How to Use cross-dressing in a Sentence

cross-dressing

noun

• In Chinese opera, there is the cross-dressing figure of the dan.
  — Literary Hub, 6 July 2026
• The spark for Dhont came with encountering a simple black-and-white photo of a soldier cross-dressing just behind enemy lines.
  — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 12 May 2026
• Rowling says her latest villain is based on Buffalo Bill, the cross-dressing killer from Silence of the Lambs.
  — Quispe López, Them., 30 Oct. 2025
• For a long time, this has included forms of cross-dressing and gender play, not as identity, but as performance, as part of a tradition that allows, briefly, for social boundaries to loosen.
  — Vogue, 1 June 2026
• In addition to the international travel her plan requires, heroine and track-and-field star Mizuki must cross-dress to attend the all-boys school where her high-jumping beau studies.
  — Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 1 Jan. 2026
• Among the quips, Thompson’s Barkley tossed in the war in Iran, a cross-dressing political spouse, and the ongoing Artemis II mission to orbit the moon.
  — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 4 Apr. 2026
• That cross-dressing comedy was famously out of control even for Pollack, with a star (Dustin Hoffman) who was as much a sparring partner as a collaborator and a script in constant flux.
  — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 14 July 2026
• Fiona Sampson’s new book, Becoming George, is a biography of the cross-dressing 19th-century writer George Sand.
  — The Week Us, TheWeek, 8 July 2026
• After receiving a wave of backlash, the now-notorious TERF said her villain — a cross-dressing cis murderer — was based on a real-life pair of killers, Jerry Brudos and Russell Williams.
  — Quispe López, Them., 30 Oct. 2025
• Former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is divorcing her husband, according to her mother, after allegations that her husband was cross-dressing and talking to online fetish models.
  — Britta Miller, The Washington Examiner, 10 July 2026