Sunday best
Example Sentences
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Loudspeakers blaring out church songs competed with the cheers of thousands of well-wishers - some of whom were dressed in the church's blue-and-white uniforms, while others sported their Sunday best.
From BBC • May 3, 2025
“You’re dressing up in your Sunday best and you’re going to be there for several hours.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2025
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
It matched his lowest score ever at Augusta National - he shot 65 in the opening round in the 1996 Masters and was at his Sunday best.
From Washington Times • Apr. 9, 2023
We both had put on our new Sunday best jackets, trousers, shirts, and neckties, and we looked right respectful as we stepped up on the ferry.
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
