Example sentences for: dress

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

  • In front of the building is a statue of the Duke of Wellington, resplendent in battle dress and cloak astride his trusty steed, Copenhagen.

  • Wolf, whose controversial work has focused on women as sex objects, has reportedly advised Gore: 1) to speak from the heart; 2) to dress in more reassuring earth tones; and 3) to change his image from "beta male" to "alpha male."

  • Either it's "clumsy, lumpy" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ), or the sparring of co-stars Kate Winslet and Harvey Keitel (as a cult member and her deprogrammer) makes for a film that "creates more man-woman electricity than any other movie this year" (Mike Clark, USA Today ). The film's core, a showdown between Keitel and Winslet, is "a knockabout fusion of sexual warfare, New Age therapy, cross-generational Socratic dialogue, and feminist role reversal" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). Mentioned in nearly every review: 1) Winslet bares all; 2) Keitel ends up in a red dress and lipstick.

  • In its most naive form, this theory predicts that if I move the buttons on my dress shirts from the right side to the left, the cost of laundering them will more than triple.

  • The film Zoot Suit, written and directed by Luis Valdez in 1981, depicts the dress, language, and problems of Mexican American youth and especially pachucos in Los Angeles in the 1940s.


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