dress
Example Sentences
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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
The seller of men’s dress shoes mails roughly 15,000 packages a month.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
Because I knew to look for it, I saw the faint surgical scar peeking above the neckline of the child’s dress.
From Slate • Mar. 29, 2026
Mia, a year 11 pupil, said it would "help lessen the stress and stop the burden of paying £300 for a dress".
From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026
They hadn’t been able to brush all the chalk dust out of Miss Myrt’s dress, so she looked natural.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
