How to Use finery in a Sentence

finery

noun

• She was proud to show off her new evening finery.
• The congregation, in hats and finery, make room for me on their pews.
  — Catherine Fairweather, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Mar. 2024
• The black and white snap captured the couple on their April 2011 wedding day in their wedding finery.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 16 June 2024
• The stars showed out in all their finery at this year's Met Gala.
  — Jane Onyanga-Omara, USA TODAY, 7 May 2024
• Harlem Toile, in all its wit and finery, helps to fill in the visual gaps.
  — New York Times, 25 Mar. 2022
• The Juicy Crab is an event that comes with the finery of plastic bibs and shiny buckets.
  — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 4 Nov. 2021
• Five days, no fineries, all of us mucking in for five days.
  — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 28 Dec. 2023
• A young couple beside us, dressed in the bright finery of the 1920s, could have passed for Vladimir Mayakovsky and Lilya Brik.
  — Alex Halberstadt, Town & Country, 9 Oct. 2015
• As for the color palette, the finery dons the house hues of navy, light blue, green, burgundy, and white.
  — Felicity Carter, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2021
• On the day of the wedding, wearing her finery, the princess climbed into a skiff that ferried her out to the ship.
  — National Geographic, 6 Aug. 2019
• See our gallery of stars in all their finery at the 95th Academy Awards.
  — Jane Onyanga-Omara, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2023
• Bring your pets dressed in their Halloween finery and join the parade.
  — courant.com, 11 Oct. 2019
• Their wares ranged from tools to weapons to figurines and other fineries.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2023
• While the stars step out in their finery, the photographers at the Oscars have to put on a show too.
  — Marie Lodi, CNN, 9 Mar. 2024
• Fifty-game finery: With Wednesday’s win, the Spurs improved to 32-18.
  — Tom Orsborn, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Jan. 2018
• And as fate often has it, even for those not dressed in their Western finery, all roads led to the Standard.
  — Vogue, 28 Oct. 2019
• This is not groovy indie finery; there’s a rock-as-high-art vision at work here.
  — Evan Haga, SPIN, 24 May 2024
• Rabbit meatballs rock — and reveal a chef with a sense of fun amid finery.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2019
• The foster children had arrived at Ruth’s Chris Steak House dressed in their best frills and finery.
  — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Dec. 2021
• The photo, which Laub shot in 1999, shows the four seniors dressed in finery, in the process of emerging from what appears to be a limousine.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2021
• Some of the finery Ashley viewed on the runway has carried its way into her wardrobe.
  — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 14 Dec. 2021
• The price for all of this aeromotive finery is $10.9 million.
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 5 Nov. 2020
• Trees and shrubs in all their brilliant fall finery are an amazing sight to behold.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Oct. 2021
• The Holy City decks out in holiday finery, full of garland, bows, and palms strung with twinkling lights.
  — Avery Newmark, ajc, 17 Nov. 2021
• Just about every one of the 25-or-so houses will be gussied-up in their holiday finery.
  — Chris Kaltenbach, baltimoresun.com, 27 Nov. 2019
• Every spring, black graduates walk down grassy knolls draped in the finery.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 9 June 2020
• No wonder those kids, in their ragtag finery, adored him.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 16 Sep. 2022
• Berber tribes, whether sedentary or nomadic, are renowned for their finery.
  — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 30 Mar. 2015
• The nine of us arrived with our hair blown out or slicked down, shirts tucked in and stomachs sucked in, in our most flattering finery.
  — Vanessa Hua, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Jan. 2018
• Guests entered and walked Mar-a-Lago’s red carpet in their finery.
  — Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 28 Oct 2024