Example sentences for: costume

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

  • Displays of historical costume have always revealed the way fashion-plate chic used to be adapted by clever dressmakers for the beefy or dumpy or flat-chested, but we're now used to thinking that fashionable bodies are molded to fit the mode, with the help of individualized exercise, liposuction, and implants.

  • With cinematographer Zhao Fei, production designer Santo Loquasto, and costume designer Laura Cunningham Bauer, Allen re-creates the world of urban supper clubs where gangsters mingle with jazz artists and high-society vamps and where the music itself seems to smooth over class distinctions.

  • In American life, a dark suit is a given; it is a costume generated out of modern man's honorable and heroic past, particularly his political past.

  • This is the costume, not of "power," as people woozily say, nor of rigid conformity and unimaginative conservatism, but of classic and flexible modernity.

  • Thousands of participants as actors, audience members, production crew, costume and set constructors, ushers and donors contributed to and still support the continuous success of the theatre.


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