-shirt and shorts, carrying her work clothes and lunch in panniers.
—Emma Brown, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2017
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A front disc brake will stop you even when fully loaded, and those rear panniers are supplied as standard.
—Charlie Sorrel, WIRED, 9 Aug. 2007
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For those who prefer to move the load to the bike, GoCycle offers a front pannier that can be attached and removed quickly.
—Thomas Ricker, The Verge, 29 July 2019
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Some were printed with Delft china patterns, some striped with a leather insert at the hip to create a sort of faux pannier effect.
—Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2017
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Big motors, full suspension, racks and panniers, lights, etcetera.
—Brian Park, Outside Online, 30 Mar. 2023
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The city’s green spaces overflowed with couples jogging next to each other and cycling on bikes with matching panniers.
—Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2019
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Securing the panniers to your bike is as straightforward as grabbing the handles to open the lower latches and fastening the adjustable hooks to the rack, then letting go of the handle to lock it in place.
—Kevin Brouillard, Travel + Leisure, 7 Aug. 2023
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The panniers fit on racks up to 16 millimeters in diameter, and also have adapters for narrower rails.
—Maggie Slepian, Travel + Leisure, 5 Jan. 2024
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Where the back-roller panniers truly excel is their mounting hardware — Ortlieb’s QL2.1 system.
—Kevin Brouillard, Travel + Leisure, 7 Aug. 2023
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Royal scarlet velvet skirt in pannier effect with petticoat of cloth of gold embroidered in red lilies and gold pittas.
—Melinda Morris, NOLA.com, 8 Feb. 2018
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Browne's collection was a confectionery of colors — a Laduree macaron box of pastels in pink, lemon and mint — complete with the cage-like panniers of a petticoat, sometimes sans culotte.
—Rhonda Richford, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Sep. 2019
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And there’s a host of interesting accessories, like hard-shell panniers for the front and rear to increase your cargo-carrying ability.
—Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 16 Feb. 2023
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Most backpacks and many cycling panniers are not waterproof themselves and packing items in waterproof stuff sacks eliminates the need for bulky rain covers.
—Vanessa Nirode, Popular Mechanics, 28 June 2023
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Librarians manned these outposts, giving books to carriers who then climbed aboard their mules or horses, panniers loaded with books, and headed into the hills.
—Eliza McGraw, Smithsonian, 21 June 2017
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Librarians manned these outposts, giving books to carriers who then climbed aboard their mules or horses, panniers loaded with books, and headed into the hills.
—Eliza McGraw, Smithsonian, 22 June 2017
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If route-mapping and panniers aren’t your thing, there are easier biking options—and some major benefits to cycling the Wachau region with an organized group.
—Sebastian Modak, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Sep. 2018
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Take the Loewe spring 2023 show, which actress Taylor Russell opened in a dress with panniers, a silhouette Anderson has been experimenting with that’s meant to resemble the aerial view of a menswear jacket.
—Véronique Hyland, ELLE, 28 Feb. 2023
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And that's because the infamous French queen's penchant for candy colors, large skirt panniers, intricate embroidery, and towering hairstyles got a Tokyo twist.
—Kara Nesvig, Teen Vogue, 21 Feb. 2020
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Infanta elements — bell sleeves, abstracted pannier hips, corsets — met Chrysler Building curves met craft (met cumulus feather hoods).
—Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2020
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Instead, Findikoglu has created romantic suiting and elaborate—and enormous—gowns, some with panniers, others smothered in ruffles, and one that’s completely sheer on top.
—Steff Yotka, Vogue, 20 June 2018
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Nevertheless, panniers, or hooped petticoats undergirding the hips, and their 16th- and 17th-century relatives, farthingales, stepped out of the history books and onto the spring runways.
—Véronique Hyland, ELLE, 21 Mar. 2023
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Hylton, deliciously outfitted in an iridescent pannier skirt (David Burdick’s costume designs are a treat), is hilarious and, yes, rather endearing as the ditsy, doomed queen.
—Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 15 Dec. 2017
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The amazing sculptor Penko Platikanov produced a series of exquisite 18th-century figures, depicted in undergarments of the period like corsets, panniers, and undershirts to showcase them.
—Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 7 June 2018
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Saint Laurent's creative head Anthony Vacarello offered a version power dressing firmly rooted in respect for the label's history of the suits Yves created with exaggerated shoulders that jutted out like sharp panniers.
—Samantha Tse, CNN, 10 Mar. 2023
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