dresses down

Example Sentences

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Her supervisor, played by Nicole Kidman, dresses down generals in the situation room.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

Wintour tells me she only brought one or two suitcases with her to London and she won’t be drawn on whether she dresses down when she’s at home in the US.

From BBC • Dec. 3, 2024

The hotter sparks fly in the household, though, which never seems more familial than when Schraf’s Linda dresses down her two grown boys.

From Washington Post • Sep. 28, 2017

He dresses down an elderly nun for greeting him with a kiss and takes the name Pius XIII, a callback to a more traditional era in the church.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2017

If I have let your dresses down once this spring, I've let them down three times.

From Melody : the Story of a Child by Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe