oilcloth

Example Sentences

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“Swap out the linen cloth for a wipeable oilcloth when it’s time for the kids to do homework or an art project,” she advises.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 7, 2023

Apart from the boiler, other items on the tank include an oilcloth table cloth from the family's summer house, new Disney bedsheets for her children and a red blanket, she says.

From BBC • May 31, 2022

The colors of the walls — in Fanta-can shades of fuchsia and orange — were snatched from countryside billboards; a hand-painted sign is out front and the tables are covered in sliced-off-the-roll neon floral oilcloth.

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2014

Afterward, he mopped the oilcloth clean and took down the Hebrew books with their crumbling leather spines.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 28, 2013

He reached behind himself, hacking blindly at the cord, but only succeeded in becoming more entangled, both in the rope and the oilcloth that had been draped from the scaffolding above.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros