Used in a Sentence

underwear

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for underwear.

Editorial note

There really is nothing like putting on the thermal underwear + face mask and pedaling home.

Examples16
Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

Clothes worn next to the skin, underneath outer clothing.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of underwear gathered in one view.

noun

Clothes worn next to the skin, underneath outer clothing.

noun

(colloquial) Underpants (boxers, briefs, panties, etc) and often bras.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for underwear.

Example sentences

1

There really is nothing like putting on the thermal underwear + face mask and pedaling home.

2

Yes, you can work in your underwear, wake up at 11:00pm and drink beer all day if you want to.

3

There is precisely as much evidence that the NSA is blackmailing presidential candidates as there is evidence that there is a camera in my underwear drawer or that chemtrails exist.

4

Both the underwear and shoe bombers were stopped, not by TSA, but by their own mistakes as well as vigilant passengers.

5

The covers always feature a overly made-up, blonde, Eastern European in some sort of fancy underwear/fetishwear holding some kind of fancy gun.

6

Hah, my wife looks at me funny when I suddenly rip apart a sock or pair of underwear.

7

A rich diet, exercise, and sure some genetics made all the difference (maybe we should have became underwear models?).

8

For when are we at our most unglamorous yet approachable as when we are folding our underwear?

9

You do find crazy stuff inside computers; various drug caches, underwear etc.

10

If you need shitstains in your underwear use locks and semaphores.

11

The underwear bomber in 2009 was certainly willing, although ultimately inept.

12

* Two-factor auth is a lot easier when you can authenticate by wearing special underwear * Feeling cold?

Quote examples

1

When the app starts I begin at the "Yves Saint Laurent" underwear with the fish on it.

2

In all the hand-wringing about tickets, he never says what's actually wrong with them, except non-sequiturs such as "the same reason wearing underwear in public is different from wearing a bathing suit.

3

She went around the world in 72 days, in the late 1880s, with "the dress she was wearing, a sturdy overcoat, several changes of underwear and a small travel bag carrying her toiletry essentials.

4

> ā€œI’m out here exposing their underwear,ā€ he said.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use underwear in a sentence?

There really is nothing like putting on the thermal underwear + face mask and pedaling home.

What does underwear mean?

Clothes worn next to the skin, underneath outer clothing.

What part of speech is underwear?

underwear is commonly used as noun.