dress up

Example Sentences

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Sticks are twirled like weapons, and at one point, the dancers pull many props out of a sack — balls, pillows, masks — like a band of traveling players or kids playing dress-up.

From New York Times

What if, instead of a high school tradition, the dress-up bit was part of a silly shtick for the town follies?

From Washington Post

So Mr. Ghesquière delved into his memory box, remixing bits and pieces of the recent past, changing proportions, clashing patterns and messing with history in a complex game of dress-up and allusion.

From New York Times

Yet backstage, after the show, Demna said the tape wasn’t just a joke — it was also a nod to the dress-up experiments he’d done as a rootless child.

From New York Times

It’s an enduring obsession born from the days of the dress-up flash games in the early aughts.

From The Verge