Example sentences for: costumes

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

  • The style of that era was set by the Mack Sennett Bathing Beauties of the silver screen: naked arms, shoulders, backs, and armpits topped off skimpy costumes baring knees and an inch or two of thigh.

  • Most notable is the way men's costumes for this quasisport have largely kept their dignity, while women's have burst into hysterics.

  • The clothes, too, have the fantasy look of things not made with hands, things always more fleetingly pungent or allusive than they are authoritatively beautiful, visions that float across the TV screen on the bodies of the fantasy figures for whom they have been designed, costumes for one performance.

  • The costumes, choreography, instruments, and singing — all quite unique to China — might seem strange to Westerners, but these highly stylized elements are part of a familiar tradition that many Beijingers love.

  • Later, under the innovative direction of Sergei Diaghilev, Nijinsky's "Rose" and "Faun" costumes, among others, gave rise to a host of abstract creations for the male body.


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