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Example sentences for "black dress"

  • The Cub leader shook it out, revealing a woman's black dress trimmed in diamond-shaped jet buttons.

  • She seemed to be quite an old lady in a black dress and a shawl of the same color.

  • I could tell you something about that black dress, if I had a mind to!

  • Then you said I took wood and the Widow's black dress.

  • By Jove, he has got a black dress-coat, and a white tie!

  • Men in black dress-coats descend now and then into London sewers, and that, too, without being in the least affable.

  • In Paris, they say, with a black dress-coat and affability, you find your way into the most fashionable drawing-rooms.

  • Van Dyck 84 Portrait of the Earl of Strafford, in a black dress.

  • Baroccio 23 Portrait of the last Duke of Urbino, in a black dress, with a gold chain and badge of the Golden Fleece, his hand resting on a book L6 2s.

  • Venetian 94 Portrait of the admirable Crichton, in black dress, seated holding a sword and a book; with long inscription.

  • Yulia Sergeyevna made her appearance, wearing a black dress with a big diamond brooch, which her father-in-law had sent her after the service.

  • On the sofa lay Polina Razsudin wearing a black dress and a sash, with a newspaper in her hand, fast asleep.

  • Then I ought to get a black dress at once," she said.

  • She knows all about my black dress and my crape?

  • And Sophia Maria would wear crape and a black dress too?

  • He saw a tall woman, very thin, in a black dress.

  • He looked at me, and I pointed to my black dress.

  • I sat quite still, my hand lying on my black dress, and my thoughts with mother and father, and in a sort of way also with Mr. Fanning and my future.

  • Then he turned his eyes upon the fair girl in a black dress.

  • You have a black dress here, haven't you, Lena?

  • He wore a white mess-jacket, a black dress waistcoat, and white trousers.

  • Kate has at last inveigled her mother into letting her have an all-black dress which we rather suspect was bought with the especial purpose of impressing you with her advanced age and dignity!

  • She looks through the clothes they have, to see if there is not a black dress or suit that can be used, and makes a list of only the necessary articles which will have to be procured.

  • You make up your mind that you are going to get a black dress and a dark blue--and nothing else.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "black dress" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    black basalt; black bird; black cattle; black chalk; black coffee; black color; black crape; black dots; black earth; black flies; black frock; black hellebore; black letter; black magic; black man; black pigment; black pudding; black sand; black sheep; black slave; black woman; blackish colour; committing suicide; first book; natural tendency; work was