costume ball

Example Sentences

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In the case of Portland, "it was like a radical costume ball and we all got invited," Mr Bogad said.

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2025

Revenge is on her mind, and thus she organizes a motley crew of domestic workers, fallen women, dreamers and scammers to rob the house during a costume ball.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 21, 2023

One of the book’s better chapters is built around Alva Vanderbilt’s eye-popping 1883 costume ball, intended mainly to bring her social rival, the famous Mrs. Astor, to her knees.

From Washington Post • Sep. 23, 2021

"She wore it to a costume ball at the Mansion House in 1964 in aid of one of her favourite charities, the St John ambulance," he said.

From Reuters • Jun. 7, 2021

That night I dreamt that I was at a costume ball in an eighteenth-century French chateau, with huge crystal chandeliers above my head.

From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat