Sentence examples for donned from inspiring English sources

'donned' is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it to refer to the act of putting on clothes or other items of attire. For example, "She donned her winter coat before heading into the cold."

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donned

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Past of don

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I donned a thin grey cashmere poloneck, a pair of blue skinny jeans and some discreet flats.

Since then, he's donned a fair bit of knightly armour, and found his cavalry racing over the hills.

When he lost what little remained of his money at the gaming tables during a masquerade, he and apothecary William Plunket donned Venetian masks and held up a farmer on Hampstead Heath.

Not since Ned Kelly donned his iron bucket and tear-arsed around the bush was there somebody so aesthetically captivating.

Ever since Sarah Bernhardt brought her limp to the first appearance of Elizabeth on screen in 1912, on a leg that would later be amputated, every film about Elizabeth has based its publicity campaign on the premise that an actor has suffered a deep degradation of the body (Flora Robson donned a fake nose, Bette Davis shaved her head).

So Chris Robshaw and co donned dinner jackets and headed to a spot near St Peter's Square to watch the game on TV – as Ireland won 22-20 in Paris.

Batsmen who donned them were sometimes mocked as cowards.Helmets have improved markedly since then.

But then Mr Mellor was a Chelsea regular, who, according to the tabloids, had donned the team's strip when in bed with his mistress.Perhaps Mrs Clinton simply chose the wrong team.

Later, when he donned a kaross, a traditional Xhosa leopard-skin cloak, to appear in court, he knew it would "emphasise the symbolism that I was a black African walking into a white man's court".

Environmentalists donned sea-turtle outfits.

It has underpinned its friendships with other regimes excoriated in the West: pre-division Sudan, for example, or Myanmar's junta before it donned civilian clothing and gave charm a chance.

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