Sentence examples for rather than dressing from inspiring English sources

As with charts, rather than dressing up our data we should be stripping it down.

All too often he seemed to be decorating a room rather than dressing a woman.

Let's see them celebrated as athletes, rather than dressing them up in evening gowns".

More structural engineering than cosmetic surgery, it's been a case of changing the dynamics of the space, rather than dressing it up in new clothes.

NEW ENGLAND is famous for its seafood, but rather than dressing up and dining in formal, upscale fish restaurants, most New Englanders prefer to roll up their sleeves and dine "in the rough".

Rather than dressing a designated fighter or an energizing presence as the 18th skater, are teams instead carrying a good shootout player in case the game ends in a tie and goes to a postgame penalty-shot contest that awards the winner an additional point in the standings?

Japan, which considers a salaryman suit as good as any national costume, is urging leaders to dress smartly, rather than dress up.

Ladies are effusive about the "coziness" of luncheons in casual clothes at home rather than dressed up in elegant French restaurants.

I have taken to making a potful every few days and keeping them in a covered bowl in the fridge, moistened rather than dressed with olive oil.

Similarly, he adds, if your mother had a minor cut, he would not "let her bleed to death rather than dress it".

Most of the outfits had plastic sequined flowers quivering from what seemed like every high-heeled shoe, hip, hat, dress and earlobe, looking as if they chafed, rather than dressed, the models as they walked the runway.