Sentence Examples

1. Especially when the damned image of him in gladiator finery popped up.
2. The town was decked out in all its finery promoting the fair.
3. Most of these were simply too pompous for the practical Leondis however, he enjoyed seeing them traipse through the marshes in their finery and attempt to act as though they enjoyed these outings.
4. Their evening finery glowed below the blaze of globed streetlights, painting the cobblestones outside yellow with reflected radiance.
5. His chest was bare, though the angelic wings wrapped round him made him appear draped in soft finery.
6. Minute inspection was required of the observer to see the finery of the cloth, the expense of tailoring, the high quality of the few jewels and the arrogance of manner only then would he concede that this was a man of some significance.
7. The wedding was very much like other weddings, where the parties have no taste for finery or parade and Mrs.
8. For, after having been accustomed several months to the sight and converse of this people, and observed every object upon which I cast my eyes to be of proportionable magnitude, the horror I had at first conceived from their bulk and aspect was so far worn off that if I had then beheld a company of English lords and ladies in their finery and birthday clothes, acting their several parts in the most courtly manner of strutting, and bowing, and prating, to say the truth, I should have been strongly tempted to laugh as much at them as the king and his grandees did at me.
9. A bride, you know, must appear like a bride, but my natural taste is all for simplicity a simple style of dress is so infinitely preferable to finery.
10. The peasant folk, who are naturally malicious, and when they have nothing to do can be malice itself, remarked all this, and took note of his finery and jewellery, piece by piece, and discovered that he had three suits of different colours, with garters and stockings to match but he made so many arrangements and combinations out of them, that if they had not counted them, anyone would have sworn that he had made a display of more than ten suits of clothes and twenty plumes.