dress
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Some posts on social media called on people to dress up and gather for a "night of darkness".
From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026
Commodus’s idea of a good time was to dress up in gladiator costume and kill scores of wild animals in the Colosseum.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Spooky season culminates tomorrow, and my colleagues have put together a frightfully good list of what to brew, read, and dress up as to get your weekend off to the right start:
From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2026
Roberts called for similar events to be held throughout the year, saying children also needed fancy dress outfits for school discos and other occasions.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
She wasn’t that old, but she always dressed in a no-fashion black smock dress that brushed her ankles.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
"The younger man dresses up to look serious, and the older man dresses down to look like one of the guys."
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
In nearly every speech where he mentions Paxton, Trump has to talk about how hideous the guy is and how poorly he supposedly dresses.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026
DoorDash—now a $78 billion company—has been expanding beyond restaurants to delivering dresses from Macy’s, paper towels from Costco and cold medicine from CVS.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
Gadi Eisenkot, the man who could unseat Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, almost always dresses in plain black, speaks halting English and, reflecting the military culture that shapes him, responds in interviews in bullet-point lists.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
Then a food truck rambles onto the grounds and dazed-looking teens hop out in bell-bottoms; tie-dye shirts; long, flowing dresses; and fringed ponchos.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
The youth-led protests earlier in the day took place in a mostly peaceful and festive atmosphere, with some dressed in outfits ranging from dinosaurs to Batman as the demonstrations coincided with Halloween.
From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026
I’m reluctant to say which of her band members was dressed as a crocodile since I can’t check my memory against a photo.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
When introduced to Ava Gardner by the poet Robert Graves in 1964, Tolkien thought her “a pleasant young woman . . . well but quietly dressed, easy and agreeable, and we got on quite well.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Three high school girls all dressed in pink strut up to the outcast in red flannel and tell her what it takes to be popular.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
She was dressed, like her sisters, in a floor-length gown.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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
"Robene, in dule I am so drest, That lufe will be my bone."
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various
It was drest of Course, and the Suppuration that attended it, entirely cured the Rheumatism.
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot
The hills around Stand proud in order with the valleys deep, The hills with pastures drest, with tall trees crowned, And the low valleys dipt in sunny sleep.
From Poems by Edward Shanks
"Obviously, he is going to apologise in the dressing room, but his mindset is not right to play. You can't rely on him. He is a liability."
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
However, one of the property’s most distinctive features is its elaborate dressing room.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026
Martin inherited a broken, expensive squad, which had lost the faith and connection with supporters and a dressing room which let egos get in the way and lacked work ethic.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Chop herbs, grate cheese, cut citrus wedges and assemble any salads, keeping the greens and dressing separate.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
“They are dressing her for the deck and putting her life preserver on.”
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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