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Example sentences for "dressed like"

  • Dressed like a citizen, and mounted on a mule, I went out and made my way to the rebel picket line, where I tried to pass in, but was informed by the pickets that they had orders forbidding them to pass citizens in or out.

  • I started out quite early in the morning, mounted on a mule, dressed like a citizen in easy circumstances.

  • I made the trip on horseback, dressed like a citizen.

  • So there he was, dressed like a clodhopper, and all these servants dressed like princes, bowing and scraping to him.

  • My mistress soon returned, dressed like a nymph.

  • I hope you will take your letter to the cardinal, dressed like a modest abbe, and not in this elegant costume which is not likely to conjure fortune.

  • See what it is to be dressed like a person of quality!

  • Here he dressed like a Dutch sea-captain and spent his time with sailors and ship-builders, and thoroughly enjoyed the difference between this new life and that at home.

  • After a time a young master, dressed like a priest, came out of the school door and walked over toward Bonaparte.

  • The third was looking at a small boy, who, dressed like Mr. Cooper in buff clothes, stood at one side of the porch.

  • The night that she had come in, weeping, dressed like a lady.

  • It was, first of all, a fear of the other woman dressed like that, and then it was a fear not less agonizing of the loss of her six a week.

  • Hubert--and the woman dressed like that!

  • But there was the other woman--dressed like that!

  • He was thin, dressed like a dandy, with a pretty varnished mask on his face.

  • She is dressed like a lancer, and she tortured me the most yesterday, and suggested burning me; and it was she who set fire to the wood.

  • Dressed like that, the doctor had the appearance of an old young man, with his spare body under his thin coat, and his large head covered with white hair.

  • I was last week at the masquerade, dressed like an old woman, and passed for a good mask.

  • My Lady Granville came late, dressed like Imoinda, and handsomer than one of the houris - the Prince asked her why she would not dance?

  • In a few moments the door opened and a tall personage, dressed like a woman, with a heavy veil over her face, entered.

  • A young man, dressed like a mechanic, answered the summons.

  • I do not wish that my daughter should be dressed like a doll," said Mrs. Diantha, coolly.

  • The speaker was a man with long hair and beard, dressed like a peasant, in a conical fur cap and a sheepskin coat, though his voice, manner, and general appearance showed that he belonged to the higher classes.

  • He was weather-beaten and travel-stained, dressed like a peasant, and carried his boots slung over his shoulder.

  • The officer who occupies it is dressed like an ordinary general, and there are thousands of generals!

  • Yes, and what a good Siamese noble your father would make if he dressed like some of ours," said Phra, with a faint smile.

  • Those are all that you will need, and be the best things to hide you; for no one would think that you could be sahibs, dressed like that.

  • What a capital English gentleman your father would make if he dressed like us," said Harry, for the sake of saying something.

  • She was eighteen or twenty at most, dressed like a young man, but small and feminine and rather pretty, except that one eye was blind.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dressed like" 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:
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