dress
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She also asked for 120,000 yuan for a wedding dress and jewellery, he claims.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Pyongyang has always been angered by the drills, decrying them as dress rehearsals for an invasion.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
You’re a bit of a rebel and tend to find dress codes arbitrary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Clad in a sleeveless bright green dress, Anderson, 57, radiates an ageless grace, undeniably sophisticated yet unpretentious in her demeanor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Like me, she wore an elaborate dress trimmed with lace and her hair was twisted back into a knot at the base of her neck.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
But Count Binface, who dresses with a grey dustbin over his head wearing a cape and silver armour, could snatch a fifth of the votes, according to a Survation poll.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
BH: The two beaded dresses took over a month because every bead was hand beaded and sewn on.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
"It's not the end of the earth, but there were people on the flight who were getting married, so they've got wedding dresses missing."
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
But Reformation’s dresses are pricier, ranging from $98 to $898.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Soon this too became the fashion at Ashton Place, until even Lady Constance began requesting pockets on her dresses.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
When a 65-foot hot dog sculpture returned to Times Square dressed only with mustard, Heinz and agency Rethink installed a billboard behind it appearing to pour the ketchup.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Mourners dressed in black gathered on Sunday in the pavilion of Wat Lat Pla Duk in Nonthaburi province, bordering Bangkok, where the body of the slain schoolgirl, Naphat Chaima, lay for a ceremonial bath.
From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026
I also met a woman named Colleen and her 8-year-old son, dressed in an Ohtani jersey.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
"It gives you a purpose every day because you have to get up and get dressed to do the video," she said.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
She was no longer dressed in Mother’s glamorous castoffs.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
Members of Congress: “little mannikins, shrewd, gabby, drest in black, hopping about, making motions, amendments.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 17, 2020
The quote from Blake might be bookended by one from Walt Whitman, who wrote that “whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2020
Variations changed to more frequent usage: Commonplace to common-place, despatch/ to dispatch/, drest to dressed, inclos/ to enclos/, inquiries to enquiries, intrust/ to entrust/, steam-boat to steamboat, and unladylike to unlady-like.
From The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book by Leslie, Eliza
Presently a woman made her appearance at the gate; she was genteelly drest, about the middle age, rather tall, and bearing in her countenance the traces of beauty.
From Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery by Borrow, George Henry
Whose snowy cheekes, least joy should be exprest, The weeping pen with sable teares hath drest.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard
She admits she has worried whether dressing modestly will make it harder for her to succeed in this industry, but she finds pleasure in it too.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
Matières Fécales — literally French for “fecal matter” — has gone from an intentionally provocative outsider project to dressing some of the world’s biggest celebrities, including Zendaya, Lady Gaga, Demi Moore and Kylie Jenner.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
One classic study found that dressing more formally for work leads to the higher levels of abstract, big-picture thinking associated with someone in a powerful position!
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
The daily amount depends instead on the type of care, such as nursing care or home healthcare services such as bathing and dressing.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
To my left, a row of curtained dressing rooms lined one wall.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
