Example Sentences

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Shaking out the bedding provided in a brown paper bag, I watched my fellow passengers make up their berths, tucking in starched sheets with the ease of seasoned travelers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 29, 2025

Waiters float about in starched whites under slow fans and amber lights.

From Salon • Jul. 12, 2025

Even many of his supporters expected Lurie, with his starched shirts and monotone voice, to approach the new job as more of a public policy nerd than a cheerleader-in-chief.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2025

The software used by the engineers at the truss manufacturing plant allowed the designer to make the trusses stiffer than an old-fashioned starched shirt collar.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 25, 2023

The kind ones recognize, somewhere deep inside their starched uniforms, that there is something perverse about what they're doing.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse