Use "evening dress" in a sentence
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evening dress
1. ‘Now that is what I call a winter’s evening dress
2. Maybe she’s singing tonight … I hang on a minute to see if she’s dressed up – Jo has some absolutely lovely evening dresses
3. This is where the dumpster was when they found that dead three hundred pound professional wrestler wearing a black evening dress and high heels - that sort of thing
4. When I arrived at the hall that evening dressed as an angel--a costume I'd
5. “Shouldn’t you be in class or something?” I teased her when I walked out of the change rooms wearing a lavender evening dress she hand picked
6. That evening my ‘date’ arrived at the restaurant with an elderly woman in a turquoise evening dress and craggy face framed by grey hair scraped back into a tight bun
7. One looked like Billy Idol, a woman, he realized, two were in tuxedos, there was a woman in evening dress and the transvestite in the spandex tights
8. a vision in her black evening dress, a simple, sexy thing with only a
9. wrinkles in her evening dress
10. Unlocking her door in a hurry, she opened it and found herself facing a mature woman of stunning beauty who was wearing a contemporary evening dress
11. A lot of it,” he replied, spreading out several grainy photos of a white haired woman in an expensive evening dress and wearing pilot’s goggles
12. Millie fidgeted in the slinky, black evening dress and mink coat that Commissioner Stephenson had had fitted her with
13. Below it was two simple wooden chairs, one of which held a Phaeton mark III and the gang's typical black evening dress and gear
14. Intrigued, Alexandre The Elder watched a tall, well dressed young man come out of the newly arrived carriage, followed by a young woman wearing an elegant evening dress
15. breast of his evening dress suit was pinned a recently awarded medal for
16. It was set in a nineteenth century mansion – chandeliers and all – the staff was in evening dress, the customers wore ties and the real clients had money — lots of it
17. She had let her hair down, cascading around her shoulders and had opted for a simple black evening dress with sparkles and black heeled shoes
18. He was in evening dress, and his throat was sore already with the cold that was coming on and that he had caught, as he expected, running races on the Sunday at Priscilla's children's party
19. At ten, I was at his luxury flat by the Nile and was met by the two friends in evening dress
20. Of all the carriages that leave the arch of the Opera House, not one turns eastward, and when the little thief is caught in the empty market-place no one in black- and-white or rose-coloured evening dress blocks the way by pausing with a hand upon the carriage door to help or condemn--though Lady Charles, to do her justice, sighs sadly as she ascends her staircase, takes down Thomas a Kempis, and does not sleep till her mind has lost itself tunnelling into the complexity of things
21. "Me! I could have worn evening dress with anybody, if I'd wanted to!" came the scornful answer
22. They resolved to profit by the count's courtesy, and ordered the horses to be harnessed, while they substituted evening dress for that which they had on, and which was somewhat the worse for the numerous combats they had sustained
23. 'Ere you see Lady Slumrent's pet dogs sittin' up on chairs at their dinner table with white linen napkins tied round their necks, eatin' orf silver plates like human people and being waited on by real live waiters in hevening dress
24. A few young men, wearing bright blue badges in their coats, stood idle in the vestibule; none of them wore evening dress
25. The obsequious waiters were in evening dress, the walls were covered with lofty plate-glass mirrors in carved and gilded frames, and at certain hours of the day and night an orchestra consisting of two violins and a harp discoursed selections of classic music
26. Then he put on this very tight black evening dress
27. ‘At five o’clock, and not evening dress, please,’ he shouted once more, turning at the door
28. had followed the Petersburg fashion for a dinner with ladies and was wearing evening dress and a white tie
29. One sharp, white hook tore through my trousers—for I may mention that I was still in evening dress—and dug a furrow in my knee
30. My father must have been warned by Hayter that there was a guest, for instead of his velvet suit he wore a tail coat; this, with a black waistcoat, very high collar, and very narrow white tie, was his evening dress; he wore it with an air of melancholy as though it were court mourning, which he had assumed in early youth and, finding the style sympathetic, had retained
31. A commissionaire at one side of a dark doorway and a middle-aged man in evening dress on the other side of it, standing with his face to the wall cooling his forehead on the bricks, indicated our destination
32. 'Members?' asked a stout woman, in evening dress
33. At the time, I was an uneasy fifteen-year-old in a corduroy Nehru jacket, while my old feller had undergone a radical transformation from a crooner in evening dress to someone actually sporting the wares of those scented Chelsea emporiums
34. In the foreground four solemn men in dress suits are walking along the sidewalk with a stretcher on which lies a drunken woman in a white evening dress
35. Finally, Danko presented his special VIP invitation to an attractive woman dressed in a black evening dress
36. While Alice was sighing over Grace’s evening dress, he knocked and came inside
37. She was sewing beads back on to the green evening dress
38. In a jumble of Spanish and Curaçao patois, he explained to Florentino Ariza that the man in evening dress was the new plenipotentiary from England, on his way to the capital of the Republic; he reminded him of how that kingdom had provided us with decisive resources in our struggle for independence from Spanish rule, and that as a consequence no sacrifice was too great if it would allow a family of such distinction to feel more at home in our country than in their own
39. The minister from Great Britain had survived the odyssey with exemplary stoicism, shooting with his camera the animals they would not allow him to kill with his rifles, and not a night went by that he was not seen in evening dress in the dining room
40. And since most of the silk available came from underclothing and evening dresses, the quilt was glorious in strips of flesh pink and orchid and pale yellow and cerise
41. In the boat with the gamblers were women in their night-gowns and women in evening dress
42. Many of the passengers were in evening dress when they came aboard our ship, and most of these were in a most bedraggled condition
43. Both were busily occupied : spread out on the table and on their knees was an evening dress of Anna Andreyevna's, expensive but " old," that is, worn three times ; and Anna Andreyevna wanted to alter it
44. " Come here ! " I shouted right across the table to a pla3-er beside whom I had been sitting before, a grey-headed man with a moustache, and a purple face, wearing evening dress, who had been for some hours staking
45. He was in evening dress and white tie
46. In the hall sat richly-dressed ladies in silks and velvets and lace, with false hair and false busts and drawn-in waists, and among them men in uniform and evening dress, and about five persons of the common class, i
47. In the fifth place, I am of opinion that, owing to the exaggerated and erroneous significance attributed by our society to love and to the idealized states that accompany and succeed it, the best energies of our men and women are drawn forth and exhausted during the most promising period of life; those of the men in the work of looking for, choosing, and winning the most desirable objects of love, for which purpose lying and fraud are held to be quite excusable; those of the women and girls in alluring men and decoying them into liaisons or marriage by the most questionable means conceivable, as an instance of which the present fashions in evening dress may be cited
48. The members and guests of the club wandered hither and thither, sat, stood, met, and separated, some in uniform and some in evening dress, and a few here and there with powdered hair and in Russian kaftáns
49. And now he was sitting, in evening dress, in the chamber of a poor plaster sculptor, in the chamber of my father behind a bolted door!
50. Webb had been dining also, and was in evening dress, a messenger having brought his instruments and the virus
