dress up

Example Sentences

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I imagine the A.I. bot like a child playing dress-up, donning an oversized blazer and glasses for a game of “businessman.”

From Slate • Mar. 20, 2026

But the display is tiny, the neural-band bracelet control is too fiddly and the glasses themselves make me look like a kid playing dress-up with her dad’s ’70s eyewear.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

She lists a few things — playing dress-up with her sister, negotiating with her father, and learning how to manipulate him to get what she wanted.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2025

The resilience of these “based on a true story” series remains intact because so many of these fraudsters resemble the “Goop” founder, and got away with playing dress-up as part of the 1%.

From Salon • Feb. 7, 2025

The salt spray kissed her skin, and Petra thought back to the first time she’d played dress-up when she was eight.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray