dress

Example Sentences

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His dress is black velvet, proper, distinguished, civilian.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 26, 2026

With young people on social media being told, ‘You need to dress like this, you need to have this, you need to be that.’

From Salon • Jun. 25, 2026

She’d been told the dress code was “casual cute” and felt her outfit delivered.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 23, 2026

"Women are dressed in a wedding dress with make-up… They sing, they celebrate that person, because it's a journey, it's not the end of the life," she tells the BBC.

From BBC • Jun. 17, 2026

Like me, she wore an elaborate dress trimmed with lace and her hair was twisted back into a knot at the base of her neck.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin