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

Soundcheck and dress rehearsals take place with a spirit of relaxed bonhomie.

From BBC • Jun. 21, 2026

I rubbed it with the back of my hand, grateful that for simulations at least I didn’t have to actually curl my hair or wear the dress.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin