Example sentences for: dons

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

  • The novel includes a scene in which the mother, Kate, is too weak to prepare an elaborate luncheon for a group of women, so her daughter dons the apron and, under Kate's direction, cooks a successful meal.

  • A bard, banging a cymbal, chants a story, while his partner — a trained monkey — dons the masks and hats of various Chinese opera characters, mesmerizing the crowd.

  • Set sail on that ocean liner, sheeras a glacier, with moonlight churning below,and in the ballroom take your tall seat at the bar--as the ship glides from the confetti docka generation dons its clothes, then vanishes,and, staring at the hard dew on your glass,

  • And this is particularly true in early October during the annual fair, when the town becomes a blaze of color and noise, and most every man, woman, and child dons typical Andalucían dress.

  • "[I]nvestigative techniques that seem perfectly reasonable when they're applied to murderers or Mafia dons may be unreasonable when they're applied to speeders, jaywalkers, or twenty-five-year-old seductresses."


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