party dress

Example Sentences

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I showed up at the restaurant in a party dress, heels and a big smile, trying not to let memories of finding a table in the school cafeteria paralyze me.

From Salon • Jul. 4, 2025

“You can only put on the party dress, but what happens at the party is up to the gods.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2025

Often, party dress codes—the first of this kind may have been in Vancouver in 2002—encourage their tackiness and that guests compete to see who donned the most disastrous one.

From Slate • Dec. 12, 2024

Want that party dress for a New Year’s Eve event?

From Washington Post • Dec. 21, 2021

My mother inspects the bedroom she used to share with Tfa Felicia, vacant now except for a frilly party dress hanging in the closet.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García