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Example sentences for "evening dress"

  • They had got together for her a kind of evening dress, a pale blue chiffon-like drapery that left her lovely arms and shoulders bare and clung softly to the lines of her figure.

  • She looked round--searched for him--got a blond-bearded man in evening dress to assist her.

  • Most of the men and women were in evening dress.

  • In it was a man in evening dress, leaning back, his head fallen a little to one side, his arms hanging loosely.

  • Then he 'phoned to me to call for him one evening and to come in evening dress.

  • It was the perfume that hangs about a woman in evening dress.

  • Laura was in evening dress of black lace; her arms and neck were bare.

  • It was only to usher in, almost immediately, a stately personage in an evening dress, and wearing a decoration of a high class, who saluted the monsignore with great cordiality.

  • At this moment there was a tap at the door, and, bidden to enter, Mr. Clifford presented himself with a sealed paper, for the gentleman in evening dress.

  • I unbuttoned my coat and looked down at my shirt front and thought how incongruous and silly that absurd garb of evening dress appeared in those surroundings.

  • Instead of that I dropped to the awful commonplaces of a man in evening dress and a light overcoat standing in the rain talking to a stranger.

  • It was so tiny that she used to carry it, when in evening dress, in the front of her decolletage.

  • The English woman is at her best in evening dress, the jewels are fabulous and the whole affair most dazzling.

  • He must be at liberty, as he is in evening dress, and the ladies will not come downstairs under half an hour.

  • It is a truism of social life that far more distinctiveness is attached to the seemingly democratic severity of evening dress than to any other class of masculine garniture.

  • Dress, stockings and slippers to match are unavoidable in evening dress, but when possible a thick ankle should have a dark stocking--or at least a slipper to match the stocking.

  • But you must never wear an evening dress and a hat!

  • At an afternoon tea the débutante wears an evening dress--a very simple evening dress, but an evening dress all the same.

  • The men in evening dress, the gorgeously attired ladies passing to elevator or drawing-room, seemed to be listening to her.

  • Her throat, in evening dress, never appears unadorned by one or the other of these beautiful bands that so cleverly conceal defects and seem to bring out more richly the texture and coloring of handsome bare shoulders.

  • This costume carries perfectly into effect the requirements of evening dress, and may be worn with equal fitness to formal functions or to informal affairs.

  • It represented an impossibly large-eyed girl, cowering behind a door on whose other side stood a handsome devil in evening dress.

  • They made an odd-looking couple, both in evening dress, promenading a country road.

  • Every woman was in evening dress and so was every man.

  • There were no satyrs or bassarids, but gentlemen in polo garb, in evening dress, in yachting flannels.

  • And I hate it worse when I'm in evening dress.

  • She would be in evening dress, of course.

  • But certainly I was hired to kidnap single gentlemen in evening dress, as many as I pleased, but military officers by preference.

  • We are here three artists benighted and without shelter, one a woman - a delicate woman - in evening dress - in an interesting situation.

  • There, in evening dress, lights burning and blind up, sat our friend, Dr.

  • He was in evening dress, but a red sash round his waist gave a touch of picturesqueness and a dash of colour.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another good; each county; evening clothes; evening dress; evening paper; evening parties; evening party; evening reception; fairly well; finely granular; four books; half dozen; heart tells; here described; international affairs; large space; love divine; making fire; nationalize slavery; perfectly splendid; point where; put into; small quantity; thou seest; turned away; with such