Example sentences for: finery

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

  • Gaultier's male models wear full makeup and pencil mustaches with their finery, and they smolder with conviction.

  • The Russian Ballet convention for male costume was established all over the world in the last century, and it allowed any sort of glorious finery above the waist, even with long, plain legs below.

  • Of course, hysterical praise has always been lavished on finery by folk in the business ("It looks terrific, it's fabulous, it's YOU")--and not just in this century, but back through the two previous ones.

  • One reason for this is that Madonna's pregnancy during shooting required her Dior finery to mask her thickening midsection, whereas photos of Evita in the clothes show that her slimness and tiny waist--maintained both by will and by deteriorating health--were a strong focus of her visual appeal.

  • A decade later, he has entered the scene again, dressed now in the finery of the Euro-American, a pitiable white who can't find his heritage but doesn't want to get left behind in the parade of affirming identities.


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