Lycra
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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But we pay a heavy price for comfort: Lycra, which is in almost everything we wear now, lives forever in landfills.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025
Lycra is lightweight, breathable, and can expand and snap back indefinitely.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025
In 1995, he collaborated with Lycra to create the first stretchy jeans.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2024
Squeezed into tightfitting Lycra costumes, they have been wielding oversized pugil sticks, running around floating scaffolds and chasing only slightly less musclebound members of the public up walls, in front of a cheering crowd.
From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2024
She enjoyed the WWF Wrestling Mania shows, where Hulk Hogan and Mr. Perfect, whose necks were wider than their heads, wore spangled Lycra leggings and beat each other up brutally.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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