Sunday best
Example Sentences
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“You’re dressing up in your Sunday best and you’re going to be there for several hours.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2025
"They would want them to wear their Sunday best and be all clean shaven and looking smart again."
From BBC • Nov. 8, 2023
An exquisite portrait miniature of Rose Prentice, a domestic worker in her Sunday best, painted around 1837, joins the constellation of proud, self-possessed Black women to have served as muse to the artist Mickalene Thomas.
From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2023
Or they’re reading in gardens to children dressed in their Sunday best — Dolly Parton’s “Coat of Many Colors” is a favorite book for performers and kids alike.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 3, 2023
There was one thing, however, that made coming to Sunday service with Gran totally worth it: gawking at the gobs of people strutting into church wearing their Sunday best.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
