Sentence examples for formally dressed from inspiring English sources

This was where it became clear that the SHE awards would be unburdened by antiquated formalities like "seat fillers," those formally dressed nonentities paid by the Emmys and the Oscars to occupy empty seats lest the audience look sparse.

Who are these formally dressed men and women?

McKellen arrived formally dressed, in a gray suit with a flowered blue shirt and black shoes.

He had a three-piece suit; not many showed up so formally dressed.

Large portraits of formally dressed people from previous centuries frowned from above the unlit fireplace.

Rather, a sensitive remodeling of Juilliard, Pietro Belluschi's 1968 Brutalist composition formally dressed in travertine.

Yet on the day, he was avuncular, polite and solicitous, if somewhat awkward, formally dressed in coat and tie.

On the night the wedding was to take place, the formally dressed and stunned guests gathered for the reception.

Servers are formally dressed, and their attitude is perhaps slightly stiff, but they are certainly efficient enough.

On his death, his formally dressed corpse was left to be discovered by authorities, ready for burial.

Behind him stand a few traffic police and a contingent of semi-formally dressed taxi drivers donning sunglasses and gesticulating to the police.