How to Use clothe in a Sentence

clothe

verb
  • The tables are still clad in white linen.
    — Robert F. Moss, Southern Living, 10 May 2026
  • Vise says she was fully clothed.
    — Audrey Abrahams, NBC news, 8 Mar. 2026
  • He was fully clothed with a black shirt, black shorts and black shoes.
    — Keith Sharon, Nashville Tennessean, 26 July 2025
  • About a dozen cousins sat a few feet from him, clad in campaign gear.
    — Nick Corasaniti, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2019
  • She was not entirely clothed at the time.
    — Alyssa Davis, PEOPLE, 14 Sep. 2025
  • She was clad in a sweatshirt and bleary from the early hour.
    — Jeff Ernsthausen, ProPublica, 23 Mar. 2026
  • León was clothed, his garments smeared with Rivera’s blood.
    — Mattha Busby, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2026
  • His body was fully clothed except for one glove.
    — Jim Hoagland, Outdoor Life, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The emperor was not, in fact, clad in the finest suit.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Guest rooms are clad in all-white linens and furniture.
    — Nneka M. Okona, Travel + Leisure, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Dunne even gave the prince, who was clad in his army uniform, a kiss on the cheek.
    — Nicole Saunders, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 Apr. 2019
  • She is covered by a sheet, and beneath the sheet she is clothed.
    — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Our mascot will be a rabbi, clad in a black hat and a long coat.
    — Jonathan Zimmerman, New York Daily News, 9 Feb. 2025
  • Though he was fully clothed, his throat had also been slit.
    — John Wayne Ferguson, Houston Chronicle, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Behind her is a snow- and icicle-clad ridge.
    — Todd Melby, Twin Cities, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Egan didn't say whether the man was clothed or what led to the incident.
    — Janine Puhak, Fox News, 16 May 2018
  • Click on to clothe your summer selves in the coolest, chicest fabric around.
    — Kate Spencer, refinery29.com, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Arbus couldn’t just go, fully clothed, and tromp around the camps.
    — Alicia Ault, Smithsonian, 24 Apr. 2018
  • The girl’s been looked after and clothed and fed and sent to lovely schools.
    — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 24 May 2018
  • The girl’s been looked after and clothed and fed and sent to lovely schools.
    — Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Easy to jab it once, twice, three times into a dark raincoat-clad back.
    — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 8 Dec. 2018
  • Your food may be stripped down, but shoppers need to be fully clothed, of course.
    — Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Men and women clad in church clothes line up their cars along the curb and make their way to a gravesite.
    — Caren Chesler, Popular Mechanics, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Many of them didn’t have tickets, and all were clad in some version of gold and black.
    — Martin Rogers, USA TODAY, 29 May 2018
  • Dial was clad in a helmet, gas mask and body armor at the time.
    — oregonlive, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Men and women clad in church clothes line up their cars along the curb and make their way to a grave site.
    — Caren Chesler, Popular Mechanics, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Black ran into the water fully clothed and pulled the child out.
    — Nick Lunemann, CBS News, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Tiffani Evans laced her fingers with the women clothed in all black.
    — Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2023
  • Hines was partially clothed as the workers moved her off the plane.
    — Fox News, 14 June 2017
  • The singer, clad in black with bug-eyed shades gripping his face, motioned first to his left.
    — Matt Sebastian, Denver Post, 29 July 2025

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