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
At the city's Agii Anargiri Church, we watch as he leads a packed service, with worshippers in their Sunday best kissing icons and bowing heads.
From BBC • Feb. 13, 2024
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
Or they’re reading in gardens to children dressed in their Sunday best - Dolly Parton’s “Coat of Many Colors” is a favorite book for performers and kids alike.
From Washington Times • Jul. 3, 2023
On Thursdays kitchen girls and garden boys, dressed in their Sunday best, continued coming to the townships to spend their day off with their families and friends.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
