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.

For DRESS, below is one of 340 sentences:
On the bed lay the apple-green, watered-silk ball dress with its festoons of ecru lace, neatly packed in a large cardboard box.

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 Meanings and Examples of DRESS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
dress
 n.  a piece of clothing for women that covers the top body and hangs down over the legs
 v.  put clothes on yourself or someone else, especially a child
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2  Her "good" dress had been replaced by the black calico and brown knitted shawl which formed her daily wear, and with them she had put on her usual face and manner.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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
14  If her plans were successful, she would not wear that dress tonight.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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 Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
Example Sentence: (130 in 9 pages)
16  Singers performing Mozart's operas often dress in/wear historical costume.
17  I'm going to wear my black dress with the V-neck.
18  People had to wear formal evening dress to go to the Mayor's party.
19  People in western countries sometimes went to the party in fancy dress.
20  I wore a white dress and was barefoot.
21  She looked radiant in a white silk dress.
22  Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.
23  Against her black dress, her diamond necklace stood out clearly.
24  Most evenings there's a party and the dress code is strict - black tie only.
25  She wore a sleek little black dress.
26  She embroidered silver stars on her blue dress.
27  She wanted to buy the orange dress,but we persuaded her that the blue one was more becoming.
28  The painting portrays a beautiful young woman in a blue dress.
29  Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
30  He cannot afford to buy her a new dress, not to mention a gold ring.