dress whites

Example Sentences

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On the tarmac, standing at attention and saluting, were sailors in their dress whites and an honor guard in service dress blues and campaign hats.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2024

There were families, professional types, veterans and one Filipino-American navy officer in full dress whites.

From The Guardian • Jun. 17, 2016

As the train pulled away from Baltimore-Washington International Airport, Darby looked up to see a 20-year-old Navy midshipman named Justin Zemser making his way down the aisle, clad in his dress whites.

From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2016

A few weeks before the El Faro headed to sea, she had changed her Facebook profile picture to a photo of her smiling in crisp dress whites.

From Washington Post • Oct. 5, 2015

Bull reflected on whether dress whites that had been tailored for a one-hundred-ninety-pound man would permit the entry of the same man who now weighed two hundred and twenty pounds.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy