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    Use "gown" in a sentence

    gown example sentences

    gown


    gowned


    gowns


    1. the most fabulous red velvet ball gown, suffused with diamonds and adorning her


    2. ’ Liz said, appearing in her dressing gown


    3. He takes off his specs and carefully cleans the lenses on his dressing gown


    4. the same, disgustingly stained gown throughout her long and decrepit life, this


    5. The bedroom door bursts open and, by the light spilling in from the sitting room, Stephen rushes in, his hair all awry, wearing his dressing gown


    6. Sitting in the kitchen in my dressing gown, I munch on a slice of toast and try to decide what to wear


    7. Unlike her mother, a poor and feeble creature tied to the old days, a woman who shimmered like a pallid ghost among the ruins of their estates in the mountains, a woman who wore the same, disgustingly stained gown throughout her long and decrepit life, this Countess had broken with those dusty traditions


    8. Says he, strident in his red gown,


    9. Once the pattern of snoring and grinding teeth settled down in the next room, Kirk slipped out of the bed he shared with his little sister, pulled on a threadbare dressing gown two sizes too small for his arms, and crept downstairs


    10. The photographer did at least have the dignity to let her change out of her dressing gown and slippers, but everything was still rushed and she looked as if she’d just gone three full minutes with a welterweight boxer

    11. The gown tumbled to the ground leaving her completely exposed, utterly physical and utterly vulnerable, if only for a second


    12. She threw open the curtains, letting the room flood with glorious summer sunshine, and as she stood there, silhouetted in her curlers and her power-shouldered dressing gown, she started to sing


    13. The seamstress and tailor were astonished at the simplicity of the gown and asked if they might use her design as they were sure that after her court appearance they would be inundated with requests for gowns of a similar design


    14. She seemed to glide across the room beside him in a gown that all the females were staring at with envious eyes


    15. Naria went over her gown and cloak with her eyes


    16. have the dignity to let her change out of her dressing gown and


    17. Clothed in my dressing gown with a towel round my head, I stand at the fridge contemplating food


    18. I pick up my dressing gown from the chair by the window and struggle into it, I’m shivering with cold … probably because I’ve not eaten … firmly tying the belt, I wobble through the hallway into the kitchen and, leaning against the work surface, I contemplate my options


    19. shouldered dressing gown, she started to sing


    20. ‘I think you’ll find everything you need in there …’ he said, reaching for his dressing gown and waving a hand in the vague direction of the shower room

    21. half finished patio in her dressing gown, madly sniffing the air and


    22. I remember it as clearly now as if it were yesterday … we’d got back to my place after the gig – a black tie dinner for the local Masonic lodge – and collapsed on the sofa in the lounge: me, in my strapless scarlet ball gown and Alastair in his DJ


    23. Sitting over a pot of coffee in my dressing gown I ponder the day


    24. Sally, wearing her dressing gown, is slowly making her way down the stairs


    25. Slipping into her own gown, she hunted desperately, for something to set off the plunging neckline, of pearls and brocade


    26. " He answered lifting her gown to listen to her chest


    27. He didn't even have a shirt to cover his burning chest and the PJ bottoms he’d put on before leaving the bedroom, offered little more in warmth then her own worn excuse for a night gown


    28. out of her graduation cap, her gown sparking in the sun light


    29. One of the agents returned with a black gown in hand


    30. She listened carefully to Aladdin, and went to get dressed in her most beautiful gown

    31. "Give your evidence" said the magistrate smoothing his gown as Jason climbed into a weather-beaten witness box


    32. Somewhere away down south in the great hall of the Senate a saucepan bearing a Chief Justice Ministers wig and gown, rattled impatiently on one of the large leather chairs A janitor passed by and picked it up


    33. ‘This will do to boil me eggs in,' he thought, 'but better leave the wig and gown on the seat, the minister must have had a reason for leaving it'


    34. she emerged an hour later wearing a silvery gown that Nausicaa had left for her


    35. A flowing emerald colored gown, which fell off the shoulders in layers of a darker green


    36. I knew very little of him outside of what I garnered from our following nighttime rendezvouses but was aware that some scandal swirled around him and that a few considered him to be a Clown in a Gown


    37. She looked absolutely stunning in a long, cream gown made from sheer silky material that tightly hugged her like a glove, accentuating every curve of her body


    38. The gown came down so low that the dimples on her lower back were visible


    39. pent soul, she could almost see the lines glowing red on the fabric of her gown


    40. After what seemed an eternity Helez appeared, dressed in a lovely, very conservative, purple gown

    41. To wear a cap and gown in your dream indicates that you are transitioning into a higher level in your life


    42. Every night I would crawl out of that pesky bed, dressed in a patient's gown and an IV plugged into my arm, and sit outside the hospital, on a bench, under skies just like these


    43. There she was to be bathed, massaged with perfumed oil and dressed in her bridal gown


    44. The gown fitted a little more tightly than the garments she normally wore


    45. It was like going to the Whitehouse in a hospital gown


    46. Can you tell me?” Her needle went in and out of the tiny gown she was making


    47. ” she shuddered and pulled the dressing gown tighter again


    48. Jane still had her hair wrapped in a towel, and the large dressing gown she had been wearing when Chris left her pod was lying open beneath her


    49. dressing gown, had her legs twisted round by the side of her chair so her feet could soak up the


    50. “My uniform was cut off at the aid station Sir and ever since I have been dressed in pyjamas and a dressing gown I was given short notice about coming home and these odds and sods you see me in mow Sir were all the nurses on the hospital ship could find me














































    1. “Before she was gowned in her petals of white,


    2. Just then a superbly gowned woman alighted from a cab


    3. The true fanatics: the true Hebrews, the Black capped, black gowned, evil, hairy, ugly filth; with their ugly snarled hair, their ugly rotting dead hair, growing and growing out of their faces…longer and longer and longer… signifying the growing rotting evil of their diseased obsolete evil sick ancient culture: these Hasidic filth can only endure their own sick evil culture by shutting themselves OFF from the rest of the living world… and living in a self-imposed exile of ghetto-existence


    4. Had kind fate but willed her to be born a gentlewoman of high degree in her own right and had she only received the benefit of a good education Gerty MacDowell might easily have held her own beside any lady in the land and have seen herself exquisitely gowned with jewels on her brow and patrician suitors at her feet vying with one another to pay their devoirs to her


    5. Gardner was tall and thin and handsome, exquisitely gowned, cordial with a cordiality that seemed a trifle forced


    6. She and Gilbert had once picturedout merrily the day on which they should be capped and gowned graduates in Arts


    7. Notice that beautifully gowned, superbly handsome brunette who is getting out of a hansom at Martin’s Restaurant


    8. She was gowned in blue velvet, and her russet hair, drawn high in a net—a fashion in favor in France—was shaded by a blue velvet hat, over which drooped heavy white plumes


    1. He informed Rayne that all women wore long gowns when attending the court; to do otherwise would be considered an insult


    2. The seamstress and tailor were astonished at the simplicity of the gown and asked if they might use her design as they were sure that after her court appearance they would be inundated with requests for gowns of a similar design


    3. A neatly hand painted sign outside a farm entrance proudly boasts that you can hire ball gowns and hats as well as buy the obligatory free range eggs


    4. ” He handed his daughter to Jameson, “You know, when we were children, after her mother died she walled herself in behind courtesy and elegant gowns, her house duties and her father's factory


    5. ” I picked up a large parcel that held the baby"s swaddling clothes, as well as gowns and other necessities


    6. She smiled as she remembered the gowns Rex showed her


    7. Josie and I went to a room where we were giving blue gowns, booties and caps and were told to scrub our hands and arms before we entered the theatre


    8. It hung halfway down my calves, the fabric soft and thick, nothing like the flimsy, stiff hospital gowns I was used to


    9. It was one of those dressing gowns that provided comfort as well as safety


    10. Most of her time though she spent knitting clothes for her unborn child: winter clothes and baby gowns, blankets as well as a lenarion for Amonas

    11. Everyone at the dance was dressed to impress and Bob was probably wearing a dowdy hospital gown; the gowns that make your butt cheeks hang out all over the place


    12. I wore long evening gowns, Nic wore a good suit


    13. Most of this time, he was in isolation, with access restricted to hospital staff wearing surgical gowns that could be disposed of as they left the room


    14. Just then I heard the bathroom room open and saw Lea wrapped in one of the hotel dressing gowns with wet hair


    15. I have found it necessary to ban the following items: golden hairpins, laced shoes, fur collars, silver-buckled belts, long trains, jewelled rings, gowns cut low in front, many-coloured vestments, Nuns adorning themselves as if they were brides, many-coloured ribbons


    16. gowns with wide, low-slung necklines and gathered sleeves caught my eye


    17. At the Grand Opening, an endless stream of the social elite arrived in tuxes and formal gowns


    18. draped figure on the bed in one of her long gowns, her auburn-gold


    19. Alwyn's costumes were ‘medieval’ doublet and hose, wimples and flowing gowns and cloaks because, he insisted contemptuously, there was nothing either magical or poetic about the modern world


    20. Arianas has some gowns made up for his patients

    21. The attendees were gorgeous, all of them dressed in elegant gowns and tuxedos worth more


    22. were walking around in the most beautiful and handsome robes and gowns


    23. She decreed an end to the numerous superimposed periods of mourning and she herself ex-changed her rigorous old gowns for youthful clothing


    24. The staff evidently didn’t expect subjects to wake and be in need of anything other than underwear and hospital gowns


    25. What she first thought were a pile of gowns on the floor, she now recognized as a woman sprawled on her stomach


    26. Searching through the debris, Nancy found a number of folded prisoners’ gowns in the remains of a closet and gave one to Tatiana


    27. the common guests, they were both slightly surprised to find most of the women in formal gowns accompanied by men wearing either formal suits or tuxedos; obviously, many of these were members of the Charleston Symphony, and those not accounted for by the orchestra were evidently not from the hotel register but rather from the local social elite


    28. With her makeup a clever combination of grey and hunter green to complement her simple riding clothes that she had chosen since her gowns would be too ostentatious for mourning, Lady Jane stood attentively at his side as she stared straight ahead and seemed acutely annoyed by the proceedings, though she maintained her formal, proper grace and viewed the proceedings with the proper expressions of bereavement over the death of someone she had apparently not even known


    29. When he had the door opened all of the way, he turned on the lights, seeing rows of stainless steel shelves full of gowns and bed linens


    30. Despite the fact that Jeanne seemed more than satisfied by his acquisitions, Pierre promised himself to one day bring her to Pointe-à-Pitre, the main port of the Guadeloupe and a place where he knew that he would find some gowns worthy of an aristocrat girl

    31. elasticated bridal gowns of course


    32. translates as serpents—not angels with white wings and snowy gowns


    33. There was dancing along the riverfront, bright gowns, dark hair woven with blossoms, and Andrei with his merry brown eyes; and somewhere a voice sang low and loose:


    34. The two concerned and angry fathers, in their gowns and slippers, confer over the fence


    35. Then she saw what he had in his hands: the cords from their dressing gowns


    36. women in green gowns turned their heads toward him, their faces filled with


    37. “I don’t know if I’d mind staying,” says Beatrice as the retinue of elves in glowing gowns draws to a halt in front of them


    38. than a couple of inadequate men to tie me up in bodices, petticoats, and gowns


    39. dressed in fashionable gowns, wigs, panniers, and coats


    40. She had thought that a couple of her best gowns had become a bit yellowed from age and

    41. jewelry, shoes, gowns, and a velvet shawl that Windsor had given to her two Christmases before


    42. Joel and Kathy’s wedding was a high coup for the designer, not only because she’d been chosen to create the gowns for the entire bridal party, but because she’d also been commissioned to make the dresses and outfits worn by the bride and groom’s mothers and numerous other family members and friends attending the wedding


    43. So with the help of this fashion designer, Mary Meadows went wild with the wedding preparations, which is how Kathy and her friends found themselves outfitted in long gowns with wide bell-like hoops


    44. As her friends gathered around her, in their beautiful gowns, Kathy smiled happily and serenely


    45. He left the room, adjuring they quickly touch up their make-up and gowns, and meet him in the chapel in less than five minute, so he could take all the formal wedding photos of the bridal party which needed to be done at the church


    46. Both wore dark gowns trimmed with white fur and had leather bags with books


    47. “I have a book with wedding gowns downstairs; do you want


    48. gowns), which was not the case this evening – in fact, the dresses


    49. Black gowns and bareness may be enough for those whose piety is so exalted that ceremonies are only a hindrance to the purity of their devotions; but the ignorant and the dull, if they are to be stirred, and especially the women who have entered upon that long series of gray years that begins, for those worked gaunt and shapeless in the fields, somewhere about twenty-five and never leaves off again, if they are to be helped to be less forlorn need many ceremonies, many symbols, much show, and mystery, and awfulness


    50. They were dressed in festive ball gowns, bedecked with gold and silver, diamonds, pearls, rubies, emeralds, and sapphires










































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    Synonyms for "gown"

    gown robe scrubs surgical gown night-robe nightdress nightgown nightie costume skirt dress shift

    "gown" definitions

    a woman's dress, usually with a close-fitting bodice and a long flared skirt, often worn on formal occasions


    the members of a university as distinguished from the other residents of the town in which the university is located


    lingerie consisting of a loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women


    protective garment worn by surgeons during operations


    outerwear consisting of a long flowing garment used for official or ceremonial occasions


    dress in a gown