How to Use fancy dress in a Sentence

fancy dress

noun

• Everyone wore fancy dress for the ball.
• But, a quince isn’t just about the flashy party, the decadent cakes and fancy dress.
  — Thalia Juarez, Washington Post, 15 June 2019
• Of course, some people never gave up on fancy dress in the first place.
  — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 23 Nov. 2020
• The day of the event, which this year is May 5, is a festive party of large hats, fancy dress, mint juleps, and auctions.
  — Michael Walsh, Courant Community, 1 May 2018
• Then again, maybe the key to saving his future is standing right next to him in a very fancy dress...?
  — Andrea Park, Marie Claire, 12 Jan. 2021
• His funeral will call for fancy dress, and the men will have to dress like women and the women will have to dress like men.
  — Taffy Brodesser-Akner, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2017
• But make no mistake – the fancy dress and formal tableware does not mean the tents aren’t festive.
  — USA TODAY, 10 July 2023
• Ishmat thinks Fred wants a fancy dress but Fred longs to wear a powder-blue tuxedo.
  — Amy Amatangelo, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2021
• What’s better than a red carpet moment in a fancy dress?
  — Meagan Fredette, Teen Vogue, 22 May 2019
• That means fancy dresses, limos, corsages, and all-night dance parties with your best friends.
  — Teen Vogue, 9 May 2018
• Then suddenly, what was naked became fancy dress in Cannes, in 1998.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2021
• This is before Victorian times with tons of black crepe and fancy dress.
  — Kevin Dayhoff, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 16 Oct. 2021
• In the United Kingdom, fancy dress means wearing a costume.
  — CNN, 28 July 2019
• The HerDress experience is more than posing for the camera in a fancy dress.
  — Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 5 Jan. 2022
• The caftans gave way to fancier dresses, like a stunning embroidered moire gown in a peacock hue.
  — Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2019
• His pictures of words go from logotypes dressed in native garb to free spirits in fancy dress to teams in uniform.
  — Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 2 Nov. 2023
• Florence Pugh as Amy Amy is often seen as the bratty sister who likes wearing the fancy dresses and gobbling up all the sweets.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 29 Oct. 2019
• Is this a normal way for younger brothers to react to seeing their sisters in fancy dresses and a lot of makeup?
  — Morgan Baila, refinery29.com, 22 June 2018
• Speaking of movies with royalty and fancy dresses, here’s the trailer for a film that looks very weird in a very different way.
  — Jacob Kastrenakes, The Verge, 8 Sep. 2018
• Girls with long hair and fancy dresses, their arms draped around one another’s shoulders, smiling wide.
  — New York Times, 21 May 2020
• Cora asks to relieve herself and makes a joke about ruining the fancy dress, a middle finger to Ridgeway.
  — Steffan Triplett, Vulture, 16 May 2021
• McCarthy brings most of the comedy in royal fashion, donning a fancy dress, pearls and a fascinator at one point and toasting her friend with a cup of tea.
  — Christie D’zurilla Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2021
• All of the swells of Vienna are gathered for an intoxicating evening of fancy dress, fizzy wine and graceful waltzing.
  — Kyle Smith, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2023
• Her grandmother used to make fancy dresses and clothing, her grandpa did sketches,and her mother is a quilter.
  — Karen Pilarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Nov. 2019
• Ishikawa is often seen photographed wearing fancy dresses and flowing skirts paired with sneakers—a way to rebel against society’s rules.
  — Vivian Rachelle, Quartz, 29 Aug. 2019
• All this means that the demand for bunting, tablecloths, fancy dress and food will create a peak opportunity for the nation’s retailers.
  — Kate Hardcastle, Forbes, 26 May 2022
• But make no mistake – the fancy dress and formal tableware does not mean the tents aren’t festive in the 10-acre plot in the middle of campus that is a flurry of activity on football Saturdays.
  — Erick Smith, USA TODAY, 29 Aug. 2023
• When 8 year-old Daisy Mason vanishes from her posh parents' fancy dress party in Oxford, no one notices.
  — Laura Demarco, cleveland.com, 20 Mar. 2018
• Whether styled over your favourite fancy dress, or worn extra-long and solo, this is a sweater that’s going interesting places, but also works brilliantly for that WFH life.
  — Truc Nguyen, refinery29.com, 24 Aug. 2020
• To give his men something to look forward to, and a connection to the outside world, celebrations like Christmas were marked with exuberant parties and fancy dress.
  — Alex Lazarow, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024