black tiein a sentence
black tie as in: black-tie event
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That evening there was a black-tie dinner. (source)black-tie = an event to which men should wear a tuxedo
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'Russell Pickett, the billionaire chairman and founder of Pickett Engineering, shocked the black-tie audience at last night's Indianapolis Prize by announcing that his entire estate would be left to his pet tuatara.† (source)
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FIVE OR SIX DAYS later, I still had not fully recovered from my evening with Boris—partly because I was busy with clients, auctions to go to, estates to look at, and partly because I had grueling events with Kitsey nearly every night: holiday parties, black-tie dinner, Pelleas et Melisande at the Met, up by six every morning and bed well after midnight, one evening out until two a.m., scarcely a moment to myself and (even worse) scarcely a moment alone with her, which normally would have driven me crazy but in the circumstances kept me so submerged and embattled with fatigue that I didn't have much time to think.† (source)
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When work was completed in 1970, he gave a black-tie Christmas party and invited the cream of Savannah society.† (source)
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That same night I was invited to a lavish black-tie party in honor of the beautiful and glamorous Isabella Rossellini, daughter of Ingrid Bergman.† (source)
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But this was a formal, black-tie wedding: Tuxedos and gowns were required for guests, not just the wedding party.† (source)
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He wore an elegant black suit and black tie, and his demeanor was irresistibly cheerful, which put my grandfather at ease.† (source)
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More than a thousand people gathered for a black-tie party at a tent set up in the parking lot.† (source)
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"You thought that would be a black tie occasion, did you?" he teased, touching the lapel of his tuxedo jacket.† (source)
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He went back to selling antiques, and with the court's permission he traveled to New York to attend a black-tie party for the Cooper-Hewitt Museum's exhibition of Queen Elizabeth's collection of Faberge.† (source)
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He chuckled again as he held out a cloak for her and a pair of ugly black tie shoes.† (source)
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Both are black-tie.† (source)
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He had a little black tie on.† (source)
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Engraved invitations to Jim Williams's black-tie Christmas party began arriving in the mailboxes of Savannah's better homes the first week in December.† (source)
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In his liver-colored uniform, black tie, and polished shoes he looked inevitably miscast in life, a man uncomfortable with the accoutrements of his profession, as if he had dressed for a costume party and now wandered about in the disguise.† (source)
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It was delivered to us by a tall, slim man with impeccable slicked-back hair and a white coat with black tie.† (source)
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He was a short, stocky man in a black suit, black tie, white shirt, and a gold watch-chain that glinted in the light from the frosted windows.
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black tie = a tie that is black
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