How to Use dressing gown in a Sentence

dressing gown

noun
  • The shirt can be matched with shorts or pants, and there’s a dressing gown as well.
    WSJ, 2 Nov. 2021
  • The bather dons a dressing gown and wanders down to the local bathing deck.
    Health.com, 4 Oct. 2017
  • The pair sent an adorable unicorn dressing gown for Daisy.
    Eric Todisco, PEOPLE.com, 2 Sep. 2020
  • His mother, still in a dressing gown, calls him to breakfast.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 6 Apr. 2022
  • This dressing gown style robe from Paul Stuart is eloquent enough to stand in for a blazer.
    Brad Lanphear, Men's Health, 6 Jan. 2023
  • In another, a woman in her dressing gown wears a gas mask.
    Jacquelyne Germain, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Made of Egyptian cotton and dyed a rich claret color, this dressing gown is perfect for those who want to feel regal.
    Isiah Magsino, Robb Report, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Swinton concurred on the cape-sleeve number, with the brocade suit and the feathered white satin dressing gown coming in close behind.
    Vogue, 7 Sep. 2018
  • Cruella was portrayed as a maximalist who has a bridal-style train on her dressing gown for fun.
    Jeanna Kadlec, Glamour, 25 May 2021
  • Harry recalls his father waking him up in the middle of the night, wearing a white dressing gown, to share the news that would change his life forever.
    Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2023
  • For Suki Waterhouse, old school glamour meant a metallic lurex dressing gown (by Ellery) worn as an evening coat.
    Edward Barsamian, Vogue, 25 Dec. 2017
  • The microfiber lining also means that this robe is built to last, in tandem with the closed seams which provide a polished finish to this unisex dressing gown.
    Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 4 Feb. 2023
  • In the early years, Uncle Sam was depicted as clean-shaven, amiable and even slightly goofy, clad in a stars-and-stripes dressing gown and liberty cap.
    Kim Sajet, Smithsonian, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Inside a fish and chip shop—the set of the new #GucciTailoring campaign—@harrystyles wears a macro gingham sharkskin dressing gown as a coat over a Heritage pinstripe wool suit.
    Sarah Spellings, The Cut, 4 June 2018
  • With a bolt of thunder, Garcia's Johnny Rocco appears at the top of the stairs, cocooned in a red satin dressing gown, the only vibrant hue in an otherwise dingy palette.
    Jordan Riefe, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Nov. 2019
  • Parker’s numerous dressing gowns are spot on, and the clingy gowns worn by Divito and Chapman are comely.
    Joanne Engelhardt, The Mercury News, 12 June 2019
  • Yet another shows a woman in her dressing gown wearing a gas mask and holding a fire extinguisher.
    Town & Country, 15 Nov. 2022
  • In another clip, North flipped her hair about excitedly and was later seen with her mom and Grandma posing in matching dressing gowns.
    Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 18 July 2023
  • The collection was broadly inspired by 18th Century court costumes, seen in soft, dressing gown coats with pretty gathered details, wide panier skirts kept short, and pretty velvet ribbons tied in the hair.
    Colleen Barry, ajc, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The Duke, on the other hand, is louche and unctuous, the human personification of privilege lounging in a fabulous dressing gown.
    Hugh Ryan, Town & Country, 25 May 2022
  • In 2015, Jackson was kicked off Celebrity Big Brother after pulling open another contestant's dressing gown.
    Aurelie Corinthios, Peoplemag, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Loro Piana’s Petite Amal dressing gown, in seasonally appropriate lilac-purple linen, works well for working from home or breakfast in bed.
    Lizzy Wholley, WSJ, 3 May 2022
  • But who foresaw that the biggest hit in digital museum programming would be an on-the-fly lecture series on Flemish and Italian painting, with the chief curator of the Frick Collection sipping on bourbon and wearing a dressing gown?
    New York Times, 21 May 2021
  • Gimmo Etro started making fabrics in 1968 after his grandmother’s dressing gown sparked a lifelong fascination with paisley, the Persian botanical motif and colonial European style staple.
    Alexandra Marshall, WSJ, 15 Aug. 2017

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'dressing gown.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: