Example sentences for: décolletage

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

  • Tolstoy's rendering of Anna Karenina's magic in her black ball gown, or of Princess Betsy's décolletage at the theater, stand out as examples, along with Henry James' magnificent glancing allusions to the emotional power generated by a rustle, a ribbon, the drawing on of a pair of gloves.

  • According to the Globe , Mrs. Clinton's recent display of her own décolletage was actually a pronouncement about the state of her marriage: That revealing new wardrobe and snazzy haircut are a dead giveaway that "it's just a matter of time" before she divorces the president.

  • In the first three cases were diamond brooches made to adorn the spacious dresses of the belle époque , gleaming leaf-and-flower compositions that could sweep across a whole décolletage from shoulder to shoulder, or smaller ornaments festooned with graceful diamond swags and dripping with pendant diamond drops.

  • Modern black sweaters and black leather jackets, black tuxedoes and all degrees of black décolletage are ultimately descended from those great examples, offered by Titian, Velázquez, Rembrandt, et al.


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