Example sentences for: black-tie

How can you use “black-tie” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The occasion was celebrated, here in Redmond, with a gala black-tie dinner and a nude "fun run" around the Microsoft campus.

  • Afternoon tea and black-tie dinners are still served at the most elegant hotels.

  • Fill in the blank as David Mixner, a gay rights advocate, praises President Clinton at a black-tie fund-raising dinner in Los Angeles: "Ever since 'The Canterbury Tales'--strange crew that was--people have been judged by their ____________.

  • In another scene, he fits into a wedding ("There you are," the grandmother says); but at least he's not the groom--he's not yet dressed in one of those (rented) black-tie outfits that never seem to fit.

  • Thus the Goldmans and daughter Kim were back in Washington in April for the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner, a black-tie schmoozathon for journalists, politicians, and Hollywood stars.


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