elastic band
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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"I've always said my success has been the equivalent of stretching an elastic band from Stoke-on-Trent to the Moon. Well, I reckon the elastic band just got longer, and now it's orbiting Venus."
From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2026
With a sun visor on backward and a pen stuck in the elastic band, he patiently removed one of his earbuds to better hear a reporter ask why he was still making deliveries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2025
Even if you don’t rotate that many bras, she suggests at least not wearing the same bra two days in a row in order to give the elastic band time to relax and reshape.
From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2024
Two weeks later, she suspended him for a week for allegedly cutting a classroom chair with the elastic band of his face mask.
From Salon ● Dec. 22, 2022
Anne’s sheik was wearing a black-and-orange-striped blazer, gray Oxford bags, a bow tie on an elastic band, and a brown triangular porkpie hat, pinched into a bowsprit at the front.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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