Sentence examples for formal affairs from inspiring English sources

Officers attend formal affairs in kimonos.

Others will be larger, more formal affairs, held in a gymnasium or a ballroom.

The affair apparently threw cold water on formal affairs at the villa for some time.

Shows that I went to before this were stiff and formal affairs.

Such gigs can also carry minor humiliations that may not be so common at larger, more formal affairs.

While I was outgoing, my sociability was confined to university campuses, their constituents and their formal affairs.

But the new festival is a more formal affair.

A job interview, for a military veteran, tends to be a formal affair.

The Daschle event, a pancake breakfast, was a more formal affair.

Dinner in the darkened, candlelit dining room is a more formal affair than at Bayaleau.

Dinner is a formal affair of stiff white table linen and hushed conversation.