How to Use cross-dressing in a Sentence
cross-dressing
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The spark for Dhont came with encountering a simple black-and-white photo of a soldier cross-dressing just behind enemy lines.
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David Canfield,
HollywoodReporter,
12 May 2026
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Rowling says her latest villain is based on Buffalo Bill, the cross-dressing killer from Silence of the Lambs.
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Quispe López,
Them.,
30 Oct. 2025
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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.
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Vogue,
1 June 2026
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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.
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Eric Vilas-Boas,
Vulture,
1 Jan. 2026
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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.
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Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
4 Apr. 2026
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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.
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Quispe López,
Them.,
30 Oct. 2025
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