Example Sentences

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While this long-tressed, wasp-waisted sorority recounts what everyone’s been through—kidnapped, poisoned, cursed, and caged—Vanellope teaches them the merits of a life-transforming invention they’ve apparently never encountered in their adventures: comfortable clothes.

From Slate • Nov. 16, 2018

The collection’s body-conscious shapes created a sensation among the fashion press and buyers used to the wasp-waisted, full-skirted “New Look” pioneered by Dior.

From Washington Times • Mar. 12, 2018

With a few swift movements on the lathe, he transformed a cylinder into a barrel-chested, wasp-waisted nutcracker.

From Washington Post • Dec. 9, 2015

Call it the roar of nostalgia, for here was the Tiger of memory, just as broad-shouldered and wasp-waisted and carved-marble as ever.

From Time • Apr. 9, 2010

His garments were of London make, and the long, tight, wasp-waisted coat, buttoned clear up to the neck, seemed to enclose him like a box.

From Là-bas by Wallace, Keene