Sentence examples for Costume from inspiring English sources

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Costume

verb

To dress or adorn with a costume or appropriate garb.

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Why? Have you ever thought about playing in costume dramas?

"The chicken costume is a mainstay," tweeted Bertram.

When I wasn't worrying about how to stop the water breaching my bodily barriers, I was fretting about catching pond life in the miniature drag net that is a swimming costume on an ample bosom.

Thursday night's Banished and Sunday night's Poldark are actively rewriting the visual grammar of the costume drama as we know it.

It was a costume, a pose, a magic ticket to get him through the door.

The actress had just done a quick change in the wings from one outfit to another, and the hanger had attached itself as she brushed past it on the costume rail.

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They married in 1983, had a daughter, Bessie, a decade later – and in 2007, all three starred in an episode of BBC costume drama Cranford.

Izzy went online to check for herself, and was delighted to find that it wasn't only the description of the Darth Vader costume that had been changed – the wording on everything from costumes to toys, Disney Princess tutus to Hulk outfits was now labelled "for kids", instead of being divided by gender.

The Daily Mirror organised a man in a chicken costume to demonstrate against Cameron's cowardice.

Her eyes "filled with tears and she said 'I can't have it, it says they're only for boys.'" But Izzy decided not to take it lying down and, following a quick chat with her mother about gender stereotypes, she wrote to Disney to explain her sadness about how the costume was labelled.

He slept outside in his costume for the first few days of the LOTR shoot.

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