dress
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Girls and women dress in ankle-length skirts or overalls, wearing their hair loosely covered.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
Three real-life best friends demonstrate how to dress from the ground up with playful flowers, high-shine leather and, in one case, high heels with lily pads.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
After delivering punchy renditions of new tracks Wink Wink, Yeah and Card Declined, she stepped out to change from a black sparkly blazer into a black corseted dress.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
With older members of the group struggling to climb the bank, Poonguzhali Ponmambadan, 61, unwrapped her sari dress and gave it to her husband to use as a rope.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
Though whether Tansy was to change her mind or her dress, Aunt Maud didn’t say.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
Reading from the pages, he quotes, “‘His usually great color sense failed him, his fabric sense failed him, and certainly, his sense of how a modern woman dresses after 8 p.m. failed him.”
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026
Dickson said the brand had missed the mark in key summer categories such as dresses, shorts and bathing suits and that its marketing failed to drive enough business.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Shein has been successful in enticing customers with its extremely affordable offerings, such as shirts for under $2 and dresses for less than $3.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
Gina also bought a range of other wedding dresses for her wedding-themed hen do.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
His wife gave me two old dresses and a photograph of herself—I tore the picture up the minute I was out of sight!
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
To paraphrase the late great Chick Hearn, “If the attendance was 51,144, many fans came dressed as empty seats.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
Posts on social media showed fans arriving for the event, some dressed in gold to match the vehicle.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
One individual also came dressed as a courgette, a reference to Internet Girl's so-weird-it-almost-works refrain, "Eat zucchini".
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
But getting dressed required parental assistance, the bass pulsing off the sandstone was a techno remix of “The Wheels on the Bus,” and the drinks were apple juice and formula.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Somehow I’d gotten myself out of the pool and dressed and into Nate’s truck.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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
At best, He's but a caterpillar drest; The gaudy fop's his picture just, as poor Richard says.
From The Life of Benjamin Franklin Illustrated by Tales, Sketches, and Anecdotes by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich
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 Richard Crashaw
So the king drest him-self so that he would not be known, and went at night with two of his men to see the witch of En-dor.
From Young Folks' Bible in Words of Easy Reading The Sweet Stories of God's Word in the Language of Childhood by Josephine Pollard
So it’s more dressing her, helping her put the dress on, the logistics of it, which is where the friendship comes in.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
And in a shift in strategy, veterans Jordan Henderson and Danny Welbeck were brought in to add experience and their consummate professionalism to the Chelsea dressing room.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Served alongside native beach succulent, these Asian-style dumplings come topped with sesame seeds and a gochujang anise myrtle dressing.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
"All of this is nothing more than window dressing on the part of companies why they continue to abuse and exploit their customers."
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
The electrified lamp above the dressing table still glowed.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
