sartorially
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Still, Ava opts for a charcoal-gray, strapless Alberta Ferretti frock to showcase her chameleonic style and capacity to surprise sartorially.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
What threads each decade together, she adds, is that sartorially, the Queen "always made the right choice" - ever appropriate for the occasion.
From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2025
In the first frames of his new course, he slides into a chair dressed in knee-shorts and a shrunken schoolboy blazer, as if to sartorially convey that every student is a teacher.
From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2021
Splintering myself sartorially between “Serious Weekday Megan” and “Fun Weekend Megan” has always seemed a dubiously valuable performance of adulthood.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 16, 2020
“My little sartorially challenged slip of a girl, we are ateliers. We dress the world itself. I embroider the earth with ice and frost, the most delicate silk in the world.”
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
