toggle menu
menu
vocabulary
1000+ books

attire
in a sentence

show 189 more with this conextual meaning
  • She was wearing a dress that reminded me of the West African-inspired kente cloth attire I had seen in the States, but hers was an intricately meshed pattern of black and white, the traditional Xhosa colors.†   (source)
  • Several NPCs milled around, all dressed in mid-1980s attire.†   (source)
  • I would pat my pants and say aloud, "THIS IS GOD'S ATTIRE!"†   (source)
  • They had clothes and blankets and pillows from the upstairs rooms and they fitted themselves out in new attire, the boy's trousers cut to length with his knife.†   (source)
  • The place was crowded with young men in casual but, for the most part, conservative attire.†   (source)
  • And, let me see, another twenty for your Muggle attire.†   (source)
  • He liked the more formal attire of men in Krakow and gradually purchased several elegant suits.†   (source)
  • She slept for an hour, until a servant announced the arrival of the tailor, to outfit her with proper court attire.†   (source)
  • After we had put on the new attire, we formed a horizontal line with legs apart and hands straight down at our sides.†   (source)
  • The dummy, however, was not newly attired.†   (source)
  • Not knowing what to expect he had donned his usual classroom attire-a pair of chinos, a turtleneck, and a Harris tweed suit jacket.†   (source)
  • The average teenager was willing to wear very uncomfortable attire.†   (source)
  • Who was this strangely attired man with knives and oversized corkscrews jutting out of his backpack and rotary blades on his wrists?†   (source)
  • Oddly enough, it's this moment I realize that despite her husky voice and Parisian attire, she's sort of …. plain.†   (source)
  • Just look at your attire—you reek of street trash.†   (source)
  • Delicate in stature, she was as meticulous about her attire as she was about her studies.†   (source)
  • "Be quiet," Mommy said, inspecting my first-day-of-school attire.†   (source)
  • They dress up every different way in the world: some have long shirts made from the same flowery African cloth that is attired by the women.†   (source)
  • The Kamens were impeccable in their classy outfits and stood out amid the crowd of casually attired customers.†   (source)
  • Nothing good could come of our formal attire, of that I was sure.†   (source)
  • Attired in full dress blues, my new Purple Heart pinned on my chest, close to my Trident, I walked into the Oval Office.†   (source)
  • The others were in their cholo attire.†   (source)
  • I walked past the community hall, where a roomful of seniors were listening to a string quartet of high school students in formal attire; past the multipurpose room with its computers and bookshelves and domino sets, past the bulletin board and its array of tips and announcements—Did you know that soy can reduce your bad cholesterol?†   (source)
  • I hope you do not think me unduly vain with regard to this last matter; it is just that one never knows when one might be obliged to give out that one is from Darlington Hall, and it is important that one be attired at such times in a manner worthy of one's position.†   (source)
  • He changed out of his hiking attire and put on the clothes that he had come in, freshly laundered and neatly folded.†   (source)
  • I take these questions across the hotel lobby to a nattily attired and neatly groomed Dr. Alex Kopelowicz, director of the San Fernando Valley Mental Health Clinic and a professor at UCLA.†   (source)
  • Her stylish attire did not seem appropriate for a venerable grandmother, but it suited her figure--long-boned and still slender and erect, her resilient hands without a single age spot, her steel-blue hair bobbed on a slant at her cheek.†   (source)
  • So Thor allows himself to be attired in bridal costume, with Loki as his bridesmaid.†   (source)
  • In the stairwell he turned to her and said, "Listen, would you like to have a coffee," and after a brief pause added, to make it seem less forward, given her conservative attire, "in the cafeteria?"†   (source)
  • "If you hadn't been so frank with us, Pumpkin," Mameha said, "we might have thought this was your usual attire."†   (source)
  • And she understood she had much bigger problems than skimpy attire.†   (source)
  • He looked a little thinner, too, and was much more formally attired.†   (source)
  • He was ashamed of his attire, worn boots and torn blue jeans (blue jeans were invented considerably before most people suppose), and his hands were tight together in almost a gesture of supplication.†   (source)
  • Together, they soon had Nasuada properly attired.†   (source)
  • Nancy wore her dress of cherry-red velvet, her brother a bright plaid shirt; the parents were more sedately attired, Mr. Clutter in navy-blue flannel, his wife in navy-blue crepe; and-and it was this, especially, that lent the scene an awful aura-the head of each was completely encased in cotton, a swollen cocoon twice the size of an ordinary blown-up balloon, and the cotton, because it had been sprayed with a glossy substance, twinkled like Christmas-tree snow.†   (source)
  • Moody, attired in a dark blue pinstripe suit, was impatient to leave.†   (source)
  • He looks down at his attire and chuckles.†   (source)
  • I told him that he had no jurisdiction over the attire I chose to wear in court and if he tried to confiscate my kaross I would take the matter all the way to the Supreme Court.†   (source)
  • Yes, this will look lovely with my formal attire.†   (source)
  • And of course she was pretty, despite the bad haircut and plain-Jane attire.†   (source)
  • Both were wearing what could only be described as hunting attire, head-to-toe camouflage.†   (source)
  • It was characteristic of the mountain girl, and of her people, that she had not on first meeting stared, village fashion, at his brave attire; and she seemed now concerned only with the man himself.†   (source)
  • It was "the body of a young man partially clad in common workingmen's attire.†   (source)
  • I realized that my attire made it glaringly obvious that I was new I looked down at my little canvas slippers and shivered in my brown coat.†   (source)
  • Stephens remembered seeing jockeys in full road-work attire gathering at a bowling alley, so lathered that sweat spouted from their shoes with each step.†   (source)
  • The family of four arrived at Janice and Larry's home on Christmas Eve, Adam decked out in his finest attire: tight black pants and an even tighter white V-neck polyester sweater covering a black dickey.†   (source)
  • People just shouldn't wear beach attire in public.†   (source)
  • …seemed to the gunslinger that, if he closed his eyes he would be able to hear the croaking of the first spring peepers, smell the green and almost-summer smell of the court lawns after their first cutting (and hear, perhaps, the indolent click of croquet balls as the ladies of the East Wing, attired only in their shifts as dusk glimmered toward dark, played at Points), could almost see Aileen as she came through the break in the hedges-It was not like him to think so much of the past.†   (source)
  • I won't see anyone except my family and a therapist, so I'm leaving my Hollywood Boulevard attire at Margot's, which means my feet will be happy for a couple days at least.†   (source)
  • For in becoming immortal they want all the forms of their life to be fined as they are and incorruptible: carriages made in the same dependable fashion, clothing of the cut which suited their prime, men attired and speaking in the manner they have always understood and valued.†   (source)
  • The young girl entered the room with blazing cheeks and blackened nails; she had been outside helping the gardener plant dahlia bulbs, and just this once her clairvoyant faculties had failed her, leaving her unprepared to meet her visitor in more suitable attire.†   (source)
  • The chaplain recognized the bathrobe and pajamas as official hospital attire.†   (source)
  • She is well attired.†   (source)
  • Perfect boating attire.†   (source)
  • Holiday attire, whatever that meant.†   (source)
  • They were dressed in the same baseball attire, and all were bigger than Ricardo and his friends.†   (source)
  • She gestured to chairs near her own, and two elegantly attired and bejeweled Radchaai rose to make way for us, no complaint or expression of resentment apparent.†   (source)
  • With a heavy sigh, Mavis dropped her slinkily attired nighty-eight pounds onto the sofa where she could eye Eve's simple gray suit with disdain.†   (source)
  • From the rue d'Alésia, apartment dwellers had gathered at both corners, many in hastily pulled-on street attire-trousers and undershirts-while others were in night clothes-frayed bathrobes and worn slippers.†   (source)
  • In his opinion, Somalia was a much better place for that sort of attire.†   (source)
  • In June at the public supper of the royal family, le grand couvert,Adams was turned out again in attire "becoming the station I held, but not to be compared with the gold and diamonds and embroidery about me."†   (source)
  • I looked at Elinor when she was attired in her miner's kit and wondered again about the strange turns this year was bringing us to.†   (source)
  • Because most contemporary male movie stars and directors indulged in a perpetually adolescent lifestyle, blue jeans were acceptable attire even at many tony establishments in Los Angeles.†   (source)
  • We were all dressed in jeans and button-up collared shirts, our normal travel attire.†   (source)
  • Ramsay Bolton was attired as befit the lord of the Horn-wood and heir to the Dreadfort.†   (source)
  • Following behind are the RESIDENT and his partner similarly attired.†   (source)
  • Our friends were attired even as we are,' said Aragorn; 'and you passed us by under the full light of day.†   (source)
  • Despite his kingly attire, Prusias exuded the air of a tribal chieftain rather than that of refined royalty.†   (source)
  • DRESS CODE/REGULATIONS FOR SCHOOL ATTIRE†   (source)
  • And I notice, too, the spareness of the rooms aside from the major furnishings, the few photographs showing him among groups of five or six in business attire or settings, and none including anyone who looks like him, distantly or otherwise.†   (source)
  • She was attired in black, and a heavy veil obscured her face.†   (source)
  • A few dozen men and women whisked by in various directions, equally split between those in Western business attire and local garb.†   (source)
  • The figure to his right was identically attired, as was the one to his left.†   (source)
  • His clothes—those of a sophisticated city-dweller—contrast sharply with the attire of the townspeople.†   (source)
  • If you wish to try me at arms, I find myself suitably attired.†   (source)
  • Look! he'd said, and hunkered in solemn attire to lift his son, like any God or farmer, and pointed.†   (source)
  • de Breze, who was all astonishment at finding that this young man had the audacity to enter before the king in such attire.   (source)
  • If you can wash your hands and change your attire, you may join me at my humble abode.†   (source)
  • Sofia hugged Marina and then skipped into the hall with her newly attired companion.†   (source)
  • I melded among the protesters, dressed in street attire and my favorite blue Pendleton shirt.†   (source)
  • She was wearing evening attire: a gunmetal blue dress that looked like it was spray-painted on.†   (source)
  • Despite the man's garish attire, Langdon could tell the pilot meant business.†   (source)
  • In our finest cholo attire, we drank, laughed, and challenged.†   (source)
  • "Her attire is not what concerns me," the camerlegno replied, sounding too exhausted to be bothered.†   (source)
  • It was a painting of a young man and woman in ancient Greek attire, both brandishing swords.†   (source)
  • They are more appropriate for a funeral than your own attire.†   (source)
  • And like having the right snacks, for a true adventure, the proper attire is everything.†   (source)
  • The more careless he became in his attire and appearance, the more meticulous she became in hers.†   (source)
  • It would have been a bit too much of an embarrassment to parade him over in inmate's attire.†   (source)
  • I had almost forgotten about my orange attire, but now I felt a little self-conscious.†   (source)
  • Since they had last seen him, Jefferson had become noticeably more elegant in attire.†   (source)
  • He was wearing a blue blazer and a pair of wrinkled chinos, a spymaster's Saturday-morning attire.†   (source)
  • Stuart Hutchison, thirty-four, attired in a Ren and Stimpy T-shirt, was a cerebral, somewhat wonkish Canadian cardiologist on leave from a research fellowship.†   (source)
  • Langdon glanced down at his attire.†   (source)
  • She looked up, and on the porch of Calpurnia's little house stood Negroes in various states of public attire: a couple of women wore their best, one had on a calico apron, one was dressed in her field clothes.†   (source)
  • Although it was not customary for invitations to request special attire, least of all for a luncheon in the country, the women wore evening gowns and precious jewels and most of the men were dressed in dinner jackets with black ties, and some even wore frock coats.†   (source)
  • Loki returns to Asgard, so the myth goes, and tells Freyja to put on her wedding attire for she is (alas!†   (source)
  • He was wearing his usual charcoal turtleneck, Harris Tweed jacket, khakis, and collegiate cordovan loafers …. his standard attire for the classroom, lecture circuit, author photos, and social events.†   (source)
  • Germaine was a little too small for the clothes, although they were the nicest clothes Germaine had ever owned and she wore them both happily and reverentially—Germaine never realized that my grandmother resented seeing her in such painfully familiar attire.†   (source)
  • But then around her she saw all these people of all these different colors in all these different attires and she was relieved, better here than there she thought, and it occurred to her that she had been stifled in the place of her birth for virtually her entire life, that its time for her had passed, and a new time was here, and, fraught or not, she relished this like the wind in her face on a hot day when she rode her motorcycle and lifted the visor of her helmet and embraced the…†   (source)
  • On the other hand, it seemed strange to her that Florentino Ariza would persist in his mystic attire and his rare lotions, and that he would continue to be so enigmatic after making his way in life in so spectacular and honorable a manner.†   (source)
  • But in the context of the Western press, it struck the Secretary of Secretaries that this simple attire might suggest to the world that after eighteen years of Communism, Russian girls still lived like peasants.†   (source)
  • My clothes all came from Gravesend, but Grandmother took Owen shopping in Boston; it was his first time on a train, and—since they were both smokers—they rode in the smoking coach together and shared their nearly constant (and critical) comments on the attire of their fellow passengers on the Boston & Maine, and on the comparative courtesy (or lack thereof) of the conductors.†   (source)
  • Once suitably attired, he opened the door to find an industrious young fellow standing in the hall with the Count's daily breakfast—a pot of coffee, two biscuits, and a piece of fruit (today a plum).†   (source)
  • At Garvey, the dudes began to sport cholo attire: the baggy starched pants and suspenders over white T-shirts, the flannel shirts clipped only from the top button, the bandannas and small brim hats.†   (source)
  • I finally settled on some classic '80s-era attire: a light gray suit, exactly like the one Peter Weller wore in Buckaroo Banzai, complete with a red bow tie, along with a pair of vintage white Adidas high-tops.†   (source)
  • As a typical Joseph, I was attired in a dull brown robe, the biblical equivalent of a three-piece suit.†   (source)
  • Despite my attire, which I realize you find troublesome, I am a senior level physicist at the world's most advanced subatomic research facility.†   (source)
  • The only area in which he persisted in defying time and fashion was in his somber attire, his anachronistic frock coats, his unique hat, the poet's string ties from his mother's notions shop, his sinister umbrella.†   (source)
  • At 6:45 on the eleventh of June, Count Alexander Rostov stood in suite 417 dressed in the white jacket of the Boyarsky, ensuring that the place settings were properly arranged and his men properly attired before opening the doors for the 1954 combined dinner of the Presidium and the Council of Ministers.†   (source)
  • The woman's attire is my fault.†   (source)
  • He took pleasure in keeping by his right hand the Duke of Marlborough, his great teacher in the art of war, whose attire of skins and tiger claws aroused the respect of adults and the awe of children.†   (source)
  • He took the calf-length ivory trench coat I'd worn to disguise the fact that I was wearing Alice's idea of appropriate attire, and gasped quietly at my oyster satin cocktail dress.†   (source)
  • Added to their attire were two proper attache cases strapped with diplomatique tape, indicating government documents beyond the scrutiny of immigration points.†   (source)
  • She put all her quick, young mind and avid soul into the struggle to receive, though piercingly aware every instant of the difference between her attire and that of the women who had bidden her there, noting acutely variations between their language and hers, their voices, their gestures and hers.†   (source)
  • The only thing that had changed was the Demon's attire, for instead of luminous white, he now wore robes that were of such unyielding black that they seemed woven of the void.†   (source)
  • But would you say that, sir, even in the light of General Peckem's recent memorandum on the subject of appropriate military attire in combat areas?†   (source)
  • His choice of attire was no accident.†   (source)
  • Alan told him he was just looking around, to plan his regimen, he said earnestly, and so was allowed to walk in wearing his business attire.†   (source)
  • At first Nasuada assumed he was dark-skinned, like herself, and wearing dark attire, but as he drew closer, she saw that the elf wore only a loincloth and a braided fabric belt with a small pouch attached.†   (source)
  • I imagined them with the gang from floor nineteen, preparing their weapons and suiting up in wedding attire for a daring raid that would save our butts.†   (source)
  • Beautiful Moon's body had been completely shrouded in muslin, then attired in the clothes for her journey to the afterworld.†   (source)
  • Prowling around the Tijuana jockeys' room in reassuringly medical-looking Dr. Kildare attire, Frenchy was the self-appointed mad scientist of the racing world.†   (source)
  • The hangman, an anonymous, leathery gentleman who had been imported from Missouri for the event, for which he was paid six hundred dollars, was attired in an aged double-breasted pinstriped suit overly commodious for the narrow figure inside it-the coat came nearly to his knees; and on his head he wore a cowboy hat which, when first bought, had perhaps been bright green, but was now a weathered, sweat-stained oddity.†   (source)
  • The commander admired my new attire.†   (source)
  • I checked my attire.†   (source)
  • Sensible stakeout attire and grooming.†   (source)
  • Four days later, the vessel deposited them in the farthest province of the North, where their elegant travel attire and crocodile bags went unnoticed in the dry, suffocating heat of the siesta.†   (source)
  • Milo was dressed in his customary business attire — olive-drab trousers, a fresh olive-drab shirt and tie, with one silver first lieutenant's bar gleaming on the collar, and a regulation dress cap with a stiff leather bill.†   (source)
  • Hvedra was attired even more richly, with strips of embroidered cloth upon her sumptuous dress, strands of pearls and twisted gold around her neck, and in her hair, an ivory comb set with an emerald as large as Eragon's thumb.†   (source)
  • Nabby's attire, too, was in white, only with a petticoat, "the most showy part," and included a cap with three immense feathers.†   (source)
  • We entered a house full of uncovered "women attired in bright festive garb crimson party dresses with plunging necklines, sequined, strapless gowns, and skin-tight pants suits.†   (source)
  • He waited outside the building, trying not to attract notice, for almost two hours, until the King emerged with his men and a contingent of Chinese men in business attire.†   (source)
  • He had upgraded his usual attire for the occasion, exchanging his denim and leather for a trim gray suit and white shirt.†   (source)
  • A few minutes after Seabiscuit lost, the Howards reeled out of Santa Anita, changed into formal attire, raised their chins once again, and walked into the Santa Anita Turf Club Ball, held in honor of Stagehand's victory.†   (source)
  • First they unloaded about a dozen prisoners from the plane, men in a variety of shapes, sizes, colors, and attires.†   (source)
  • His holiday attire included a red bow tie, black satin dinner jacket, and some modification of Scottish kilts.†   (source)
  • He wore strict mourning attire for the rest of his life, even long after it had gone out of fashion and no one used it except the poor, who wore a black band around their sleeves.†   (source)
  • The loose-fitting hospital attire concealed a body that was slender and taut, with narrow hips and the lightly muscled thighs and calves of a long-distance runner.†   (source)
  • The next day, Jean went to the bank to cash a check from his father-in-law and spent nearly the whole day going from one store to another buying the attire he considered appropriate to his new economic position.†   (source)
  • He was attired in the manner of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi—a black jumpsuit, white trainers, a black keffiyeh tied tightly to his large head.†   (source)
  • As usual he was impeccably attired, but the man opposite looked as though he had borrowed clothing for the occasion.†   (source)
  • He picked up the second photo, the one where the woman was piously attired, and stared into the bottomless eyes.†   (source)
  • They hurried inside, as if trying to escape a sudden deluge, and found the president and the first lady, both formally attired, waiting in the Entrance Hall.†   (source)
  • Frodo and Sam, however, went back to ordinary attire, except that when there was need they both wore long grey cloaks, finely woven and clasped at the throat with beautiful brooches; and Mr. Frodo wore always a white jewel on a chain that he often would finger.†   (source)
  • Although she only came from downstairs, she was formally attired in street clothes.†   (source)
  • Thus attired, he descended gingerly to the platform and began to pace its length.†   (source)
  • She hated him, sitting there in his dandified attire, taunting her.†   (source)
  • "Bring him in," she said shortly, embarrassed at her attire, infuriated at Gerald for putting her in a position where this man could laugh at her.†   (source)
  • From the costly simplicity of her attire, I deduced at once that she belonged to the upper strata of society.†   (source)
  • Two women in ceremonial attire, but without belts and wearing linen hoods, a man without hood or belt, and a girl not as yet adult are in attendance.†   (source)
  • No, Pa, I'm no tattletale like Suellen," she assured him, standing off to view his rearranged attire with a judicious air.†   (source)
  • Useless for the patriotic Mrs. Merriwether to upbraid her daughter and point out that homespun was the proper bridal attire for a Confederate bride.†   (source)
  • In this male attire her mirror showed her a jaunty, handsome rider.†   (source)
  • And her fingers grew so numb that she made what she considered a disgraceful matter of her attire.†   (source)
  • He was small and wiry, slouchy of attire, and armed to the teeth, and he bestrode a fine bay horse.†   (source)
  • A long black scarf accentuated her gaudy attire.†   (source)
  • At every station there were groups of people, sometimes crowds, and in all sorts of attire.†   (source)
  • Attired in tatters and grime, she went unseen.†   (source)
  • The door was opened and he entered, just as Arabella came downstairs in radiant walking attire.†   (source)
  • Thus attired I went down to help entertain the company.†   (source)
  • Whilst he gave these curt and concise orders, he had completed his change of attire.†   (source)
  • Upon sight of Joan in her changed attire he gave a slight start.†   (source)
  • Marian was even stouter and redder in the face than formerly, and decidedly shabbier in attire.†   (source)
  • She returned attired in less gown, and sang again.†   (source)
  • Her great natural beauty was, if not heightened, rendered more obvious by her attire.†   (source)
  • She divulged the fact that she was attired in some half dozen skirts.†   (source)
  • FAUST This life of earth, whatever my attire, Would pain me in its wonted fashion.†   (source)
  • A man in strange attire appeared at the door.†   (source)
  • 'I was then a scholar in the Gates of Learning, and attired as a Sahib.†   (source)
  • The old orchard wore its holiday attire.†   (source)
  • Perhaps; but in that attire it was not apparent.†   (source)
  • His language and attire bespoke him a Roman.†   (source)
  • Light and youthful colours predominated in Pyotr Petrovitch's attire.†   (source)
  • His almost squalid attire was not perceptible in the obscurity caused by the shade.†   (source)
  • But if it affords you satisfaction to gaze at Therese in the attire of Eve….†   (source)
  • The less pretension there is in your attire, the better will be the effect, as you are a rich man.†   (source)
  • 'Here he is,' said I, 'and not in his legal attire!'†   (source)
  • A mild-looking, cleanly-attired young woman opened the door.†   (source)
  • His plan is, to walk out once a week during church time attended by Charlotte in respectable attire.†   (source)
  • Dolly was wanting to go to bed when Anna came in to see her, attired for the night.†   (source)
  • The sisters were both attired in spotless white.†   (source)
  • He saw they were of all ages, sexes, and conditions, and all in holiday attire.†   (source)
  • M. Gillenormand's attire was not the habit of Louis XIV. nor yet that of Louis XVI.†   (source)
  • An hour after they stepped into their calash, both dressed in feminine attire.†   (source)
  • He had never seen her before in such attire.†   (source)
  • The little Tirzah, in her home attire, stupefied with fear, went passively with her keepers.†   (source)
  • Vampa in this attire resembled a painting by Leopold Robert, or Schnetz.†   (source)
  • And yet as he dressed he examined his attire more carefully than usual.†   (source)
▲ show less (of above)