How to Use underpants in a Sentence

underpants

plural noun
  • Not everyone puts their pants (or underpants) on one leg at a time.
    — Laken Brooks, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021
  • This means don’t put the puck in a drawer with clothes or your drawers, that is, your underpants.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 26 June 2022
  • Duncan said Jones was wearing a shirt and underpants when his body was found.
    — Tom Sissom, Arkansas Online, 4 May 2021
  • Hey, if the underpants bomb didn’t work, why not switch to something less conspicuous?
    — Will Egensteiner, Outside Online, 8 July 2014
  • Above the museum’s front desk, the nine tiers of a big chandelier in the form of a globe are lined with hanging underpants.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Navalny himself has the courage to be amused, later on, by the news that the poison was applied to the seams of his blue underpants.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2022
  • Hey, Juan, after the rain, the field looks soggier than a truck driver's underpants.
    — Fox News, 18 July 2018
  • My 43-year-old body, a decade older than hers, was clad in nothing but a T-shirt and cotton underpants.
    — Laura Mechling, WSJ, 23 Feb. 2021
  • The man was taken into custody without bail and led out of the building wearing only his underpants.
    — Kathleen Joyce, Fox News, 11 Mar. 2018
  • In the suitcase, there are two pairs of women’s panties, tampons, a pair of men’s underpants, a tube, and a jar of Vaseline.
    — Sophie Calle, Harper's Magazine, 16 Feb. 2011
  • On the second date, Corfman said Moore removed her outer clothing and touched her over her bra and underpants.
    — Paul Gattis | [email protected], al, 2 Feb. 2022
  • That night, at the after party, Jordan shows off the golden underpants that Becca got him.
    — Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 18 June 2018
  • Bolsonaro said last month, shortly before one of his top congressional allies was found with wads of cash stuffed into his underpants.
    — Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2020
  • The fourteen other boys in the room stood obediently, bent over—their underpants at their ankles, bottoms hoisted in the air, like mine.
    — The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
  • For example, Colton, our youngest, recently observed that daddies need only one pair of underpants.
    — Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2020
  • One night, after her brothers had gone to bed, the babysitter led her into her parents’ bedroom, lifted her dress over her head, took off her underpants, and pulled her on top of him.
    — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2021
  • Alan Greenspan, former head of the Federal Reserve, is said to watch demand for men’s underpants.
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 29 Mar. 2022
  • More fundamentally, your web history - like the color of your underpants - ain't nobody's business but your own.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 22 June 2019
  • Shorts, underpants and a headband were found further into the cornfield, Johnson testified.
    — Fox News, 22 May 2021
  • Later, during a search, a prison guard put her hands in Skochilenko’s underpants and touched her indecently, Subbotina said.
    — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 26 June 2022
  • Repetitive small faces and figures, paired with messages or notes, and the use of neon colors, caricatures, swans and underpants would become key elements in his work.
    — Alicia Eler, Star Tribune, 8 Sep. 2020
  • The picture that has emerged is of an aging emperor, surrounded by a harem of nubile women paid to ornament his dinner table, boost his ego, and dance around in their underpants.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Australia’s laws were often presented by their American apologists in the mode of the underpants gnomes on South Park.
    — Varad Mehta, Washington Examiner, 15 Apr. 2021
  • The men look at their shirts, their trousers, their underpants and socks and shoes being mixed up, being separated, combined with another man’s clothes, going into different bags.
    — Keith Ridgway, The Atlantic, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Cara Delevingne dons Rachel's pink bridesmaid dress from her former fiancé's wedding with its skirt tucked into red underpants, as accidentally happened to Rachel.
    — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 27 May 2021
  • Leaflets with detailed instructions are given to migrants before their trip, advising them on everything from how many pairs of underpants to pack to the importance of avoiding bright colors so as not to call attention to themselves.
    — Luciana Magalhaes, WSJ, 8 May 2022
  • When Mia later returned from shopping, Dylan ran up and hugged her, but Farrow realized that Dylan was no longer wearing underpants under her sundress.
    — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Without that stand in place, a considerable amount of Series X hardware is exposed, as this console doesn't wear any plastic or aluminum underpants to cover its bottom-of-hardware air-intake grid.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 28 Sep. 2020
  • Bacon also appreciated Dyer’s ability to sit in a chair in his underpants for hours on end and just pose, without fidgeting, or distracting Bacon with conversation.
    — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 17 May 2021
  • President Jair Bolsonaro’s deputy senate leader resigned from his position after Brazil's federal police caught him with Covid assistance money stuffed in his underpants, according to the local press.
    — Marisa Wanzeller, Bloomberg.com, 15 Oct. 2020

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