party dress

Example Sentences

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“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

These enticing hors d’oeuvres stay put when you pick them up and do not fall apart, crumble or drip onto your party dress when you bite into them.

From Salon • Apr. 11, 2024

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

From Washington Post • Dec. 21, 2021

At Mama’s insistence, I’m in a velvet party dress, and even Mustafa grudgingly agreed to put on an ironed shirt and some jeans without any holes.

From "Amina's Voice" by Hena Khan