Examples of wasp waist in a Sentence
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Bright yellow stripes, with that narrow wasp waist, and a smooth, furless body.
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Bethany Brookshire,
Good Housekeeping,
18 June 2022
Gucci and Balenciaga logos were splashed across monogram outerwear and boulder shoulder, wasp waist suiting—clearly Demna's influence.
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Alison S. Cohn,
Harper's BAZAAR,
15 Apr. 2021
The California Gold Rush was responsible for turning the wasp waist of the Americas into a crazily congested thoroughfare.
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Gary Kamiya,
SFChronicle.com,
2 Oct. 2020
Ideals of female beauty that can only be met through painful processes of physical manipulation have always been with us, from tiny feet in imperial China to wasp waists in nineteenth-century Europe.
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Jia Tolentino,
The New Yorker,
12 Dec. 2019
Enamored, ladies followed Hepburn’s lead, penciling in their eyebrows with points and cinching their middles to imitate the former ballerina’s wasp waist.
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Alice Bell,
Vogue,
12 Mar. 2018
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Bethany Brookshire,
Good Housekeeping,
18 June 2022
Gucci and Balenciaga logos were splashed across monogram outerwear and boulder shoulder, wasp waist suiting—clearly Demna's influence.
—
Alison S. Cohn,
Harper's BAZAAR,
15 Apr. 2021
The California Gold Rush was responsible for turning the wasp waist of the Americas into a crazily congested thoroughfare.
—
Gary Kamiya,
SFChronicle.com,
2 Oct. 2020
Ideals of female beauty that can only be met through painful processes of physical manipulation have always been with us, from tiny feet in imperial China to wasp waists in nineteenth-century Europe.
—
Jia Tolentino,
The New Yorker,
12 Dec. 2019
Enamored, ladies followed Hepburn’s lead, penciling in their eyebrows with points and cinching their middles to imitate the former ballerina’s wasp waist.
—
Alice Bell,
Vogue,
12 Mar. 2018
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“Wasp waist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wasp%20waist. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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