And some of the best men's clothiers in town were at a loss to know where such a starching could be had.

At the armory, he said, "you walk in and feel like all your clothes just received a starching."

The starching of formal-wear shirts reached an apogee in the 1890's.

Cholos are known for starching and pressing their pants and shirts.

The lace-edged apron shows creases from starching and ironing, 1630.

In the 19th century and early 20th century starching was commonly used to make clothing more resistant to stains and wrinkles.

Starch fans should take note that even normal starching takes a serious toll on cotton shirts, causing the fibers to become brittle and prone to fraying.

It was adopted after World War II and was "blocked" with heavy starching and ironing until it was replaced with a baseball-style cap during the Vietnam War.

These mixed OG-107's were often referred to as "Dura-Press" or "Permanent press" as they did not require extensive starching and they could often be quickly identified by a yellow tag in the garment.

Mussolini ordered Fascist party members to detach themselves from bourgeois culture, including abstaining from going to nightclubs, drinking coffee, wearing formal evening dress and starching their collars, which were all considered bourgeois traits.

The one on the left side will take the starch out of anything living.

It takes a lot longer to break down a starch, however.

It is made in a similar way but using more starch.

At last the starch has gone out of the snow.

This was what happened in the case of the report on starch production, for example.

Until recent years this was the primary focus of starch analysis.

Starch ran his own company for 50 years until retired in 1973 at the age of 90.

Many crops can be used as the source of starch.

He has begun to lose a bit of his military starch.

We'll look at the chemistry behind starch in the next section.

I'd think things like starch, oil, water, and alcohol would be good to try.

The higher the level of starch, the healthier the tree.

There is no way to take the starch out of the potato, at least not yet.

Then the starch suddenly went out of him, and he tightened his arms around her.

He also needs to put some starch in his jab.

The sugar can be stored in the form of starch.

A machine gun will take the starch out of any walking dead.

Where are we going to find funding for such areas as starch potatoes?

The costs of the market organization for potato starch are being kept under control.

And it has the starch content of the potato to thank.

Even before the court ruled, the starch seemed to be going out of the whole undertaking.

Instead the starch is melted under high pressure in the presence of water.

Since there was no starch, I allowed each cook to fill in as he wanted to.

"I used the last of the starch the day before yesterday," she answered.

A near-death experience can really take the starch out of a guy.

His shirt was so white that it must have been starched.

The big soft bed, with the pillows starched and white.

She always looks as if she'd just been starched and ironed.

The cloth is finally starched and stretched on a frame.

And now starch is looking like the enemy again.

It was crisp, like a new bank note or a thing washed and starched.

Even after we landed, his shirt looked like it had been freshly starched.

His voice was starched as well, but showed heavy hints of irony.

My hair looked like it had taken 2,000 volts and been spray starched.

His opened collar stood up straight and stiff, as if it had been starched.

They had been tailored to fit his body and were stiffly starched.

This is because the sweetness quickly turns to starch.

"I starch them so they stand out," she said of her ostentatious head ties.

At times like this, my English accent seems to become even more ostentatiously starched.

They had on crisply starched, dark green, short sleeve shirts.

Cells can break starch down into glucose by taking the chains apart.

Then she got a cook's hat, tall and stiffly starched.

His fatigue uniform was starched and tailored to fit him like a second skin.

The sheets were starched, and the shiny surfaces pulled heat away from his skin.

After a day or two, they return the linen washed, sometimes starched and ironed.

Sounds more to me like ingrained habits of thought starched in prejudice.

He sounded like a wireless announcer, maybe even more clipped and starched.

He rarely wears a tie, even though his shirts are fully starched.

The third floor had other areas for starching, shirts, hosiery packing.

The white shirt was starched and the shoes shone.