Sunday best
Example Sentences
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Journalists Leslie Ambriz, Krysta Fauria and Gary Gerard Hamilton helmed the red carpet coverage, chatting it up with Grammys attendees and nominees as they showed off their Sunday best.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2025
The Brandenburg Gate has become a hotspot for fans - both English and Spanish - to come dressed in their football Sunday best and pose in their country colours.
From BBC • Jul. 14, 2024
An exquisite portrait miniature of Rose Prentice, a domestic worker in her Sunday best, painted around 1837, joins the constellation of proud, self-possessed Black women to have served as muse to the artist Mickalene Thomas.
From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2023
They wore their Sunday best — coats and ties for the men, dresses for the women.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 19, 2023
Archaide was located in a PvP zone, so I decided to upgrade my gear and wear my Sunday best.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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