His backside, with the vertical line peeking out from the center of his waistband, is a familiar sight in our village.    From Wordnik.com.  [Characters] Reference

A waistband is a lot more trouble and adds an inch or two above the skirt, and most waistbands on patterns are not wide enough.    From Wordnik.com.  [Portrait in Blue, by Gabriel Nicolet, 1856-1921] Reference

Tucked in her waistband was a pistol similar to mine, the compact Glock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edge] Reference

Stuck into his waistband was a knife.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tartarin De Tarascon] Reference

A quick check revealed a 9mm Sig in Lightning's waistband.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twenty-Ten] Reference

A Glock was sticking out of the waistband of his black jeans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twenty-Ten] Reference

John pulls a small box from his waistband and hands them to me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fireworks] Reference

The waistband, which was too wide, Gaskill doubled over and pinned it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference

He carries a Ruger .40 in a waistband holster in the back of his slacks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Big Al Dissects Literary Fiction since No One Else in the Bar could pronounce Aristotle] Reference

The victim said that one of the assailants had a handgun in his waistband.    From Wordnik.com.  [Montgomery County crime report] Reference

But it's bulky and hangs awkwardly from the elastic waistband of my shorts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sound Buy?] Reference

Tucked the .45 in his waistband where the jacket covered it, kept the Sig out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twenty-Ten] Reference

He's still bending over, and I can see a line of whiter skin above his waistband.    From Wordnik.com.  [Freddy in the Future] Reference

The backdoor screeched open and the goatee tucked the revolver into his waistband.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fergus Incident] Reference

Two-a-days that summer and still your belly hung over the waistband of your jeans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pleiku Jacket] Reference

Arethusa reached down into her waistband and drew forth Miss Eliza's parting gift.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference

His white shirt was tucked into his waistband but still looked as if its tail was loose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who Will Carry Us?] Reference

For those who are waistband-challenged, there was poten-tially life-changing news last week.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Gene That Says, 'No More'] Reference

Among the pieces: a gold waistband embedded with nine rubies, 18 emeralds and 2,389 diamonds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shame, The Virtual Weapon] Reference

As our collective waistband expands, Americans pop 225,000 capsules of Metabolife every hour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heavy Meddling] Reference

BOWMAN: Haji Ghani is tall and rangy, dressed in black with a pistol tucked in his waistband.    From Wordnik.com.  [Progress In Kandahar A Matter Of Whom To Trust] Reference

           A small pocket was stitched in the waistband of his shorts to hold keys.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who Will Carry Us?] Reference

I tucked my granola bar into the waistband of my jeans so that Tyler wouldn't steal it from me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christmas Morning] Reference

Tom's rather hollow cheeks and shrunken waistband, they had entirely disappeared from his manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Boys on German Soil Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs] Reference

The only weapon he carried was his jambiya, the traditional Yemeni dagger that dangled from his waistband.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reeducation of Abu Jandal] Reference

A new study in the journal Lancet suggests that your fortune may be written on the waistband of your trousers.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Jiggle May Do You In] Reference

"We are not here to bring supplies like food and medicine," he says, a silver revolver gleaming from his waistband.    From Wordnik.com.  [HELP FROM THE HOLY WARRIORS] Reference

This requires both discipline (never take more than three bites or you won't make it to the end) and an elastic waistband.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eat Your Heart Out] Reference

To calculate how many steps you take buy a pedometer, a motion-sensitive device that resembles a tiny beeper and clips onto your waistband.    From Wordnik.com.  [Health: Hit Your Stride] Reference