Example sentences for: costume

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

  • (The conventional wisdom on the 18 th -century painter: He was said to be "a decadent ally of aristocratic taste"--Solomon; "an advocate of pomposity, cynicism, and costume drama"--Francis Haskell, New York Review of Books .) Hughes sees new levels of wit in Tiepolo's paintings: "[T]he distanced, self-aware theatrics of his style--his parade of visual language as a source of delight--make him look modern."

  • More obvious in its intent to amuse is a striking 19 th century Kabuki costume with a shoot-me-here target on the back and an arrow through the bull's-eye.

  • Curators and costume historians remain skeptical.

  • The most talented of the lot, a man who just released a penetrating movie about war and moral decay, is now negotiating a deal to direct costume dramas and love stories for Miramax.

  • About 30 years ago I attended an exhibition of corsets at a great costume collection in Manchester, England.


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