Sentence examples for long straps from inspiring English sources

It looked simple from the front, but the dress was nearly backless, supported by long straps.

There were smooth leather bags with hanging tassels, snakeskin satchels with long straps and zippered pouches, and clutch purses decorated with dominoes.

Then Mr. Gibson and the others put their gloves on and lowered the coffin into the ground using long straps, providing him eternal rest in the one place in Texas where murderers and other convicts whose bodies are unclaimed can be interred, remembered and, if but for a few moments, honored.

Never use a shoulder strap in the obvious way; instead, take a roomy bag with long straps – the Coach Bleecker Sling, for instance – but shorten the straps by gathering them in your hand, as if taking a pedigree puppy for a walk.

Use long straps to carry the bag over your shoulder.

Most handbags had shorter handles (no long straps).

A shoulder bag on a long strap, a chunky sandal.

All day long, strapping construction workers saunter through the marble lobby in their dusty work clothes.

Now a more bohemian set of fashionable women is adopting the vaguely vintage style of carrying a small bag on a long strap.

He cut loose one end of a long strap on McMahon's Mae West and took the end in his teeth.

While I filled in a sketchy medical history, Judy arranged a mat for me, next to which she placed a long strap, an oddly lightweight brick and a blanket.