Example sentences for: corsets

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

  • Tight corsets never really hurt anybody--the fainting and the displaced organs are long-exploded myths--but fatal infection is a serious current horror.

  • About 30 years ago I attended an exhibition of corsets at a great costume collection in Manchester, England.

  • Popular fashion history claims that the Modern Woman was created when women gave up corsets.

  • Now that we have dismissed corsets as ridiculous instruments of torture, we can safely entertain a vogue for flesh-piercing jewelry.

  • Shakespeare in Love has authentic Elizabethan dress for everybody, but there's a good deal of extra emphasis on the way the period corsets flatten the breasts and strictly encase the ribs--and on how thrilling it is when the corsets come off.


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