Example sentences for: corset

How can you use “corset” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Prudie supposes if you're Brooke Astor, e-mail might not cut it, but the handwritten bread and butter note is starting to seem like the whalebone corset, given the modern possibilities.

  • For all the drama of Tripp's appearance at the federal courthouse, since for a change there were no leaks of testimony, the story has one shortcoming that should have thumbnailed it inside next to the corset ads: it produced no news.

  • Modern designers such as Christian Lacroix and John Galliano--and especially Jean-Paul Gaultier--overthrew '60s ideology to reinstate the corset, using them as sexy accents in the early '90s.

  • John Galliano won at $25,000 with a black cotton-satin hourglass corset covered with jeweled sprays and stars and faintly suggesting Jane Russell; followed at a great distance by a $2,000 Yoshibi Ishinuma bikini made entirely of swooping black coq feathers; and a Robert Beaulieu bikini made entirely of pale mink, available at a modest $750.

  • In the brisk new 20 th century, it seemed a good idea for lightly clad but respectable women to cover up their breasts and make sure they were held still--without, of course, reverting to the lines of the old-fashioned corset.


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