Use robes in a sentence | example usage from the newswires

Editorial »

How to use the word robes in a Sentence?

Sample usage from literary quotes and the newswire.

Filter by category:

14 results found

Cara: I just found a delightful account of a case against a wizard who once fancied getting drunk, marching down to the market on Stentor Street, hiking up his robes to random women and commanding them to kiss the serpent. – Terry Goodkind	added by tucholske.christian44 2 years ago
Judicial robes aren’t bulletproof, your threat was despicable and it was calculated to instill a maximum amount of fear. – Trevor McFadden	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If the public sees judges as politicians in robes, its confidence in the courts and in the rule of law can only diminish, diminishing the court's power, including its power to act as a check on other branches, that authority, like the rule of law, depends on trust... that the court is guided by legal principle, not politics. – Stephen Breyer	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace, or after ages of conflict and war; but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred. – Edward Everett	added by Normando 3 years ago
The cover-up has ended, and now we're going right to the top, take away their robes, take away their religion, and they're just criminals. – Mitchell Garabedian	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I don't think we want judges commenting on the latest political controversy, because that would ultimately lead the people to doubt whether we're independent or whether we're politicians in robes, and so maintaining that strict independence of the judiciary requires me, I think, to avoid commenting on any current events. – Brett Kavanaugh	Found on CNN 5 years ago
My very favorite was Father James Martin, he’s a Jesuit priest who was advising us on the exhibition, and he came in his appropriate robes and apparently all night people were coming up to him and saying, ‘I really like that you came as a sexy priest and you look so authentic.’ That was my favorite. – Anna Wintour	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
This collection centers on the idea of a nomad going to the thermal baths in Switzerland, so, it's the idea of the explorer going to a spa ... of dressing and undressing. So we have a lot of kind of robes that are mixed in and out as outerwear. – Carlos Garciavelez	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Cheongsam means long robe in Cantonese and actually only became a common woman's wear after the May Fourth Movement( 1919), or the New Culture Movement, women started wearing men's long robes as a feminist statement and trend during that anti-Qing era. – Osmond Chan	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Shall He to thee His aid refuse Who clothes the swan in dazzling white, Who robes in green the parrot bright, The peacocks decks in rainbow hues?* – The Hitopadesa	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes. – Herman Melville, Moby Dick	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self, in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned. This trust in one's nakedness is all that gives one the power to change one's robes. – James Arthur Baldwin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed. – Barbara Tuchman	added by anonymous 14 years ago
You look as if you're ready for bed. (to the Nigerian President, who was dressed in traditional robes) – Prince Phillip	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Cara: I just found a delightful account of a case against a wizard who once fancied getting drunk, marching down to the market on Stentor Street, hiking up his robes to random women and commanding them to kiss the serpent.

– Terry Goodkind

added by tucholske.christian44
2 years ago

Judicial robes aren’t bulletproof, your threat was despicable and it was calculated to instill a maximum amount of fear.

– Trevor McFadden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If the public sees judges as politicians in robes, its confidence in the courts and in the rule of law can only diminish, diminishing the court's power, including its power to act as a check on other branches, that authority, like the rule of law, depends on trust... that the court is guided by legal principle, not politics.

– Stephen Breyer

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace, or after ages of conflict and war; but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred.

– Edward Everett

added by Normando
3 years ago

The cover-up has ended, and now we're going right to the top, take away their robes, take away their religion, and they're just criminals.

– Mitchell Garabedian

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I don't think we want judges commenting on the latest political controversy, because that would ultimately lead the people to doubt whether we're independent or whether we're politicians in robes, and so maintaining that strict independence of the judiciary requires me, I think, to avoid commenting on any current events.

– Brett Kavanaugh

Found on CNN
5 years ago

My very favorite was Father James Martin, he’s a Jesuit priest who was advising us on the exhibition, and he came in his appropriate robes and apparently all night people were coming up to him and saying, ‘I really like that you came as a sexy priest and you look so authentic.’ That was my favorite.

– Anna Wintour

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

This collection centers on the idea of a nomad going to the thermal baths in Switzerland, so, it's the idea of the explorer going to a spa ... of dressing and undressing. So we have a lot of kind of robes that are mixed in and out as outerwear.

– Carlos Garciavelez

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Cheongsam means long robe in Cantonese and actually only became a common woman's wear after the May Fourth Movement( 1919), or the New Culture Movement, women started wearing men's long robes as a feminist statement and trend during that anti-Qing era.

– Osmond Chan

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Shall He to thee His aid refuse Who clothes the swan in dazzling white, Who robes in green the parrot bright, The peacocks decks in rainbow hues?*

– The Hitopadesa

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.

– Herman Melville, Moby Dick

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self, in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned. This trust in one's nakedness is all that gives one the power to change one's robes.

– James Arthur Baldwin

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

– Barbara Tuchman

added by anonymous
14 years ago

You look as if you're ready for bed. (to the Nigerian President, who was dressed in traditional robes)

– Prince Phillip

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Discuss these sample sentences with the community:

0 Comments

Notify me of new comments via email.

Editorial »

How to use the word robes in a Sentence?

Sample usage from literary quotes and the newswire.

14 results found

Discuss these sample sentences with the community:

0 Comments

Are we missing a good definition for robes? Don't keep it to yourself...

Word of the Day

Would you like us to send you a FREE new word definition delivered to your inbox daily?

The Web's Largest Resource for

Definitions & Translations

A Member Of The STANDS4 Network

Free, no signup required:

Add to Chrome

Free, no signup required:

Add to Firefox

Browse Definitions.net

Quiz

Are you a words master?

cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of