evening clothes
Example Sentences
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Since movie anti-heroines have often been like that for decades, though, it’s like Ms. Gyllenhaal is expecting applause for being the 75th person to jump in the swimming pool in her evening clothes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026
When court dress was expected at European state functions, Americans considered it unseemly for the representatives of a democracy, so American diplomats were instructed to wear ordinary evening clothes.
From Washington Post • May 31, 2022
"I think it's wonderful to see such beautiful, dramatic and sensational evening clothes," she said of the presentation.
From Reuters • Feb. 14, 2022
The first episode opens on a comedy-club mural, in which a crowd of partygoers in evening clothes tilt up their chins and grin—an invocation of the ballroom photograph from the Overlook Hotel in “The Shining.”
From The New Yorker • Mar. 29, 2019
Two beautiful people, a young man and a young woman in evening clothes, were at the rail in the stern, loving each other and their dreams and the lake.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
