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Example sentences for "suspender"

Lexicographically close words:
suspecting; suspects; suspence; suspend; suspended; suspenders; suspending; suspends; suspensa; suspense
  1. One suspender held up his coarse, linsey trousers, the legs of which fitted closely and came only to a blue yarn zone above his heavy cowhide shoes.

  2. Oh, they had me all distributed, down to my suspender buttons!

  3. He wore the same shirt and one suspender and linsey trousers which he had worn in the dooryard of the tavern, but his feet were covered only by his blue yarn socks.

  4. The cake was tempting, and the fifteen cents irresistible, and a couple of boys in ragged shirts and short trousers and a suspender apiece came up shamefacedly to enter for the prize.

  5. Then jerking the old suspender in place he straightened up on his sturdy, bare feet, and darted through the underbrush in the direction where the rabbit had disappeared.

  6. Steve stood looking disgustedly after him, a limp figure, one shoulder dropping until the old knit suspender fell at his side, and a sullen, discouraged look settling in his brown eyes.

  7. Suspender of the sky, who hammered out the earth.

  8. There's one trouble, though," went on Dunk, and he carefully examined his simple suspender attachment as if in fear of losing it.

  9. He pulled up the back of his vest and showed Andy where a suspender button was missing.

  10. He was anxious to close with me, however, and took up a pile of the suspender straps, tempting me with them.

  11. That was the first name I had heard, and to Preston's I was asking my way, stimulated by the fact, though I had been in Lynn not an hour and a half, a job was mine did I care to glue suspender straps!

  12. Tilden were once barefooted boys, with a suspender apiece.

  13. He said that if the tocsin of war should sound even now, or if he were to wake up in the night and hear war's rude alarum, he would spring to arms and make tyranny tremble till its suspender buttons fell off.

  14. He had a big straw hat on and one suspender over his left shoulder.

  15. Hadn't ought ter be thirty mile nuther," the man with one suspender said; "that three oughter be an eight.

  16. Fibsy," and Avice looked at him, "why did you tell Judge Hoyt it was a suspender button?

  17. An' when I said suspender button, he lost all interest.

  18. Judge Hoyt, and he was actually laughing; "this mendacious youth told me about that button some time ago; only then, he said it was a suspender button!

  19. This clasp or suspender is the most unsuitable and least beautiful of any in the whole series.

  20. The suspender is like that employed on the South African medal, and the bars, ⅛ in.

  21. The suspender is of a very appropriate character, suggesting a palm wreath issuing from a conventional cusp.

  22. Instead of the strange suspender issued with the second China medal, a straight clasp was used, and in place of the old fishtail bar the straight type was utilised.

  23. The striking of the medal is with a scroll suspender at the top with a hole, which leaves no doubt that it was intended for suspension by means of a small ring.

  24. The suspender is very ornate, the rose, shamrock, and thistle having been used in a weak sort of manner to decorate it.

  25. The medal is connected with the suspender by means of a trophy of French arms.

  26. The suspender is fashioned after the manner of a fern frond.

  27. In place of the French Imperial crown which was employed as a suspender in the original badge or cross is an enamelled wreath, otherwise the general appearance of the decorations is the same.

  28. The suspender and bars of this medal are of the same pattern as those used with the "Mutiny Medal.

  29. The suspender is straight, and the names, etc.

  30. Then he hove up his other suspender and started for'ard, and inside of three-quarters of an hour his craft was only a pale torch again in the distance.

  31. I did thank the suspender man for the tip but I made up my mind that I was going to do business with Andrews anyway.

  32. While Andrews was over at the dry goods side for a few minutes, the suspender man said to me: "'I don't believe I can sell this fellow.

  33. He busted one of his sister's slippers getting them on, and her stockings were a good deal too big for him, but he tucked his drawers down in them and tied a suspender around his leg above the knee, and they stayed on all right.

  34. Sew back suspender buttons on two inches each side of back seam.

  35. When trousers are to be made larger around waist=, rip lining three inches each side of the back seam at top and remove the two top back suspender buttons.

  36. When trousers are to be made larger at the waist=, and there is nothing to let out, remove back suspender buttons as explained, and waist band lining.

  37. Place creases at the bottom together with the left hand, and with the right hand place the two top suspender buttons together, then lay them flat on the bench or lengthwise of the table.

  38. Put a good neck on buttons to allow suspender button holes to fit smoothly around button.

  39. Sew two back suspender buttons on; and fell waist band lining.

  40. Sew back suspender buttons on, and fell waist band lining at top, and finish as explained, fastening waist band lining to seams to hold it in place; press and finish.

  41. Remove the two back suspender buttons and rip lining back far enough for convenience in working.

  42. He wore no coat, and but one frayed suspender supported his patched and baggy trousers.

  43. The hems of his trousers had worn away, revealing triangular glimpses of his ankles, and a frayed piece of a suspender hung from a stout peg in the waistband behind.

  44. He brushed aside with a contemptuous laugh his mother's tearful entreaty that he should stay at Wingfield and continue the dynasty of the Grew Suspender Buckle.

  45. A suspender maker, in New York, told me he buys the woven goods, then cuts it the right length, and shapes the leather for the ends, which his wife sews on.

  46. There are but four suspender factories in the United States, of any size.

  47. Some day when the janitor sweeps out the postoffice he will find a short suspender and a lock of brindle hair and a handful of large freckles, and he will wonder what it means.

  48. You know when a suspender button comes off it always disappears.

  49. The soda-water was cultivated and the suspender buttons seemed to grow wild.

  50. He had seized Cabuc's collar, blouse, shirt, and suspender with his left hand.

  51. The checkered pattern of that suspender recurred incessantly to his mind.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "suspender" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    hanger; supporter; suspender