dress up

Example Sentences

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Now Sunday is a ritual: dress up, meet friends at the 10 a.m. or noon service, sometimes get brunch after.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026

Trump loves to dress up in white tie and tails to hob-nob with the royals.

From Salon • May 3, 2026

One party source describes it as "tortoise and hare - maybe one day Ed will even dress up as a tortoise".

From BBC • May 2, 2026

He has the confidence to only dress up his new dystopia a tad, letting the scale of the oppression creep up on you when, say, an açaí bowl salesman casually asks Tereza for her papers.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

“He used to dress up like a ginkgo tree for Halloween. That was his thing. I don’t know if that’s really awesome, or really sad.”

From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss