How to Use window dressing in a Sentence

window dressing

noun

• These changes are being made for a good reason. They're not just window dressing.
• In a way, all the blood and the guts and gore and stuff is the window dressing.
  — Nojan Aminosharei, Men's Health, 24 June 2022
• Avengers is that the IP was just window dressing for the gameplay.
  — Brittany Vincent, BGR, 25 Oct. 2021
• All and all, the agreement looks to be little more than window dressing.
  — Sam Goodman, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2022
• His risks here yield huge returns; the rest is window dressing.
  — Stefanie Fernández, Rolling Stone, 24 Mar. 2023
• All this was window dressing for the more massive long-range attack that was to come this week.
  — Seth J. Frantzman, National Review, 17 Sep. 2019
• Having three wide receivers on the field wasn’t even window dressing for the Packers.
  — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2022
• But the twists and turns of the first two episodes of Obi-Wan Kenobi are mere window dressing to the primary conflict of the six-episode series.
  — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 14 June 2022
• The question now is whether all the measures are anything more than window dressing.
  — Scott Johnson, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Oct. 2022
• The circumstances of their lives are just window dressings.
  — Haben Kelati, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2024
• But that was the case when Tommy decided to check out the window dressing at the Jones home in Olmsted Falls.
  — Ann Norman, cleveland, 25 Nov. 2021
• The new lambs, however, will not be mere window dressing.
  — Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 6 Mar. 2021
• And the clean grill marks etched across chicken breast painted with chipotle and cilantro sauces were just window dressing for meat that came out dry and stringy.
  — Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 22 Aug. 2019
• The lima beans, creamed corn and peach cobbler are merely window dressing.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 30 Apr. 2021
• That’s when people see what’s real and what’s window dressing.
  — Ann Kowal Smith, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
• The kids on the street and the sidewalks are merely window dressing for the real head-to-head struggle that is taking place among the amazing machines called cars.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
• That one-percenter healthy living also comes with its fair share of window dressing.
  — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2024
• What are some changes that could really make a difference and what is just window dressing?
  — Jennifer Maloney, WSJ, 15 May 2021
• That’s all just window dressing, of course, to what most fans will come out or tune in to see — tangible, firsthand proof that Riley is righting the ship at USC.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2022
• Barbie Land is a pink-bedecked paradise of plastic where all the Barbies hang out and have fun while the Kens are just sort of there as window dressing.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 20 July 2023
• Sark’s also been really good at that – window dressing, run the same plays, comes in a different way.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 9 Sep. 2023
• That fancy design is really just window dressing for the main event: the 24-inch display.
  — Joanna Stern, WSJ, 18 May 2021
• A lot of this is merely window dressing: in a dictatorship like North Korea, whatever Kim wants is the law and that’s that.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 20 Sep. 2022
• Alabama’s ground attack served as little more than window dressing in its past four games against SEC foes.
  — Blake Toppmeyer, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2021
• The taxonomy of the projects, their construction and placement, is so much window dressing.
  — Sydette Harry, Wired, 11 Jan. 2021
• Quarter-end window dressing might have been a factor as active managers need to show their top ten holdings.
  — Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021
• All this is just window dressing around the real point: Nintendo’s offering a chance to play some of its best games again, in more or less their original form.
  — David Pierce, WIRED, 27 Sep. 2017
• Many companies focus on window dressing instead of strategies that are right for them—both in terms of requirements and scale.
  — Eddy Azad, Forbes, 4 May 2023
• The decorative details on the main house depict faux columns and window dressing.
  — Lauren Beale, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
• But the window dressing of new legal codes and electoral procedures sought to obscure a reality that was far from democratic.
  — Renad Mansour, Foreign Affairs, 20 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024