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Examples of attire in a Sentence
Margalit Fox, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2024
The travel document comes with a set of guidelines on various aspects of the shot, from the background to attire and even the expression on a person’s face.
—Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2024
According to its founder, Gary Eastman, the business attired nearly every other character in the series, producing the brown B-3 jackets worn by Austin Butler, Barry Keoghan, and others, as well as the Type A-2 horsehide and Type B-10 cotton jackets that also feature throughout the series.
—Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 21 Feb. 2024
Women were attired in an array of lovely, often sparkly, dresses or nice pants suits while almost every man had on a suit and tie, except for those wearing tuxedoes and at least one Scottish gentleman rocking a full dress kilt.
—Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2024
Pro-war culture crusaders excoriated celebrities for engaging in erotic high jinks in scanty attire at a trendy Moscow club while Russian troops died on the front.
—Paul Sonne, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2024
On one side are regally attired mullahs, the type that have protected Persia’s pre-Islamic treasures and even tweet in English.
—Ray Takeyh, Foreign Affairs, 15 Nov. 2015
The spry 89-year-old is otherwise sharply attired, from her neat trouser suit to the amber beads around her neck.
—Danielle Demetriou, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Nov. 2023
Sitting outside at West Hollywood’s famed Sunset Marquis hotel and nattily attired in a vibrant black and green suit, the world’s most famous drummer looks decades younger than his 83 years.
—Melinda Newman, Billboard, 13 Oct. 2023
Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 11 Apr. 2024
Migrants from across Africa and Asia live in the Moorish quarter, bringing to it a mix of attire, languages, and cuisines otherwise foreign to Lisbon.
—Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Apr. 2024
Brides and grooms roamed the park in formal attire, pausing occasionally to put on eclipse glasses and stare at the vanishing sun.
—Dan Horn, The Enquirer, 8 Apr. 2024
But confidently taking the stage Friday in prom-ready attire (and briefly sporting matching shades for the encore), the band's five members and touring drummer Rebekah Rayner swiftly demonstrated a striking sense of self and delivered a 13-song set void of any drag and filled with gripping drama.
—Journal Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2024
Trump’s attire and the background from the 2017 interview match the clip in the Facebook post.
—Brieanna J. Frank, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2024
There are cool details throughout the long, rectangular space: the network of pipes overhead, the cut-glass light fixtures above the bar, the portrait of a rabbit in country attire hanging over the marble fireplace.
—Fritz Hahn, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2024
Historically, waiters competed in classic attire: white jacket, black bow tie and formal dress shoes.
—Aurelien Breeden, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2024
Switch off your smartphones, don your finest attire, grab a coupe glass of champagne and step into a bygone era.
—Jennifer Leigh Parker, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024
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Word History
Verb and Noun
Middle English, from Anglo-French atirer to equip, prepare, attire, from a- (from Latin ad-) + tire order, rank, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English tīr glory, ornament
Verb
14th century, in the meaning defined above
Noun
13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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