DRESSES in a Sentence

Learn DRESSES from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

340 example sentences for DRESSES, such as:

1. She dressed herself in a gown.
2. He was fully dressed, including shoes.
3. He dressed them down for the awful performance.
4. Why, every girl here is wearing dresses you brought in.
5. People still wore their hair short and dressed conventionally.

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 Meanings and Examples of DRESSES
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
dressed
 a.  treated with medications and protective covering
 a.  dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination
dress
 n.  a piece of clothing for women that covers the top body and hangs down over the legs
 v.  put clothes on yourself or someone else, especially a child
dressing
 n.  a mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meats and vegetables
 n.  the activity of getting dressed; putting on clothes
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Their beauty she accepted as casually as the air she breathed and the water she drank, for she had never consciously seen beauty in anything but women's faces, horses, silk dresses and like tangible things.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  It was delicate embroidery if company were present, but at other times her hands were occupied with Gerald's ruffled shirts, the girls' dresses or garments for the slaves.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  There entered with her the faint fragrance of lemon verbena sachet, which seemed always to creep from the folds of her dresses, a fragrance that was always linked in Scarlett's mind with her mother.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
4  There remained varicolored cotton dresses which Scarlett felt were not festive enough for the occasion, ball dresses and the green sprigged muslin she had worn yesterday.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
5  Mammy, as head woman of the plantation, had remained to help Ellen, and it was Dilcey who rode on the driver's seat beside Toby, the girls' dancing dresses in a long box across her lap.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
6  With her four daughters, their mammy and their ball dresses in long cardboard boxes crowding the carriage, there was no room for the coachman.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
7  Under the arbor sat the married women, their dark dresses decorous notes in the surrounding color and gaiety.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
8  If there had not been a war, Scarlett would have had third-day and fourth-day and fifth-day dresses to wear to the Fontaine and Calvert and Tarleton parties in her honor.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
9  And they're afraid their new dresses won't show off behind booth counters.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
10  If I've had to look at one dress today I've had to look at twenty dresses that he ran in.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
11  How wonderful it would be never to marry but to go on being lovely in pale green dresses and forever courted by handsome men.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
12  Why, every girl here is wearing dresses you brought in.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
13  Even the cheapest cotton goods had skyrocketed in price and ladies were regretfully making their old dresses do another season.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
14  Nor could she borrow a dress, for the satin wedding dresses of years past had all gone into the making of battle flags.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
15  Had he been less obviously masculine, his ability to recall details of dresses, bonnets and coiffures would have been put down as the rankest effeminacy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
Example Sentence: (130 in 9 pages)
16  People still wore their hair short and dressed conventionally.
17  She dressed herself in a gown.
18  He was fully dressed, including shoes.
19  He tried to organise things so that the trip would be dressed up as a UN mission.
20  He dressed them down for the awful performance.
21  The girl was well dressed, as usual, though in a more conservative style.
22  It was the White Rabbit returning, splendidly dressed, with a pair of white kid gloves in one hand and a large fan in the other.
23  I dressed myself in nautical rig, and went on deck to see all that I could.
24  Sometimes an ellipsis can lead to a dangling modifier, as in the sentence "Once dressed, you should refrigerate the potato salad.".
25  Today, you can see people dressed up in kangaroo costumes and waving flags at streets of Australian cities.
26  The mannequin is dressed in brunet wig, glasses and a red business suit.
27  In America, Benazir Bhutto dressed as Western women did; in Pakistan, however, she followed the mores of her people, dressing in traditional veil and robes.
28  The queen, dressed in regal purple, was joined by her husband.
29  She was dressed in pure white; amber-colored scarf was passed over her shoulder and across her breast, fringed ends below her knee.
30  A good tanner is a skilled laborer, and these Indians were not only expert makers of dressed leather, but they tanned skins and peltries with the hair or fur on.