How to Use full dress in a Sentence

full dress

noun
  • The officers were in full dress.
  • The Army required full dress be worn to the event.
  • In a full dress rehearsal the day before, the flares worn by sky divers singed the field.
    Kevin Draper, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2020
  • Above my head, full dress-grey overcast lifts to blues and Bob Ross happy clouds.
    Matt Farwell, The New Republic, 30 Dec. 2019
  • The full dress code policy was sent to parents about three months ago.
    Megan Friedman, Seventeen, 9 May 2016
  • Two older women in full dress and makeup gaze back at Maier’s lens.
    Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Another chic way to bring some snakeskin into your style game is a full dress or skirt.
    Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 Jan. 2019
  • But Mbatha reveled watching the full dress ensemble on the screen.
    Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2021
  • It’s all built on a soft sub roll with a full dress of lettuce, tomatoes, onions, vinegar, oil and brown mustard to keep things from getting too stiff and formal.
    Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Standing in the main area of the narcotics division, where McCarthy worked, was a female sergeant in full dress uniform with blonde hair and green eyes — just like her own.
    Kc Baker, PEOPLE.com, 11 Sep. 2020
  • Nearby were Star Wars characters in full dress for photos.
    Linda Gandee/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland, 21 Oct. 2019
  • The only full dress rehearsal of the 2020 census, unfolding this month in Providence County, R.I., has been scaled back in some areas.
    Michael Wines and Emily Baumgaertner, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2018
  • The honor guard fires the three-shot rifle volley salute, fold and present the flag, and play Taps, the only local Honor Guard that conducts the ceremony in full dress military uniforms.
    Sharon Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 25 May 2020
  • The native of Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, was invited to an Olympic youth camp in Beijing, which included a chance to see the opening ceremony in a full dress rehearsal.
    James T. Areddy, WSJ, 5 Feb. 2022
  • After the defense dominated Auburn's first spring scrimmage, how the offense responds today will be worth noting in the last full dress rehearsal before A-Day.
    Tom Green, AL.com, 31 Mar. 2018
  • With Republican Guards standing motionless in full dress uniforms, the squad quickly broke into party mode for the official photos.
    Elaine Ganley, The Seattle Times, 17 July 2018
  • There are also far better ways to honor American troops than by forcing them to wear a full dress uniform in the Washington humidity and 90-degree heat on a federal holiday.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 4 July 2019
  • Active-duty service members routinely wear their full dress uniforms to testify on Capitol Hill.
    Alex Horton, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Nov. 2019

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