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Example sentences for "dress"

Lexicographically close words:
drenches; drenching; drenk; drery; dres; dresse; dressed; dresser; dressers; dresses
  1. Tito had pushed the development of military industries in the republic with the result that Bosnia hosted a large share of Yugoslavia's defense plants.

  2. A History of Dress to the end of the Eighteenth Century.

  3. Her hair was untidy, her dress awry, and her little eyes gleamed with ill-humour.

  4. Her dress was strange, too, for the homely brown print was sure to be looped and decked with fringes of kelp and weed, and she had long strings of shells, sometimes bound round her head, sometimes twined about her wrists.

  5. The dress itself was handsome, but why wear that white lace bertha?

  6. In case you should lay them aside, a sacque of the same material as the dress would be very pretty to conceal the figure.

  7. Some bright rich colour would suit so much better--or something darkly delicate; indeed, before a European audience, I think Miss Greenfield might adopt the Oriental style of dress with the best effect.

  8. Do not dress low in the neck--do not try for showy colours--but keep a plain modest respectable style.

  9. Enclosed you will find the bill for your dress and other things receipted--the receipt you had better keep, lest by some mistake you be called upon to pay the bill bye and bye--such mistakes sometimes happen.

  10. A ray of sunlight fell on her and on a portion of the rye, giving her figure and red dress with the straw under it a curious relief against the nets and oilskins, and forming a natural picture of exquisite harmony and colour.

  11. The simplicity and unity of the dress increases in another way the local air of beauty.

  12. O'Conor and his wife went down to look at the wreck, and when the lady O'Conor saw the silk she said she wished a dress of it.

  13. Accordingly, he did stay, till it was time to dress for dinner; and, feeling interested, I remained also.

  14. Come in,' I said, without turning my head, for I thought it was the maid come to fetch the dress I was going to wear in the evening.

  15. Her dress seemed to be of cambric or dimity, and from Mary's description, was that worn by ladies in the seventeenth century.

  16. It is true that she resolutely refused to follow the prevailing fashion and wear hoop-skirts, but this fact and her long dress simply gave emphasis to the fact that she was grown.

  17. In consequence of these feudal laws and customs, the people were very poor, their houses dark and comfortless, their dress ragged and miserable, their food coarse and scanty.

  18. The Oriental dress has been preserved in Constantinople, and all the manners and customs of the people are similar to what they were in Asia several centuries ago.

  19. But he lived in a quiet manner, and assumed the dress of a member of the Institute, being lately elected.

  20. Troth, if I live, I will new dress the law In sprightly Poesy's habiliments.

  21. And here, as in many other passages, it is noticeable with what a childlike, almost girlish delight, the old bard expatiates on the gay dress of his mighty men.

  22. There she stood, the beloved one, in her bridal dress upon the balcony, and waved her kerchief.

  23. The Duke had a dress of the same kind, but was so immensely corpulent that he looked like Cacofogo, the drunken captain, in "Rule a Wife and have a Wife.

  24. His dress was a rusty brown morning suit, a pair of old shoes by way of slippers, a little shrivelled wig sticking on the top of his head, and the sleeves of his shirt and the knees of his breeches hanging loose.

  25. The town is empty, but is coming to dress itself for Saturday.

  26. We would make him dress instantly, and carry him back to the entertainment.

  27. When a child is subject to attacks of this character, care should be taken to dress it warmly in flannels, so as to keep up a degree of perspiration most of the time, and hot baths should be administered frequently.

  28. Consumptive and bronchial troubles in women are often due to irregularity of dress about the throat and lungs.

  29. She had changed her dress for the ceremony, and was attired in, a loose robe of three-piled crimson velvet, trimmed with swansdown.

  30. His dress consisted of a doublet of red serge with tight black sleeves, and hose of the same colour.

  31. Her dress consisted of a gown of cloth of gold raised with pearls, a stomacher blazing with diamonds and other precious stones, and a surcoat of purple velvet bordered with ermine.

  32. Her dress was neatness itself, and her dwelling as neat as her dress.

  33. Her head-dress consisted of a coif of velvet of the peculiar form then in vogue, adorned with rows of pearls, and confined by a circlet of gold.

  34. I ain't even got a black silk dress to my name, and there ain't another lady in Kilo but's got one.

  35. Mrs. Smith was at the gate, and he could see her white dress in the evening darkness.

  36. His dress was dusty and disordered; his hair and linen rumpled.

  37. Hatless, with dress disordered and wild mien, Pharamond and Phebus dashed into the room.

  38. It shows a man in Venetian dress helping two women to mount one of the niches of a marble palace in order to see some passing show, and to be out of the way of the crowd.

  39. One hand is stretched out, and with the other she lifts her dress as she climbs up the marble steps.

  40. The trees were putting on their dainty dress of tender green, white clouds swept across the blue sky, and April sunshine flooded the room.

  41. And then come the International Dress and Costume Company--all the different countries of the globe show their home life and costumes.

  42. They throwed in a chromo three feet square with the last calico dress you bought at Jonesville, and this hain't over five or six inches big.

  43. And when I mentioned how becomin' such a dress would become me, I see by his words and mean that he had forgot the fountain.

  44. I could see, to ornament himself, or shave his hair, or dress up his big toe, or anything.

  45. And I would stop to see that glass dress all finished off for the Princess Eulaly.

  46. It is as beautiful as any dress ever could be, and Eulaly will look real sweet in it.

  47. He took pride in his dress and was as cleanly as an Englishman.

  48. Ever since her residence in Indianapolis he had felt the girl slipping away from him, and this new departure in the matter of dress seemed to be a further departure in the matter of Rita.

  49. Now to the south he turns; where one vast plain Calls from a hundred hordes the warrior train; Of various dress and various form they show'd; Each wore the ensign of his local god.

  50. He calls to life each patriot, chief or sage, Garb'd in the dress and drapery of his age.

  51. The prince incautious with his men drew near, Known for an Inca by his dress and air; Till coop'd and caught amid the warrior trains, They bow in silence to the victor's chains.

  52. It would now be reckoned as preposterous in an artist to dress modern personages in Grecian or Roman habits, as it was before to give them the garb of the age and country to which they belonged.

  53. Such a dress may likewise be supposed to have continued in the family as a badge of royalty.

  54. So that modern dress has now become as familiar in fictitious as in real life; it being justly considered essential in painting modern history.

  55. She actually hunted up the old dress that was associated with her parting from Claude.

  56. She had heard of girls who had been parted from their lovers for years, putting on the dress which they had worn on the day of parting, so that it might seem that the time they had been apart was annihilated.

  57. A tall girl, wearing a white dress and crowned with shining golden hair, stood on the grass, while above and around her and at her feet scores of pigeons flew and circled and strutted.

  58. She had not failed to notice that the girl's travelling dress was extremely well made, and that her hat was in perfect taste.

  59. He was talking to Clare in front of the blazing logs of the hall fire, and Agnes saw that he now wore the dress of a country gentleman.

  60. Her coloring is positive, and she seems undismayed in rendering any tone of dress or background or face.

  61. The pale blue of the dress and the delicately toned background set off in a poetic and sympathetic manner the character of this fine gentlewoman.

  62. In them the fashions and vanities of costume and head-dress of all periods have been recorded in the daintiest and most minute detail.

  63. Just as many persons in social life who are assured in their exclusive positions dress simply and unaffectedly, so Miss Beckington paints--with directness and sincerity, without display or striving for effect.

  64. She had originally intended to buy one or two small items with which to freshen up her own dress for the dance, but she stubbornly put aside the idea.

  65. When she finally joined her admiring family she was deliciously conscious that a dress of pale gold-colored organdie, and a broad-brimmed hat trimmed with delicate blue flowers, were about the most becoming things she could possibly wear.

  66. It doesn't matter how pretty a girl is--if her dress is dowdy, no one will notice her.

  67. While Nancy poked her dress and tucked in a stray wisp of hair, Alma stood eyeing the modish, self-assured young ladies who primped and chattered before the long mirrors around them, with the round solemn gaze of a hostile baby.

  68. Everything in their manner, their speech and their dress suggested a foreignness to her own nature that could never be bridged, unless she herself changed and became another being.

  69. Too sick at heart for tears, too despairingly conscious of the uselessness of any attempt at reconciliation, Nancy began to dress in a miserable silence.

  70. I promised Madame Lepage that I'd come in to talk over a dress I want for the holidays--and then I've simply got to get a new hat.

  71. If we trot in town on Monday and get the material, we could easily make up a pretty dress for you to wear on Friday night.

  72. Alma would need a pretty evening dress when she went off to school, and she might as well have it now.

  73. Here we crouched on a patch of firm ground, undid our bundles, and proceeded to dress quickly.

  74. Dress quickly and come with me; the way is open.

  75. Especially if it were a fancy-dress affair," I replied in the same tone.

  76. Thereafter, when on issuing day a beef was selected, a man was there to shoot it in the corral and the Indian entered with his ponies to drag away the carcass to dress it outside.

  77. I imagined once I heard the rustle of a silk dress but I am satisfied now that I was mistaken as I believe the sound was caused by the girls husking roasting ears for supper.

  78. As Emmet had by this time arrived with the deer, I set to work to dress it and put things in shape for our departure in the morning.


  79. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dress" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    adorn; anoint; apparel; appoint; arm; armory; arrange; array; attire; badge; bandage; baton; beautify; bedeck; blazon; buff; burnish; button; chain; clad; clothe; clothes; collar; color; costume; cover; cross; cultivate; culture; cure; cut; daub; deck; decorate; decoration; delve; deploy; dig; dizen; drag; drape; drapery; dress; dressing; dub; duds; eagle; embellish; emblazon; emblem; embroider; endue; enrich; enshroud; ensign; envelop; equalize; equip; even; face; fallow; fasces; fashion; fatigues; fatten; feathers; fecundate; fertilize; fig; figurehead; fit; fix; flatten; force; frock; fructify; furbish; furnish; garb; garment; garments; garnish; gear; get; gown; grace; grade; grease; groom; guise; gut; habit; harrow; heel; heraldry; hoe; impregnate; invest; investiture; investment; labor; lap; lard; lay; level; linen; list; livery; lubricate; mace; man; mantle; marking; marshal; medal; misrepresent; mobilize; mulch; munition; oil; ornament; outfit; paint; pin; plan; plane; plaster; plow; plume; pomade; prank; preen; prep; prepare; process; provide; prune; rag; raiment; rake; ready; regalia; rig; rigging; ring; robe; rose; salve; sand; sandpaper; shamrock; sharpen; shave; sheathe; shine; shroud; skirt; slick; smear; smooth; spade; staff; style; suit; swastika; swathe; symbol; tan; tartan; tend; thin; thing; thistle; threads; tie; till; tire; tog; togs; toilette; tool; treat; trim; turn; turnout; uniform; verge; vestment; wand; wax; wear; weed; work; wrap


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    dress ball; dress himself; dress parade; dress suit; dress them; dress uniform; dressed himself; dressed like; dressed myself; dressing gown; dressing made; dressing room; dressing station