Example Sentences

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Like little boys playing superheroes, both Bowie and Jackson have costumed their androgynous bodies as soldiers, gangsters, pirates, cowboys, and astronauts.

From Slate • May 22, 2013

The twelfth- century glassworker would sooner have worn a landscape on his back than have costumed his church with it; he would as soon have decorated his floors with painted holes as his walls.

From Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Adams, Henry

All her gowns were lovely loose or draped or girdled things: you could have costumed the whole cast of two Maeterlinck plays from just those hangers.

From The Wishing-Ring Man by Widdemer, Margaret