Sentence examples for formal evening from inspiring English sources

Now it's a formal evening, preceded by cocktails and followed by Champagne and dessert.

Now it's a formal evening, with cocktails beforehand and Champagne and dessert afterward.

The audience, she recalls, seemed like a colony of penguins, because everyone wore formal evening attire.

Lazar opened it to find Mary McFadden — often his date in New York (a kind of reverse-role "walker") when Mary Lazar was absent — standing in the hallway in all her pleated finery, evidently under the impression that this was to be a formal evening, or possibly a masked ball.

Lazar opened it to find Mary McFadden often his date in New York (a kind of reverse-role "walker") when Mary Lazar was absent standing in the hallway in all her pleated finery, evidently under the impression that this was to be a formal evening, or possibly a masked ball.

The first of the festival's formal evening concerts, for instance, tonight at the Lincoln Theater on the University of Hartford campus, was pretty arid.

It was a formal afternoon garden party that would morph into an evening of drinking and dancing.

Formal afternoon tea, after tour of house museum.

Yes, cruise passengers of 2004, let's remember that there was a time when every night was formal night.

In attendance upon Mayor Hylan were members of his cabinet, including Commissioner Enright, who wore formal morning garb.

The elegant Grand America Hotel (555 South Main Street; 800-621-4505; grandamerica.com) lives up to its name with a formal afternoon tea, green tea spa treatments and 775 palatial rooms with Italian marble bathrooms.