dress up

Example Sentences

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I imagine the A.I. bot like a child playing dress-up, donning an oversized blazer and glasses for a game of “businessman.”

From Slate • Mar. 20, 2026

But the display is tiny, the neural-band bracelet control is too fiddly and the glasses themselves make me look like a kid playing dress-up with her dad’s ’70s eyewear.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

The video closed out Beyonce's costume dress-up with the caption "Happy Beylloween."

From Salon • Nov. 5, 2024

Playing dress-up at her grandmother’s, where she’d deck herself to the nines in borrowed costume jewelry, she soon found out that what was encouraged by her open-minded family was derided in the outside world.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2024

I’m wearing a black dress and a cloak, from the dress-up cupboard.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood