How to Use toga in a Sentence

toga

noun

• The king, cast in lead and covered in gold gilt, sat on a horse and wore a Roman toga and a crown of laurels.
  — Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2021
• Kirk boulder-wrestled a guy in a lizard suit and weird toga.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2022
• But the film isn’t a prequel and Mescal won’t be stepping into Crowe’s toga.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 6 Jan. 2023
• Take the dagger out from under the toga, Mark, and show your colleagues that lean and hungry look.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2017
• Someone had dressed her up in a silver toga-like garment and a knit cap.
  — Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 10 May 2022
• The choice of where to go was easier than finding a beer at a Delta House toga party.
  — Dan Fellner, The Arizona Republic, 27 Aug. 2020
• The long, light-brown hair falling over blue eyes and the tunic or toga framing a tall, slender build.
  — Matthew Martinez, star-telegram, 28 Feb. 2018
• Young lady, put on the light-blue toga to honor our goddess.
  — Hebe Uhart, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2023
• The cast stayed at a motel, where the debauchery rivaled the film’s toga party.
  — Bruce Fretts, New York Times, 1 May 2018
• For his 52nd birthday, Franklin Roosevelt hosted a toga party in the White House.
  — Lillian Cunningham, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2018
• The model stepped out in NYC in a super-short wet-look dress that’s a little bit toga, a little bit bedsheets.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 28 Aug. 2023
• The Nissan Leaf, on the other hand, wears its eudaimonia like a frumpy toga.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2018
• Craggy mountains and a turbulent sky reflect the fury of the white-bearded troubador, who will go to his death in a red toga and black cape, a harp in his hand.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 8 May 2017
• Johnson and Cookie, 64, both wore gold laurels around their heads, with Johnson in a white toga and Cookie in a white dress.
  — Daniel S. Levine, Peoplemag, 4 Aug. 2023
• This kind of school is a great place to build your network of future business allies (and if that happens during a toga party, then so be it).
  — Julie Pennell, Teen Vogue, 2 Feb. 2018
• Altogether, the dress gives the impression of one long piece of silk that has been fashioned into a garment, toga-style.
  — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 2 Sep. 2022
• The winners of a costume/toga contest will be announced between 11 p.m. and midnight.
  — Marcy De Luna, Chron, 29 Oct. 2020
• Take note, fraternities of America, commitment to the shtick is the key to a classy toga party.
  — Brenna Williams, CNN, 9 June 2017
• Veronica, drugged and dressed in a toga, seems to buy into this myth, which is confirmed by an old hermit witch to whom Virginia applies for help.
  — Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Sep. 2019
• The gathering held last June at a park in Irvine, California, was not a standard toga party.
  — Rhaina Cohen, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2022
• The toga was time-consuming to put on, and left one arm immobilized under its complex folds.
  — National Geographic, 4 Nov. 2019
• In fact the modern man resembles the 5th century Frank in trousers far more than the 3rd century Gallo-Roman in toga.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 29 June 2011
• Who can forget commentator Bobby The Brain Heenan dressed in toga while entering the venue backward on a camel.
  — Jim Varsallone, miamiherald, 1 June 2018
• Consider cotton baseball ringer tees, one in red and another in blue, that have extra long, toga-like draped details that swooped across the body.
  — Laia Garcia-Furtado, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2022
• London audiences were mesmerised in 1823 by the mute turn of Thomas Potter Cooke, a mime artist, who played the monster in a blue body-stocking, mini-toga and green and yellow face-paint.
  — The Economist, 17 Feb. 2018
• After puberty, boys swapped the purple trimmed toga praetexta for the plain toga virilis of a man.
  — National Geographic, 4 Nov. 2019
• Today, there is no band playing on the building’s broad front porch, no one hanging out in the Gentleman’s Bar on the first floor, no one in the infamous party basement, and not a toga in sight.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Sep. 2019
• Two hours later, Everett emerged onstage in a bedazzled gold toga, clutching a wine bottle in a paper bag.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
• And then Reese Witherspoon floats in to join the conversation like a Grecian mermaid in a white toga, fiery orange hair braided to the side, blue eyes popping out from dark lashes.
  — refinery29.com, 7 Mar. 2018
• Pool parties, poker nights, talent shows, toga parties, pig roasts.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 22 Aug 2024