Sentence examples for work dress from inspiring English sources

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"The work dress code gets a little more casual in the summer, and people go on vacation.

She'll pay "up to $100 for a going-out kind of dress, and about the same for a work dress," she said, but only if the items are on sale.

As a brass band played a mournful "St James Infirmary" and then an ecstatic "Down by the Riverside", I noticed a greying, middle-aged man in work dress weeping by the river.

The luminous Ms. McNenny's knobby bare feet may peek out from beneath her cotton work dress and her face may be smudged with dirt, but she is hard put to persuade us to accept her character's self-description of an "ugly overgrown lump of a woman".

A writer in the Ladies Home Journall depicted this progress, maintaining that "a work dress for the housewife must first be comfortable, second, easy to get into, and there is no reason why it should not be pretty and becoming as well" (One-piece work dress 1910, p. 34).

A morning dress, work dress, wash dress, house frock, apron frock, house gown, tub frock, dressing sack, wrapper, or bungalow apron also refers to the housedress (or house dress).

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While a host at MTV UK, he went to work dressed up as Osama bin Laden.

Williams sang, "I came home from work dressed in a suit.

Mr. Hemsath talks about Herb Kelleher, its founder, showing up for work dressed as Elvis.

"You don't come to work dressed like that," Mr. Cameron told him severely.

Although she still came to work dressed impeccably, she had lost weight and looked somber, almost shut down.

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