Get to know Finery better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like attire or garb.
Finery in a sentence
Finery meaning
- Fineness; beauty.
- Ornament; decoration; especially, excessive decoration; showy clothes; jewels.
- fine point; minute characteristic
Using Finery
- The main meaning on this page is: Fineness; beauty. | Ornament; decoration; especially, excessive decoration; showy clothes; jewels. | fine point; minute characteristic
- Useful related words include: attire, garb, dress.
- In the example corpus, finery often appears in combinations such as: their finery, her finery.
Context around Finery
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 10 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 15 statements, 2 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Finery
- In this selection, "finery" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, racing, summer, exotic, exiting, take and banquets stand out and add context to how "finery" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include all their finery their lives and and other finery with them. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "finery" sits close to words such as abad, abolishment and abr, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with finery
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
They imagined he paid for her finery. (7 words)
When Falstaff returns in his finery, they leave together with elaborate displays of mutual courtesy. (15 words)
There was a kind of pathos when, even in all their finery, their lives remained threadbare. (16 words)
Racecourse bosses have been forced to act following unsavoury scenes at recent meetings across the country, where alcohol-induced scraps which left punters' finery in tatters have been caught on camera phones and shared widely on social media. (38 words)
The pilgrim fleet sailing between Surat in India and Mocha on the tip of the Arabian Peninsula provided a favorite target, because the wealthy Muslim pilgrims often carried jewels and other finery with them to Mecca. (36 words)
All their lives they have known more of jewelry, finery, banquets, automobiles, horses, and other articles of pleasure than they have of books, with their wealth of knowledge. (28 words)
How long can I stand at my window and watch the goldfinches, small flitting suns in their summer finery? (19 words)
With already over 3 million users and $1.2 billion dollars in annual revenue, why did Stitch Fix need to acquire Finery? (22 words)
Example sentences (17)
Footage shows the escapees — decked out in their racing finery — exiting the beach area, crossing a pedestrian footpath and galloping away.
How long can I stand at my window and watch the goldfinches, small flitting suns in their summer finery?
Neither William or Harry, when they were kids, wanted their mother to sort of dress in her finery, take them to school,” Wharfe says.
These men also had the means to pay an aspiring artist to capture them in their finery on their favourite hunt.
They imagined he paid for her finery.
There was a kind of pathos when, even in all their finery, their lives remained threadbare.
It was a source of exotic finery and soulful treasures like gold, peacocks, jewels, frankincense and precious sandalwood.
Russian cadets stepped out in their glamorous finery for the annual Kremlin Cadet Ball in Moscow today.
With already over 3 million users and $1.2 billion dollars in annual revenue, why did Stitch Fix need to acquire Finery?
Ahn has access to all the coolest designer clothes but is prone to wearing vintage finds from thrift shops along with her high-end finery.
Racecourse bosses have been forced to act following unsavoury scenes at recent meetings across the country, where alcohol-induced scraps which left punters' finery in tatters have been caught on camera phones and shared widely on social media.
All their lives they have known more of jewelry, finery, banquets, automobiles, horses, and other articles of pleasure than they have of books, with their wealth of knowledge.
He leaves the room just as Pasquale enters, dressed in his outdated finery, along with his servants, to whom he gives instructions to admit Malatesta on his arrival.
Polanski was dressed in what the press described as " Edwardian finery ", while Tate was attired in a white minidress.
The most difficult and work-intensive part of the process, however, was the production of wrought iron done in finery forges in Sweden.
The pilgrim fleet sailing between Surat in India and Mocha on the tip of the Arabian Peninsula provided a favorite target, because the wealthy Muslim pilgrims often carried jewels and other finery with them to Mecca.
When Falstaff returns in his finery, they leave together with elaborate displays of mutual courtesy.
Common combinations with finery
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: