How To Use Well-dressed In A Sentence
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Draperies combined with window shades, valances and ornamentation such as trims can produce an exceptionally well-dressed window.
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Every well-dressed man should have some stylish knitwear in his wardrobe.
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We were sitting in the midst of an elegant and well-dressed audience.
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As the story goes, nationally televised images of well-dressed children marching into jail, and of protesters being blasted with hoses and attacked by German shepherds, at a time when the United States was engaged in a competition with Communism for the hearts and minds of dark-skinned people in the Third World, made segregation a contradiction that had to be eliminated.
A Renegade History of the United States
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A group of well-dressed men and women - the men in three-cornered hats, the women in long dresses - are promenading conspicuously beside the river.
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The Bush campaign shipped in several busloads of well-dressed preppies to cause a scene outside the Board of Elections and succeeded in stopping the recount.
How Revolting
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The well-dressed, well-heeled crowd sites like Gilt City have had premium seats for $5,500; on Craigslist, tickets are going for $350 and up stayed standing for much of the show, a rarity for a place that rose to fame housing the New York Philharmonic.
Sheila Marikar: Jay-Z Rocks Carnegie Hall, Does First Live Performance of 'Glory'
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Being a well-dressed man is a career[sentence dictionary], and he who goes in for it has no time for anything else.
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A well-dressed man was busily taking photographs and making notes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pietro appeared as a distinguished old man, thin, and well-dressed, even in temperament.
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I remember sitting in a different café, interviewing the head of an anticorruption organization, who said, We are in a war; yet here we are, in the heart of Beirut, in a café packed with people, all very well-dressed.
Day of Honey
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He woke with his head clanging like an anvil, riding through a town where well-dressed inhabitants stared at him as he passed.
IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
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A well-dressed man virtually fed the victim to the mob, then escaped, and Marquez wonders if the supposed assassin was really an innocent patsy.
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However, the clean-shaven, well-dressed, spectacled man has an authoritative air which commanded respect.
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They went into the lobby where the doorman, inordinately well-dressed to be pushing buzzers, gave I0C a sharp blast.
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The reefer was a well-dressed boy, evidently a gentleman's son; but the lieutenant was one of those old weather-beaten sea-dogs, who are seldom employed in boats, unless something more than common is to be done.
Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore"
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In France, the Lumiere Brothers captured scenes of steam-driven trains and well-dressed boulevard pedestrians.
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But no sooner did he declare himself in form, than the gaudy wretch, as he was before with her, became a well-dressed gentleman; — the chattering magpie (for he talks and laughs much), quite conversable, and has something agreeable to say upon every subject.
Pamela
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He was a tall, well-dressed African.
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Besides the amusing circus and aquatic performances, visitors can have their pictures taken with a well-dressed bear or a large, semi-comatose tiger.
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One could not walk the sidewalks casually; one pushed one's way, or sidewinded, through throngs of well-dressed gentlemen and ladies and loud-mouthed costumed rowdies.
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As subsequent events make clear, a well-dressed gentlewoman, walking the winter roads of outer London, is a sight that sticks in observers' minds.
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One of the first well-publicised examples occurred in 2006 when pictures of a well-dressed woman killing a kitten with her stiletto heel were posted on the internet.
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Through the iron bars of a big window we can see well-dressed Cubans dancing on the sidewalk.
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Typical of such cases is that of a well-dressed man in his 70s found outside a local hospital.
Times, Sunday Times
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An elderly, well-dressed lady spoke in sharp tones to the pair, both of whom looked towards me and became silent.
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Instead, she found herself surrounded by well-dressed, accomplished individuals offering English hellos, hot coffee and fresh pastries.
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They were both well-dressed, had silver tsamba basins, silver mounted knives, etc., and were on very familiar terms with each other; while Moggie, as the men called the nun, coquettishly resented the teasing she received from one of those who had accompanied me.
With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
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After the stranger had gone she went to the cockloft to look for her well-dressed favourites, but they had disappeared, and they were never seen afterwards, for they were turned into fairies.
Welsh Fairy-Tales and Other Stories
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Some civil servants are Daoshi work well, get the taxpayer to the high salaries come out well-dressed people die like a dog, work to play the game, the work is really TMD decent, comfortable.
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We were sitting in the midst of an elegant and well-dressed audience.
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In Grafton Street there was a plethora of well-dressed women.
THE IMAGE OF LAURA
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The story: A talented but homeless dancer living in a packing crate is lifted up to high social status by a well-dressed woman but in a tragic twist she turns out to be easy to tip over, and he must give up dancing for very careful, slow paced walking.
'Dancing with the Stars': Story telling night
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Aspirations to elegance, with well-dressed tables and crystal chandeliers, are instantly destroyed if the carpet screams at the guests.
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Instead of people with unkempt hair and raggedy clothes, there were well-dressed servants and slaves, and an occasional noble riding by.
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But then his trousers were always rolled up at the knee, for the convenience of wading on the slightest notice; and his virtue, supposing it to exist, was undeniably virtue in rags, which, on the authority even of bilious philosophers, who think all well-dressed merit overpaid, is notoriously likely to remain unrecognized (perhaps because it is seen so seldom).
VI. The Aunts and Uncles Are Coming. Book I—Boy and Girl
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Being a well-dressed man is a career, and he who goes in for it has no time for anything else.
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They don't even try to fit in with the younger, more exuberant and well-dressed crowd.
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He glanced about him at the well-bred, well-dressed men and women, and breathed into his lungs the atmosphere of culture and refinement, and at the same moment the ghost of his early youth, in stiff-rim and square-cut, with swagger and toughness, stalked across the room.
Chapter 27
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The music Hot 8 performed that day hearkened back to the social aid and pleasure clubs, said Pete, where a well-dressed band led a parade down the street, forming the “first line,” while onlookers joined them to form the “second line” with strutting, jumping and high-stepping underneath their decorated parasols as they blew whistles and waved feathered fans.
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He's still the most well-dressed man.
Times, Sunday Times
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My older brother and I were watching TV special and there featured a young, articulate, well-dressed black man who seemed, even to my preadolescent mind, poised, confident, and brimming with potential.
Claunick Duronville: Why I Chose Morehouse College
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Although the largest single group is made of grizzled white men, there was a black father with two happy young kids, some twenty-something Spanish student-types and well-dressed working people.
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Another featured well-dressed young Syrians dancing in a nightclub.
Times, Sunday Times
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If a well-dressed black man approaching makes you nervous, then maybe the label fits, but a gang of teenagers is almost always bad news no matter what shade their skin.
Racist, Sexist, and Homophobic
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A group of well-dressed men and women - the men in three-cornered hats, the women in long dresses - are promenading conspicuously beside the river.
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Suddenly, the drunken man gets up and starts shedding his clothes to reveal a well-dressed, handsome gentleman.
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Inside those grotty beer-stained sweatpants is a smart, funny, well-dressed man waiting to emerge.
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Within the semicircle were a number of Arabs of high and low degree, a few of them well-dressed and armed to the teeth, others dirty and shabby; but all intent on business.
The Three Commanders
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Being a well-dressed man is a career, and he who goes in for it has no time for anything else.
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An aging, well-dressed don masked in dark glasses sits before a Tiepolo-like fresco of some celestial investiture involving putto and sword.
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In a manner, the dandy was the male counterpart of the professional beauty: he had no other occupation than to devote himself to being clever, witty, well-dressed and amusing.
The Dandy | Edwardian Promenade
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A man who looked like a well-dressed version of Mario of the Super Mario Brothers, and with a price tag labeller in his holster, crouched down, frantically rearranging the cabbages.
Marc Philippe Eskenazi: High-Rise Panic in a Hurricane Supermarket
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There, in that venerable West Village venue, paired with Dennis Boutsikaris, her co-star from the short lived production of Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs, she plays Juliana Smithton, a well-dressed scientist addressing a meeting of doctors in St. Thomas on the subject of pharmaceuticals who loses composure distracted by a girl in a yellow string bikini, a possible vision caused by a brain tumor.
Regina Weinreich: The Other Place May Be Right Here
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He glanced about him at the well-bred, well-dressed men and women, and breathed into his lungs the atmosphere of culture and refinement, and at the same moment the ghost of his early youth, in stiff-rim and square-cut, with swagger and toughness, stalked across the room.
Chapter 27
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Several well-dressed older women shot them disdainful looks before looking away, noses upturned.
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So composite and incongruous is this body of Nile-goers, young and old, well-dressed and ill-dressed, learned and unlearned, that the new-comer's first impulse is to inquire from what motives so many persons of dissimilar tastes and training can be led to embark upon an expedition which is, to say the least of it, very tedious, very costly, and of an altogether exceptional interest.
A Thousand Miles Up the Nile
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Invariably they are well-dressed, intelligent and from outwardly stable and normal households.
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He was always well-dressed and had this presence about him.
Sir Alf: A Major Reappraisal of the Life and Times of England's Greatest Football Manager
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I must own myself astonished to see that well-dressed young fellow in a full-bottomed wig, appearing in the middle of the sea, and without any visible concern taking snuff.
The Scandal of the Season
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She had looked so exceptionally well-dressed the previous evening he had supposed that what she called ruin was comparative affluence, for Bruce had not yet learned that clothes are unsafe standards by which to judge the resources of city folks, just as on the plains and in the mountains faded overalls and a ragged shirt are equally untrustworthy guides to a man's financial rating.
The Man from the Bitter Roots
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It had bright dazzling lights and well-dressed window displays that were always stocked full of fascinating and unusual merchandise.
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Being a well-dressed man is a career, and he who goes in for it has no time for anything else.
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Aspirations to elegance, with well-dressed tables and crystal chandeliers, are instantly destroyed if the carpet screams at the guests.
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The Tibetans gathered about him and one of them, well-dressed in pulu, having in his hand a prayer-wheel, profusely invited him to enter the tent to drink tea, the others seconding the invitation.
With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
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Being a well-dressed man is a career, and he who goes in for it has no time for anything else.
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Typical of such cases is that of a well-dressed man in his 70s found outside a local hospital.
Times, Sunday Times
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The well-dressed, often besuited, men and women were about as far from the stereotypical notion of a pro-marijuana activist as you could imagine.
Prop 19: The marijuana campaign that's dividing California
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At the back of the church, people stepped over a well-dressed young man who seemed unconscious.
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That the men are well-dressed gentlemen is not lost on Mary, who witnesses the abduction.
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She was vivacious, bubbly and always well-dressed.
The Sun
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He is well-dressed, superficially well-mannered, but reminds me of a flirtatious married host at a barbecue.
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He still continues to make style statements with his ensemble and not for nothing is he called the well-dressed man of Telugu tinsel ville.
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Typical of such cases is that of a well-dressed man in his 70s found outside a local hospital.
Times, Sunday Times
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In fact, he is a nice-looking, well-dressed, articulate English professor.
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Many of these young tigers are well-dressed and oblivious, yapping away into their mobile phones.
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Usually they are simply a piece of baguette topped with a disc of chèvre, grilled until it is tinged with golden brown and the cheese begins to run, then placed on a well-dressed salad.
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Now, Glasgow's newest five-star hotel which was the headquarters for the Royal Scottish Automobile Club in 1910 and a starting point for the 1955 Monte Carlo Rally is as prim and well-dressed as it gets, though the hotel's designers donned a discreet red-shaded light into each front window, a cheeky nod to the square's colourful past.
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She had almost stumbled over a man's body, lying prone, half in the driveway, half on the close-clipped grass on the side; a well-dressed man, tall, thin, his limbs sprawled about broken-jointedly.
The Bent Twig
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Quite recently ten well-dressed men were fined two dollars each for spitting in one of the subway stations.
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He was a tall, well-dressed African.
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It was Ladies' Hour, and there were well-dressed women around me, some English and some Indian - overseeing their children as they disported in the pool.
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Being a well-dressed man is a career, and he who goes in for it has no time for anything else.
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Seeing these well-dressed people, all wearing city shoes (going barefoot is forbidden) how can we remember the killers with the lunatic gaze, drunk with beer, with pot and with hate, adorned with amulets, brandishing shotguns and long machettes and were hounding, like you hound animals, their Tutsi neighbors that were forced to hide in the double ceilings, in the ditches and in the hedgerows?
Global Voices in English » Rwanda: Fifteen years after the genocide
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Each of the mallams was attended by a well-dressed little boy of agreeable countenance, who acted as page to his master, and was his protégé.
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There is a crowded, Hooray Henry exuberance to the room, with pink-cheeked gents swilling dry Martinis and families with gaggles of well-dressed, extraordinarily blonde children.
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I see a well-dressed man standing and staring at us, nodding as he screams at me.
Times, Sunday Times
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A beautiful, well-dressed woman in her fifties came to the microphone and began to share her story.
Christianity Today
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Bertha Richardson spoke for her fellow feminist reformers when she reported that after seeing well-dressed working girls, “you went home thoughtful about those girls who wasted their hard-earned money on cheap imitation, who dressed beyond their station, and you failed to see what enjoyment they got out of it.”
A Renegade History of the United States
