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

The two women had dressed up and worn badges about the royals for the occasion.

From BBC • May 14, 2026

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

From Slate • May 13, 2026

First of all, Emma wanted to say, I dressed up as a scientist in a lab coat for Halloween in kindergarten, when the other girls were wearing princess crowns.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix