dressed up

Example Sentences

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Washington is a city obsessed with projecting power through stone, and littered with overinflated federal buildings of white marble dressed up with colonnades, pediments and porticos.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

I was looking around at everyone dressed up.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

However nicely these decisions and deciders are dressed up, the results have been absurd.

From Slate • May 13, 2026

Streeting told the BBC that "dangerous misinformation dressed up as expert advice is putting babies' lives at risk - and it must stop".

From BBC • May 5, 2026

One of the Ebgard girls dressed up as Victory, a huge flag wrapped around her like a toga.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson