Sunday best
Example Sentences
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The dress code is "Sunday best - red, white or blue".
From BBC • Sep. 20, 2025
Journalists Leslie Ambriz, Krysta Fauria and Gary Gerard Hamilton helmed the red carpet coverage, chatting it up with Grammys attendees and nominees as they showed off their Sunday best.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2025
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
It matched his lowest score ever at Augusta National - he shot 65 in the opening round in the 1996 Masters and was at his Sunday best.
From Washington Times • Apr. 9, 2023
Many folks wore their Sunday best and threw conjure-roses—the beautiful black flowers freckled with crimson that every Conjuror kept close for luck—as the car passed.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
