How to Use codpiece in a Sentence

codpiece

noun

• Oh yes, there were codpieces, and contact lenses.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2025
• Long before there were jockstraps, codpieces scandalized the world in both art and life.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 13 Dec. 2019
• At some point in the artwork’s past, a vandal scratched or scribbled lines on five of its most prominent codpieces.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 13 Dec. 2019
• European men around the same time wore codpieces to advertise their phallic prowess.
  — John Blake, CNN, 20 Oct. 2017
• Other variations on the theme included a black codpiece-cup and a pair of red leather hot pants, all accessorized with pale, hairy limbs.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 25 Sep. 2018
• Aside from everyone staying a safe length away from Gene Simmons' tongue and codpiece, there was no social distancing.
  — Chris Riemenschneider, Star Tribune, 24 Feb. 2021
• Fashions change, and the current speed demons—cars such as the Pontiac SSEi—wear their prowess like a codpiece.
  — Martin Padgett Jr., Car and Driver, 15 June 2020
• Things jumped the shark when the chat turned to the topic of the codpiece routinely worn on stage by Simmons, also notorious for his theatrically snaking tongue.
  — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2025
• Deacon’s mishmash of bloomers, codpieces, and 16th-century ruffs made of false hair was equal parts Fred Flintstone and Tim Burton.
  — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 28 Sep. 2018
• Ty Lue has instructed all of his players to wear metal codpieces beneath their shorts to increase the likelihood that Draymond Green will have to exit the series with a severe foot injury.
  — Mike Polk Jr., cleveland.com, 4 June 2017
• Some critics see them as the modern-day codpiece (in the 16th century, the fabric pouch evolved from a practical modesty garment into a prominent fashion statement and symbol of masculinity).
  — Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 12 Nov. 2025
• In 1941, a conservator discovered that some details had been changed; most provocatively, some men’s genitals, which Bruegel portrayed in prominent pouches called codpieces, had been painted over.
  — Judith H. Dobrzynski, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2020
• The show begins with a prologue delivered (in Italian, with supertitles) by a commedia dell’arte-style clown in a codpiece (an antic Francesca Sarah Toich), who gleefully describes the transformative power of love.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2017