How to Use full dress in a Sentence

full dress

noun

• The officers were in full dress.
• The Army required full dress be worn to the event.
• In a full dress rehearsal the day before, the flares worn by sky divers singed the field.
  — Kevin Draper, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2020
• Above my head, full dress-grey overcast lifts to blues and Bob Ross happy clouds.
  — Matt Farwell, The New Republic, 30 Dec. 2019
• The full dress code policy was sent to parents about three months ago.
  — Megan Friedman, Seventeen, 9 May 2016
• Two older women in full dress and makeup gaze back at Maier’s lens.
  — Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 22 Aug. 2019
• Another chic way to bring some snakeskin into your style game is a full dress or skirt.
  — Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 Jan. 2019
• But Mbatha reveled watching the full dress ensemble on the screen.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2021
• It’s all built on a soft sub roll with a full dress of lettuce, tomatoes, onions, vinegar, oil and brown mustard to keep things from getting too stiff and formal.
  — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Aug. 2022
• Standing in the main area of the narcotics division, where McCarthy worked, was a female sergeant in full dress uniform with blonde hair and green eyes — just like her own.
  — Kc Baker, PEOPLE.com, 11 Sep. 2020
• Nearby were Star Wars characters in full dress for photos.
  — Linda Gandee/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland, 21 Oct. 2019
• The only full dress rehearsal of the 2020 census, unfolding this month in Providence County, R.I., has been scaled back in some areas.
  — Michael Wines and Emily Baumgaertner, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2018
• The honor guard fires the three-shot rifle volley salute, fold and present the flag, and play Taps, the only local Honor Guard that conducts the ceremony in full dress military uniforms.
  — Sharon Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 25 May 2020
• The native of Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, was invited to an Olympic youth camp in Beijing, which included a chance to see the opening ceremony in a full dress rehearsal.
  — James T. Areddy, WSJ, 5 Feb. 2022
• After the defense dominated Auburn's first spring scrimmage, how the offense responds today will be worth noting in the last full dress rehearsal before A-Day.
  — Tom Green, AL.com, 31 Mar. 2018
• With Republican Guards standing motionless in full dress uniforms, the squad quickly broke into party mode for the official photos.
  — Elaine Ganley, The Seattle Times, 17 July 2018
• There are also far better ways to honor American troops than by forcing them to wear a full dress uniform in the Washington humidity and 90-degree heat on a federal holiday.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 4 July 2019
• Active-duty service members routinely wear their full dress uniforms to testify on Capitol Hill.
  — Alex Horton, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Nov. 2019

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024