Sentence examples for cuff from inspiring English sources

The word "cuff" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to a band, usually of cloth or metal, that goes around the wrist or ankle, or to refer to the folded edge of a sleeve or pant leg. Example sentence: She adjusted the cuffs of her shirt before entering the room.

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cuff

noun

Glove; mitten.

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His Jeanie's Place is overlooked at 9-1 here but she did remarkably well to overcome a slow start and cuff her rivals by three lengths on her debut.

With the second record it was very much off the cuff, whereas with this one we were clear that we wanted to make an electronic dance record.

These had been especially created by the designer Jeremy Scott, with an extra special detail on them: a bright orange plastic cuff, designed to look like a shackle, with a chain connecting the trainer and the cuff, on each ankle.

This month the Weekend Australian Magazine carried a fetching fashion shoot titled The Bejewelled Bunny in which a fluffy white rabbit modelled expensive jewellery, including a $35,000 white gold and diamond cuff worn on the bunny's ears.

I have seen her do stuff off the cuff journalistically that would make some people haemorrhage from their ears.

Now, we could discuss what Adidas is really saying when it encourages its buyers to wear a chained cuff on its ankles.

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The 10 pages of notes contained a motivational pep talk to himself along with some of his off-the-cuff answers and put-downs.

I’ve been burned, you know?’ Last year, he made an off-the-cuff remark at the end of a Scottish press conference about how the wages earned by Rangers player Paul Gascoigne could finance his own team, Partick Thistle, for a year.

You don't expect off-the-cuff relationship advice at a medieval monastery, but while I went there seeking a few days' respite from the modern world, I came away with a working formula for love as good as anything Elizabeth Gilbert found on her travels.

It had been an off-the-cuff response.

When the inevitable immigration question arose, Australian-born Bennett had powerful things to say in defence of free movement – even if they felt a little rehearsed compared with Sturgeon's off-the-cuff savaging of Nigel Farage.

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