costumes
Example Sentences
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Is it any wonder that a city that favors make-believe would take to a holiday that inspires elaborate set dressings and creative costumes, the latter a chance to take on a role other than ourselves?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Montana Levi Blanco’s imposing Elizabethan costumes referred to the opera’s Shakespearean source, and the ruin of the Macbeths was all the more noticeable when their grand ceremonial garments were stripped away.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
And Mylette Nora’s costumes artfully conjure both the underworld and the spiritual realm.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Mr. Mehta needs costumes in five different shades of yellow?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Padva’s costumes and Mr. Barris’s feats of engineering are obvious, the mark of the Burgess sisters is more subtle, though it permeates almost every aspect of the circus.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
