stretchmarks
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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Unless she sees the telltale signs of Cushing’s, like stretchmarks on a patient’s thighs and stomach, central obesity, high blood pressure, and high blood sugar, she doesn’t worry that their cortisol is too high.
From Slate • Sep. 9, 2025
"We are real women with curves and cellulite and stretchmarks and fat. And we gotta own that, baby."
From Fox News • Jul. 17, 2021
Cabello went on to embrace her cellulite and stretchmarks in the video.
From Fox News • Jul. 17, 2021
This could also cause injury to the skin, showing up as stretchmarks.
From The Guardian • Jul. 5, 2020
With seven silver stretchmarks from her two-egg twins, born to her by candlelight amid news of a lost war.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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