well-pressed

Example Sentences

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In the vestry, surrounded by racks of well-pressed white surplices and brightly coloured vestments, I met Ian and Paul, one of the couples he has blessed.

From BBC • Dec. 24, 2025

In that role, Williams was a regular presence at police graduations, news conferences, community meetings and other events across the city, often wearing a well-pressed suit and a bowtie.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2024

Behind all the floor-to-ceiling glass, pert, well-pressed salespeople tinker with clothes in empty stores, with security guards poised blankly at the gilded doors.

From Slate • Dec. 14, 2020

With his gravelly voice and his lack of senatorial sheen — even in a well-pressed suit, he somehow radiates rumpledness — Sherrod Brown could have wandered into the Senate from Depression-era proletarian literature.

From Washington Post • Dec. 12, 2018

My eyes ran hungrily over the well-pressed uniform with its rows of brilliant-colored battle ribbons.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom