How to Use underarm in a Sentence

underarm

1 of 2 adjective
  • The same goes with certain bras and tops, either in the band (of bras) or in the underarm area.
    Louise Green, SELF, 5 July 2018
  • The rest of us wish to have his 8-pack abs and that underarm muscle area thing .
    Megan Gustashaw, GQ, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Smooth out any wrinkles on the sleeves and starting with the underarm seam, iron the sleeve working your way up to the top.
    Jamie Kim, Good Housekeeping, 7 May 2021
  • For the photo shoot, McAdams lounged in a black corset with her arm out to the side, her underarm hair on full display.
    Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Loose flaps of underarm skin can store food and favored rock tools.
    National Geographic, 11 Jan. 2023
  • The addition of underarm zips makes for a quick cool down on the slopes or trail if needed.
    Kevin Brouillard, Travel + Leisure, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Kyrgios had 29 aces, one of them with an underarm serve in the first set that caught Nadal by surprise.
    Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 4 July 2019
  • Dear Heloise: My deodorant can leave stains in the underarm area of my shirts.
    Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2020
  • The woman was also taken to UC, where she was treated for a wound to the underarm.
    William Lee, chicagotribune.com, 18 June 2019
  • Warm weather is upon us, but with that comes a bevy of underarm woes.
    Deena Campbell, Essence, 6 May 2021
  • That type of sweat comes from the apocrine glands, which are located mainly in the underarm and groin.
    Robert J. Davis, CNN, 13 June 2017
  • That type of sweat comes from the apocrine glands, which are located mainly in the underarm and groin.
    Robert J. Davis, CNN, 28 Feb. 2018
  • The ball boys and girls whip balls with a knee-bending, underarm motion, like bowlers or players of Skee-Ball.
    John Branch, New York Times, 21 June 2018
  • Hailey wore classic high-waisted jeans with a cropped top that had cutouts at the underarm area, a tricky place to show some skin.
    Vogue, 27 Nov. 2019
  • If hair-removal is on your mind, there's a lot to go over: underarm fuzz, coarse arm hair, leg stubble, the bikini area and more.
    Sam Escobar, Good Housekeeping, 26 Oct. 2017
  • One of the women who plays in the league has really awful underarm odor.
    Annie Lane, oregonlive, 5 Feb. 2020
  • Even more so, it's got underarm sweat guards for when your nervous system just won't chill.
    Maverick Li, Men's Health, 9 Jan. 2023
  • The refreshing mint and eucalyptus scents serve to both mask body odor and soothe the skin in your underarm area.
    Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 June 2022
  • Here, a look back at all the renegades begging you to hold the razor and go au naturale with your underarm hair.
    Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 31 July 2020
  • However, the last bullet ricocheted off the limousine and hit him in the left underarm and lodged in his lung.
    Deb Kiner | Dkiner@pennlive.com, al, 30 Mar. 2019
  • Symptoms of the disease include fevers, night sweats, itchy skin and the appearance of lumps on the neck, underarm, or groin of patients.
    Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 9 May 2018
  • If hair-removal is on your mind this summer, there's a lot to go over: underarm fuzz, coarse arm hair, leg stubble, the bikini area and more.
    Sam Escobar, Good Housekeeping, 17 July 2018
  • In this small study, researchers put a group of 17 men on meat or no-meat diets for two weeks and collected their underarm sweat.
    Macaela MacKenzie, Allure, 9 May 2018
  • Underarm pads Davood shares that stick-on underarm pads will ensure that your sweat won't soak through your dress.
    Seventeen, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Hinckley’s last bullet, of six shots fired, ricocheted off the limousine and hit the president in the left underarm and lodged in his lung.
    Deb Kiner | Dkiner@pennlive.com, nola.com, 30 Mar. 2019
  • On the other side of the spectrum, Patti Smith's underarm fuzz was a cool complement to her gender-bending style in the ‘70s.
    Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 21 July 2017
  • First-time customers can get a free eyebrow, underarm or bikini-line wax for ladies.
    Doreen Christensen, Sun-Sentinel.com, 19 May 2017
  • First-time customers can get a free eyebrow, underarm or bikini-line wax for ladies.
    Doreen Christensen, Sun-Sentinel.com, 19 June 2018
  • Women who have underarm incisions or incisions in the crease of the breast should not have a problem.
    Brooke Shunatona, Cosmopolitan, 13 July 2017
  • After Medvedev held serve, Monfils won the last three games, surprising Medvedev with an underarm serve on set point.
    Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2022
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underarm

2 of 2 noun
  • My underarms were, for the very first time, ready for their close-up.
    Kate Branch, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2017
  • But that’s not to say the underarm serve is a tool of the unskilled player.
    Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2020
  • At that point, the disease had spread from my underarms to my groin area.
    Allyson Byers, SELF, 1 June 2018
  • The rash is likely to first appear on the neck, underarm, and groin, the CDC reports.
    Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2022
  • My chest is still day-one tanned, but my boobs, underarms, and tummy are as pale as the day I was born.
    Georgia Murray, refinery29.com, 27 June 2018
  • The concerns about the risk of breast cancer largely have to do with the proximity of the underarms to the breasts.
    Emma Sarran Webster, Teen Vogue, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Crescents of sweat were darkening the underarms of the girl’s shirt.
    Emma Cline, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2017
  • Booster tests showed there was an increase in swollen lymph nodes in the underarm.
    Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 23 Sep. 2021
  • There’s also mesh sewn into the underarm and side panels of both shirts to help vent body heat.
    Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 18 Nov. 2020
  • Hunter went limp and a bailiff lifted the former judge, wearing a black dress and white bolero, by her underarms and dragged her away.
    NBC News, 22 July 2019
  • Even on the first wear, there was no underarm or neckline chafing.
    Gabriela Aoun, Outside Online, 23 July 2021
  • Simply point and spray at your underarm for a few seconds.
    Dallas News, 30 Nov. 2022
  • This razor can be used on your legs and underarms and comes with a soft glide cap to help cover your bikini area.
    Steven Rowe, Verywell Health, 23 Feb. 2023
  • He’s also known to be fond of trick shots like going between his legs or underarm serves.
    Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2022
  • The beast growled, the hair from her underarms flailing under the air vents, her unibrow extending from her eyelids to the part of her scalp.
    Iman Hariri-Kia, Teen Vogue, 2 Oct. 2017
  • The bikini area and underarms also tend to be painful because the skin is thinner in these spots, the experts explain.
    Leah Campano, Seventeen, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Down that peeks out from underarms and covers legs seems to be going mainstream.
    Maya Singer, Vogue, 10 Dec. 2018
  • That goes for your hair, fingernails, underarms, and breath, too.
    Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 29 June 2017
  • Garment Guards attach to the underarms of your dress and absorb moisture ($12 at nordstrom.com).
    Lauren Levy, The Cut, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Once puberty hits, hair begins to grow in all kinds of ~specific~ places (like on your underarms, legs, pubic area, face, and, yes, butt).
    Hannah Orenstein, Seventeen, 28 Feb. 2018
  • This antiperspirant leaves underarms dry and odor-free but does leave behind white residue on the skin.
    Lacey Muinos, Health, 25 May 2023
  • What's more: A recent study found that nearly one in four women under the age of 25 have stopped shaving their underarms.
    Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 5 Nov. 2018
  • Now the spot behind the other clavicle was tender, and so were his underarms.
    Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 14 Dec. 2017
  • Lasers can target and destroy sweat glands in the underarm through small incisions.
    Cathy Cassata, Health.com, 5 Nov. 2021
  • The petticoat went firmly around my waist, and my blouse, tailor made to measure in India, closed in the front like a corset, its short sleeves tight around my underarms.
    Meara Sharma, Vogue, 30 Apr. 2019
  • Facing a break point in a critical game, Bublik hit an underarm a second serve that Thiem quickly got on top of and returned deep in the court.
    Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Plus, the material is stretchy and soft and moisture-wicking, with full coverage around the underarms and wrapping around the back.
    Courtney Leiva, Peoplemag, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Her family had two buckets — one for rinsing plates and cups, the other for rinsing their faces and underarms.
    Meredith Blake, latimes.com, 15 May 2017
  • A lot of women can relate—many people look up ways on how to lose arm fat online, and there are tons of workout videos claiming to zero in on the underarms.
    Ashley Mateo, Women's Health, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Williams-Haas demonstrated that white people’s skin could and did get the same condition by scratching her underarm and his.
    Andrea Plaid, Vogue, 8 Mar. 2021

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