lame
Example Sentences
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Five thousand fans, decked out in silver lamé and fishnet tops, packed the floor for two hours of zesty, bilingual club music.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2025
Long finally settled on a longer gold lamé dress by Norma Kamali, and a great time was had.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 28, 2023
The book describes the delivery of gold lamé dresses to a tiny atoll near New Guinea for a show organized by an Army Air Corpsman, Ben Small.
From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2023
Katy Perry appeared in a gold lamé Vivienne Westwood ballgown, a cross between Vivienne Leigh in Gone with the Wind and that foil that you're given to wrap around you if you've run a marathon.
From BBC • May 8, 2023
I select her gold lamé sandals, which have a thick platform sole and an ankle strap.
From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar
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