Example sentences for: robes

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

  • Vault 3, the smallest so far opened to the public, is a command post with 68 officers in war robes.

  • At holy places you’ll find Ethiopian Christians and Jews wrapped in delicately handwoven white robes.

  • A little farther on lies the Casa de los Árabes (Calle Oficios, 12), a Moorish-style 17th-century building that now comprises a bazaar piled high with carpets, robes, and pottery; Havana’s only place of worship for Muslims; and a lovely restaurant tucked away in the courtyard.

  • They remain some of the most evocative images of the 1970s, those film clips of sheiks clad in flowing robes and luxuriant headdresses, striding confidently from hotel lobbies into waiting limousines, secure in the knowledge that in controlling two-thirds of the world's oil reserves, they controlled the lifeblood of the industrialized world.

  • He is working to bring "the cost of college into reach for working people," for the kid in the robes and the young woman whose photograph (in another cut-rate scene that works) is double-exposed over a hallway of empty lockers.


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