How to Use brassiere in a Sentence

brassiere

noun
  • Or a big pile of unclaimed brassieres?
    — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 28 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In the living room, dressed in underwear — bikini panties and a brassiere — was Miss Tate.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2019
  • 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
  • Dermatologists agree that women can get away with washing their brassieres after every three or four wears.
    — Southern Living, 2 May 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • But with each year, the festival began to feel looser, with kids hanging out and drinking, showing up for the party; at moments, women would be dancing barefoot in their brassieres.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 9 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • As the party sipped on shots of mezcal and champagne, Hearst, who was wearing a floor-length ivory asymmetric gown revealing a leather brassiere, held the floor, greeting friends and showing them around the space.
    — Rachel Marlowe, Vogue, 13 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Devil’s Rope Museum, housed inside what was once a brassiere factory, holds miles of the prickly wire, plus a section devoted to Route 66.
    — Pam Leblanc, Southern Living, 3 Jan. 2026
  • 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

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