evening dress
Example Sentences
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She said she used to attend some classes “wearing my evening dress under my Burberry, with my diamonds in my pocket so I could go out afterward.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
Items included the "perfect" white cotton t-shirt, a striped blue "boyfriend" shirt and white linen trousers, as well as more formal items such as a black wool blazer and a full-length, ivory-coloured evening dress.
From BBC • Mar. 24, 2025
On a late Tuesday afternoon in September, Diane Sun stood at a White House presidential podium in an evening dress and recited her poem, “a recipe for steaming almost-dragon.”
From Seattle Times • Nov. 2, 2022
Technically, they should only be worn with full evening dress, known as white tie, but as that hardly exists any longer … oh, go ahead.
From Washington Post • Dec. 21, 2021
There was Etta’s long blue crêpe de chine evening dress and some white pumps and a rhinestone tiara for her hair.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
