DRESS in a Sentence

Learn DRESS 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 DRESS, such as:
1. Her maid helped her to dress for the ball.
2. The dress is patterned upon a Paris model.
3. Her wedding dress was absolutely exquisite.
4. She looked absolutely fabulous in her dress.
5. I will not wear this dress if you object to it.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of DRESS
dress
 v.  decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods
 v.  arrange in ranks
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  She wore her usual dress of darkish stuff, and there was no bow at her neck; but through her hair she had run a streak of crimson ribbon.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  Her "good" dress had been replaced by the black calico and brown knitted shawl which formed her daily wear, and with them she had put on her usual face and manner.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
3  She looked so small and pinched, in her poor dress, with the red scarf wound about her, and the cold light turning her paleness sallow, that Ethan stood before her without speaking.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
4  In the middle of the floor stood her trunk, and on the trunk she sat in her Sunday dress, her back turned to the door and her face in her hands.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
5  Under her shapeless dress her body kept its limp immobility, and her dark eyes had the bright witch-like stare that disease of the spine sometimes gives.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
6  Her new green flowered-muslin dress spread its twelve yards of billowing material over her hoops and exactly matched the flat-heeled green morocco slippers her father had recently brought her from Atlanta.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
7  The dress set off to perfection the seventeen-inch waist, the smallest in three counties, and the tightly fitting basque showed breasts well matured for her sixteen years.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
8  In spite of her choked-back tears, Scarlett thrilled to the never- failing magic of her mother's touch, to the faint fragrance of lemon verbena sachet that came from her rustling silk dress.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
9  Mother, the lace is loose on my new ball dress and I want to wear it tomorrow night at Twelve Oaks.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
10  Mother, Scarlett's new dress is prettier than mine and I look like a fright in pink.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
11  Scarlett entered her room, set the candle on the tall chest of drawers and fumbled in the dark closet for the dancing dress that needed stitching.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
12  Then, after a discreet pause which gave Gerald's splutterings time to die away, she knocked on the door and handed the dress to her mother.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
13  On the bed lay the apple-green, watered-silk ball dress with its festoons of ecru lace, neatly packed in a large cardboard box.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
14  If her plans were successful, she would not wear that dress tonight.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
15  The green plaid taffeta, frothing with flounces and each flounce edged in green velvet ribbon, was most becoming, in fact her favorite dress, for it darkened her eyes to emerald.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
Example Sentence: (130 in 9 pages)
1  The dress was absolutely plain, but quite stunning.
2  Her wedding dress was absolutely exquisite.
3  She looked absolutely fabulous in her dress.
4  He noticed a woman in a black dress sitting across from him.
5  The same general guidelines on when to dress formally apply to both men and women.
6  The artist has pictured him as a young man in riding dress.
7  Many of the dancers at the fancy dress ball wore colourful masks.
8  Her maid helped her to dress for the ball.
9  Everything ought to be beautiful in a human being: face, dress, soul and idea.
10  Everything ought to be beautiful in a human being: face, and dress, and soul, and ideas.
11  This village has its own traditional dress, cuisine, folklore and handicrafts.
12  The dress is patterned upon a Paris model.
13  She was a vision of loveliness in her wedding dress.
14  If you could wait two minutes, I'm just going to slip into a smarter dress.
15  I will not wear this dress if you object to it.