Example Sentences

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Top costumers explain how casual chic, on-trend office wear and quiet luxury are reshaping parental fashion.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 22, 2026

That’s led to a 30% drop in employment from a late-2022 peak for actors, carpenters, costumers and the hundreds of other showbiz professions, according to Labor Department data.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

It also found instances of pretending to offer better deals by showing price reductions that were not based on the actual prior prices, and fake deadlines to put costumers under pressure to buy.

From BBC • May 26, 2025

We the whole team, including the actors, the costumers, art department and cinematography, looked at photos from that period — miners, cowboys, women, buildings towns, streets.

From Salon • Jun. 3, 2024

We have had playwrights who were blacksmiths, playwrights who were costumers, playwrights who were musical-boxes, playwrights who were, if I may be pardoned, garbage incinerators.

From Success A Novel by Adams, Samuel Hopkins