How to Use finery in a Sentence

finery

noun
  • She was proud to show off her new evening finery.
  • Those in the market for some fresh fall finery are in luck.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The stars showed out in all their finery at this year's Met Gala.
    — Jane Onyanga-Omara, USA TODAY, 7 May 2024
  • Harlem Toile, in all its wit and finery, helps to fill in the visual gaps.
    — New York Times, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Guests showed up in their most eccentric finery.
    — Blanche Marcel, Vanity Fair, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Berber tribes, whether sedentary or nomadic, are renowned for their finery.
    — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 30 Mar. 2015
  • This is not groovy indie finery; there’s a rock-as-high-art vision at work here.
    — Evan Haga, SPIN, 24 May 2024
  • Rabbit meatballs rock — and reveal a chef with a sense of fun amid finery.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Trees and shrubs in all their brilliant fall finery are an amazing sight to behold.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Oct. 2021
  • Bring your pets dressed in their Halloween finery and join the parade.
    — courant.com, 11 Oct. 2019
  • The congregation, in hats and finery, make room for me on their pews.
    — Catherine Fairweather, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Every spring, black graduates walk down grassy knolls draped in the finery.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 9 June 2020
  • As for the color palette, the finery dons the house hues of navy, light blue, green, burgundy, and white.
    — Felicity Carter, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2021
  • But for all its imperial finery and grandeur, the waltz was the people’s dance.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024
  • The Juicy Crab is an event that comes with the finery of plastic bibs and shiny buckets.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Trending codes of modern prep are equipping fashion’s beloved horse girl with all of its frills and finery.
    — Minty Mellon, Vogue, 9 Oct. 2025
  • On the day of the wedding, wearing her finery, the princess climbed into a skiff that ferried her out to the ship.
    — National Geographic, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Some of the finery Ashley viewed on the runway has carried its way into her wardrobe.
    — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Wakandan general Okoye, as the pair stride into a room in all their finery.
    — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 25 July 2022
  • The black-and-white image shows the bride and groom posing together in their wedding finery.
    — Raven Brunner, People.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • In this life-force of a musical, even the help gets to shine like so many sequins on a prima donna’s finery.
    — Greg Evans, Deadline, 21 Nov. 2024
  • While the stars step out in their finery, the photographers at the Oscars have to put on a show too.
    — Marie Lodi, CNN, 9 Mar. 2024
  • The nine of us arrived with our hair blown out or slicked down, shirts tucked in and stomachs sucked in, in our most flattering finery.
    — Vanessa Hua, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Jan. 2018
  • Churchgoers that chilly April day weren't able to show off their Easter finery.
    — Chris Foran, jsonline.com, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Churchgoers that chilly April day weren't able to show off their Easter finery.
    — Chris Foran, jsonline.com, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Just about every one of the 25-or-so houses will be gussied-up in their holiday finery.
    — Chris Kaltenbach, baltimoresun.com, 27 Nov. 2019
  • Guests entered and walked Mar-a-Lago’s red carpet in their finery.
    — Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2024
  • See our gallery of stars in all their finery at the 95th Academy Awards.
    — Jane Onyanga-Omara, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Of all the first-class finery recovered from the Titanic, one piece now reigns supreme.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 24 Nov. 2025
  • And as fate often has it, even for those not dressed in their Western finery, all roads led to the Standard.
    — Vogue, 28 Oct. 2019

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