Example Sentences

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But I told him to picture funnyman Smith delivering these zingers, and Corrigan would be crying on his overstarched shirt.

From Time Magazine Archive

The traveller, bird of passage he, Stiff, overstarched and insolent, Awakens secret merriment By his embarrassed dignity— Mute glances interchanged aside Meet punishment for him provide.

From Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Spalding, Henry

That rustling, the creaking of his collar on his overstarched shirt band, and the buzzing of the mud daubers round the windows were the only sounds.

From Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise by Phillips, David Graham