skivvies

How To Use skivvies In A Sentence

• Is the adjective skeevy somehow related to the slang noun for underwear, skivvies? The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
• The skivvies from the Cabinet Office come in, all lah-di-dah and arm's length. ‘How many of you ponces voted New Labour yesterday?’
• These lumpen skivvies need to understand who their betters are and dig into their pockets, surely. Times, Sunday Times
• After the shoot was over, Curtis decided to strip down to her skivvies and wash off the makeup for some real footage.
• Because although he brought a welcome note of levity and color to the proceedings by popping up at intervals in leopard-skin skivvies and straight jacket and chains, and although Ellen and I had a great time coming up with theories, the play itself wasn't entirely clear on what he was actually doing there. Ragtime
• Assistant engineer makes it sound rather grand, they were just called tape ops really, the skivvies of the recording studio.
• He got down to his skivvies and climbed in the shower.
• Cobblers became centurions, senators became skivvies, and so on. Times, Sunday Times
• At dawn the next morning I stood in my skivvies on the balcony of my room and surveyed the restless sea.
• Their idea blossoms gradually into the film's central story, which has the womanly girls shedding their skivvies for the shoot.