Example sentences for: costumes

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

  • The monastery’s museum traces the kingdom of Naples’ long history in costumes, sculpture, paintings, and prints.

  • You may wish to pay a visit to the charming Museu Etnográfico do Trajo Algárvio (Museum of Algarvian Costumes), where exhibits of local dress are well staged in a large, old house 90 m (100 yds) or so off the main square.

  • Exquisitely detailed dolls in ancient costumes representing the imperial couple and other aristocrats are displayed for good luck.

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

  • Costumes have more scope, however; some tend toward approximations of current fashion, with many ponytails, little bandeaux under boleros, and several bare midriffs, along with S&M trappings in better or worse arrangements, and a range of recent and remote historical allusions.


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