7 sentences with 'dress'
Example sentences and phrases with the word dress and other words derived from it.
• « She wore a white satin dress adorned with a jade green belt, her hair pulled back in a braided bun, and a bit of makeup. »
• « But with her understated style of dress - baggy jeans and sporty blouses - she looks more like a poor student than a well-traveled publisher and investor who hobnobs with the titans of cyberspace. »
• « While doing so, he liked to dress in miniature legionary combat boots, for which the troops affectionately nicknamed him "little boots". »
• « In 1490 Botticelli came under the influence of Girolamo Savonarola, an ardent preacher who came to Florence to denounce his "vanities" (art, rich dress and general worldliness) and to call for a strict, even fanatical, form of Christian behaviour. »
• « A black austere dress was associated with Calvinists, who rejected ostentatious dress and decoration. »
• « Everywhere, Calvinists were distinguished by their plain dress and stern attitude towards merriment, celebrations and pleasures of the flesh. »
• « Peter the Great forced the Russian nobility to dress and act more like Western Europeans, sent Russian noble children abroad for education, built a huge navy and army to fight the Swedes and Turks, and (at the cost of semi-slave labour) created the new port city of St Petersburg as the new imperial capital. »