Sunday best
Example Sentences
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Journalists Leslie Ambriz, Krysta Fauria and Gary Gerard Hamilton helmed the red carpet coverage, chatting it up with Grammys attendees and nominees as they showed off their Sunday best.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2025
"They would want them to wear their Sunday best and be all clean shaven and looking smart again."
From BBC • Nov. 8, 2023
An exquisite portrait miniature of Rose Prentice, a domestic worker in her Sunday best, painted around 1837, joins the constellation of proud, self-possessed Black women to have served as muse to the artist Mickalene Thomas.
From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2023
They wore their Sunday best — coats and ties for the men, dresses for the women.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 19, 2023
By then most people had finished their church meetings, and some, still in their Sunday best, were out for a walk.
From "Mississippi Trial, 1955" by Chris Crowe
