How to Use negligee in a Sentence

negligee

noun

• For that one night, Goldie Hawn—in a negligee—was the coolest mom in Hollywood.
  — Hilary Weaver, Vanities, 13 Oct. 2017
• Sandra Bush, who died in 2012, wore a red negligee with a deep open neck and a wide black belt.
  — New York Times, 13 Oct. 2021
• Her eyes seem to have lost their vigour, her complexion is now a dirty negligee pink satin.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 14 Aug. 2018
• Her closed eyes and negligee-like garment lend her the air of a somnambulist.
  — Robert Greskovic, WSJ, 18 Sep. 2017
• How about photographing her and Eva in their negligees, lounging on beds?
  — Martha Weinman Lear, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2017
• Lions, female sphinxes, deer and other symbols of the house are printed on long negligee-style dress in pink-beige and black crêpe.
  — Cécilia Pelloux, Forbes, 7 May 2021
• Well in Texas, that flimsy negligee of a justification didn't stay on long.
  — Victoria Defrancesco Soto, NBC News, 30 May 2017
• Esther, who can’t read but can sew like a virtuoso, supports herself by making negligees and corsets for women across the social strata.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2019
• Sobchak famously answered the door for the police wearing a negligee, and the agents confiscated roughly $1.5 million in cash, in dollars and euros, from her safe.
  — Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2022
• The full video dropped at midnight, and features Madonna dragging on what appears to be a cigar (or might something stronger), sporting platinum blond hair and wearing some fetching negligee.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 7 May 2021
• The pop star posted three photos and a selfie video of the graphic getup on Monday (Nov. 1), wearing a hot-pink-and-black negligee with fuzzy leopard-print handcuffs and fake blood covering her face and hands.
  — Katie Atkinson, Billboard, 1 Nov. 2021
• The only non-weirdo is Eurydice, who throws temper tantrums in her nighties and negligees, properly enraged by her mistreatment by men and gods.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2019
• The show opens with a series of hazy black-and-white photographs from 1969 that capture the artist’s reclusive mother in a frothy negligee, moving about a dim, somewhat bedraggled bedroom, curling her hair, putting on makeup, posing before a mirror.
  — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2016
• Drake herself appears, wearing a pink negligee and an eagle-head mask, a Halloween leftover that could be playful but here, amid other bits of strangeness, suggests some sort of ritual gathering.
  — Vince Aletti, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2022
• When Rihanna attended a Paris Dior show in nothing but a black mesh negligee, proudly showing off her baby bump, legions of fans (and the audience in attendance) did not clutch their pearls but applauded.
  — Christina Binkley, Town & Country, 23 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024