How to Use dressing gown in a Sentence

dressing gown

noun
  • Mum would be in her dressing gown and the milk would still be on the doorstep.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The shirt can be matched with shorts or pants, and there’s a dressing gown as well.
    — WSJ, 2 Nov. 2021
  • The bather dons a dressing gown and wanders down to the local bathing deck.
    — Health.com, 4 Oct. 2017
  • His mother, still in a dressing gown, calls him to breakfast.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Cruella was portrayed as a maximalist who has a bridal-style train on her dressing gown for fun.
    — Jeanna Kadlec, Glamour, 25 May 2021
  • This dressing gown style robe from Paul Stuart is eloquent enough to stand in for a blazer.
    — Brad Lanphear, Men's Health, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Made of Egyptian cotton and dyed a rich claret color, this dressing gown is perfect for those who want to feel regal.
    — Isiah Magsino, Robb Report, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Around-the-House Robes From classic terrycloth to silk dressing gowns, a bathrobe for every kind of guy.
    — Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 5 Oct. 2024
  • Yet another shows a woman in her dressing gown wearing a gas mask and holding a fire extinguisher.
    — Town & Country, 15 Nov. 2022
  • And not least through its ravishing costumes, which span everything from her most iconic stage outfits to her bedroom dressing gowns.
    — Liam Hess, Vogue, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Harry recalls his father waking him up in the middle of the night, wearing a white dressing gown, to share the news that would change his life forever.
    — Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Six years later, the pair cuddled up in dressing gowns for a butter commercial so, no, the animosity did not last.
    — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 3 June 2026
  • For Suki Waterhouse, old school glamour meant a metallic lurex dressing gown (by Ellery) worn as an evening coat.
    — Edward Barsamian, Vogue, 25 Dec. 2017
  • Parker’s numerous dressing gowns are spot on, and the clingy gowns worn by Divito and Chapman are comely.
    — Joanne Engelhardt, The Mercury News, 12 June 2019
  • Other products include ties, pajamas, dressing gowns, underwear and socks.
    — Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • In another clip, North flipped her hair about excitedly and was later seen with her mom and Grandma posing in matching dressing gowns.
    — Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 18 July 2023
  • In another clip, North flipped her hair about excitedly and was later seen with her mom and Grandma posing in matching dressing gowns.
    — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 27 Jan. 2024
  • In the early years, Uncle Sam was depicted as clean-shaven, amiable and even slightly goofy, clad in a stars-and-stripes dressing gown and liberty cap.
    — Kim Sajet, Smithsonian, 6 Feb. 2018
  • The Duke, on the other hand, is louche and unctuous, the human personification of privilege lounging in a fabulous dressing gown.
    — Hugh Ryan, Town & Country, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Inside a fish and chip shop—the set of the new #GucciTailoring campaign—@harrystyles wears a macro gingham sharkskin dressing gown as a coat over a Heritage pinstripe wool suit.
    — Sarah Spellings, The Cut, 4 June 2018
  • Loro Piana’s Petite Amal dressing gown, in seasonally appropriate lilac-purple linen, works well for working from home or breakfast in bed.
    — Lizzy Wholley, WSJ, 3 May 2022
  • With a bolt of thunder, Garcia's Johnny Rocco appears at the top of the stairs, cocooned in a red satin dressing gown, the only vibrant hue in an otherwise dingy palette.
    — Jordan Riefe, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Nov. 2019
  • My colleague, Eric Twardzik, did a deep dive into why a flannel robe was a perfect lockdown essential—and that remains true post-lockdown, as does his evergreen analysis on the allure of old school dressing gowns.
    — Caroline Reilly, Robb Report, 19 Aug. 2024
  • In 2015, Jackson was kicked off Celebrity Big Brother after pulling open another contestant's dressing gown.
    — Aurelie Corinthios, Peoplemag, 27 Oct. 2022
  • But who foresaw that the biggest hit in digital museum programming would be an on-the-fly lecture series on Flemish and Italian painting, with the chief curator of the Frick Collection sipping on bourbon and wearing a dressing gown?
    — New York Times, 21 May 2021
  • Gimmo Etro started making fabrics in 1968 after his grandmother’s dressing gown sparked a lifelong fascination with paisley, the Persian botanical motif and colonial European style staple.
    — Alexandra Marshall, WSJ, 15 Aug. 2017

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