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How to use the word well-dressed in a Sentence?

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None of that disturbs me other than I have far less money than people think I have, that's the price of being well-dressed, I guess.

Roger Stone

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I thought I was going to the detention camp, or to trial, or something. I went from my guest house to a nearby hotel, then some well-dressed North Korean man came in and said 'Kim Jong Un has recommended that you be released.' And that was the first thing I heard about it.

Jeffrey Fowle

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

Then some well-dressed North Korean man came in and said 'Kim Jong Un has recommended that you be released.' And that was the first thing I heard about it.

Jeffrey Fowle

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

They're killing those of us in the street to steal our bike because there are no bikes or spare parts, well-dressed women participate in the scam. They ask for a taxi ride, and when you arrive there is a thief waiting to rob you. Sometimes our companions don't want to hand over the motorcycle and they shoot them in the legs or they kill them.

Jorge MontaƱo

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

Nicolas Chamfort

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Any lady with sexy breast for a man is each time well-dressed.

Volodymyr Knyr

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.

Laurie Colwin

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquility that religion is powerless to bestow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoting a friend

added by anonymous
13 years ago

There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.

Diane Ackerman

added by anonymous
14 years ago

I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.

Charles Dickens

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14 years ago

If you turn your back on these people, you yourself are an animal. You may be a well-dressed animal, but you are nevertheless an animal.

Edward Irving Koch

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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