dress up

Example Sentences

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“You don’t need to be in a suite to feel like you can dress up for the matches, which I think is really cool.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

Trump loves to dress up in white tie and tails to hob-nob with the royals.

From Salon • May 3, 2026

One party source describes it as "tortoise and hare - maybe one day Ed will even dress up as a tortoise".

From BBC • May 2, 2026

Experts say the trend has been accelerated by the shift to remote work in recent years — in effect, why dress up if you’re not leaving the house?

From MarketWatch • Feb. 26, 2026

Now I thought about how hard it must be to clean a whole house, dress up, and cook dinner when taking care of a newborn that needed constant attention.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas