dress

Example Sentences

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It depicts her in a black dress, ready to depart from her home in Eagle Bridge, N.Y., in November 1940, for Manhattan, where Gimbels department store was displaying her works.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

"To all the ARMYs coming to watch, please make sure to dress warmly!!"

From Barron's • Apr. 9, 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

Freezing weather meant Nasa had to postpone the first full dress rehearsal as it was too cold to fuel the SLS rocket.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 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