How to Use fashion plate in a Sentence

fashion plate

noun
  • Yet, it's been a whirlwind year for the young fashion plate.
    Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Leave it to Head to deliver us Shirley MacLaine as a fashion plate.
    Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 19 Apr. 2019
  • That’s the kind of self-assuredness that fashion plates tend to have in common.
    Sarah Spellings, Vogue, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Brock Lesnar has become a fashion plate in his latest run.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
  • The fashion plate of the offensive line is Max Garcia, teammate Josh Jones said.
    José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Always the fashion plate, the model stepped out in a polished fall look that broke a long-standing color rule.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Moves up to the front and looks over at the soundboard, standing at the back almost alone, a fashion plate in his sky blue mohair cardigan and plum wide-legged pants.
    Mitchell S. Jackson, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Dizi Sara is an institution [in Tehran] with an owner who is straight out of a 1970’s fashion plate.
    Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Sep. 2017
  • George wore a sleek three-piece navy suit with a crisp button-up and black dress shoes, while Amal—ever the fashion plate—chose a slinky slip dress worthy of such an event.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 7 Sep. 2022
  • The red and white color combination on her hull gives her a distinct look, as does her glass fashion plate.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 18 Aug. 2023
  • An army of Fairbanks replicas - courtesy of the Neal Hamil Agency - modeled the fashion plate's most notable get-ups from galas past.
    Amber Elliott, Houston Chronicle, 5 Feb. 2018
  • Make no mistake, Garretson does get to play MacGraw as a fashion plate, but there’s much more to the character than that.
    Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 10 May 2022
  • Blair is a world famous actress, someone with MS, a goofball, a beauty buff, a fashion plate, and a fierce mother.
    Keah Brown, Town & Country, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Beware of the consequences of making your daughter a fashion plate.
    Katherine Manuel, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
  • And much like the real-life Mr. Chalamet, his character is nothing short of a fashion plate.
    Todd Plummer, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2021
  • The New York fashion plate knows the department store, a relatively new institution in New York that opened in 2019, like the back of her hand.
    Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2022
  • The fashion plate showed off an off-the-shoulder top, Tabi Mary Jane shoes with bobby socks, and a furry belt that was strapped into her divisive yet chic jorts.
    Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 18 June 2022
  • From Figueroa, head east along Alpine Street to Broadway, past grandmas pushing strollers and teenage fashion plates walking the promenade.
    Jordan Michelman, latimes.com, 21 June 2019
  • The hue was unexpected, even for a fashion plate like Middleton, and an ideal marker for the arrival of spring.
    Maria Ward, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Twenty-two-year-old Timothee Chalet, the internet’s new woke boyfriend, has proven himself to be quite the fashion plate, too.
    Sam Reed, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Jan. 2018
  • Her sophisticated nod to Stone singles her out as a fashion plate with something to say yet again.
    Alice Newbold, Vogue, 27 Mar. 2022
  • Robert is warm and voluble, with a fringe of steel-gray hair and baggy jeans; Michelle, who is sixty, is more of a fashion plate, in leather boots and hip tortoiseshell glasses.
    Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022
  • My friends’ captions, loaded with exclamation points, hailed the budding fashion plate as their queen.
    Janet Mock, Marie Claire, 6 Aug. 2018
  • But model and all-around fashion plate Lourdes Leon has figured out how to balance out a psychedelic piece.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 11 Oct. 2020
  • Already known across the pond for her fecking funny turn on Derry Girls, the actress became a household name and fashion plate in the States thanks to Bridgerton's bodice-ripping success.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 3 Feb. 2022
  • And speaking of watches, football’s fashion plate has another new one.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2019
  • For starters, the yacht is equipped with transparent fashion plates that allow natural light to fill the sprawling four-deck interior.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The death of English actress, singer-songwriter, and Gallic fashion plate Jane Birkin at the age of 76 has deprived the world of one of its most luminous and unconventional idols.
    Erik Morse, Vogue, 20 July 2023
  • Few men in Hollywood are as much of a fashion plate as Timothée Chalamet is.
    Sarah Spellings, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2020
  • Emma Frost, always a fashion plate, had no less than three outfits, all of them as daring as her usual cleavage-baring costumes.
    Tribune News Service, cleveland, 3 July 2021

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