Sentence examples for be in a formal from inspiring English sources

"It doesn't have to be in a formal setting.

I've also said that I think it would be unlikely that we would be in a formal coalition with Labour.

Also clothing – if you are wearing sports clothing you are not judged like you would perhaps be in a formal setting.

A maximum of two people can be the owners of a Scrapbook, and those people have to be in a formal relationship on Facebook (expect "domestic partnerships" for friends who co-own a pet).

Germany would not be in a formal state of war with Italy until August 1916.

"It wouldn't be proper for me to be in a formal uniform, in my mind anyway, until the proper documentation and paperwork," she said.

The Turkish state was, in a formal sense, Islamic.

He was, apparently, who we thought he was, in a formal sense, and yet nine Americans are dead.

"It is immaterial whether we are in a formal recession," said Douglas J. Holtz-Eakin, chief economic adviser to John McCain, a leading Republican contender.

So did my best friend from school, now living in Ohio, who was in a formal hand-woven Thai silk dress.

With Abbott as newly installed opposition leader, the conservative Liberal party and National party (who are in a formal Coalition) voted with the Greens political party to block the emissions trading bill.