cotton

Example Sentences

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It was Brown, a Rhode Island blue blood whose name now adorns an Ivy League university, who in 1790 financed Slater’s stolen ideas for a state-of-the-art cotton mill.

From Barron's

I know that posture, those jeans, that casual cotton shirt.

From Literature

“Oh, it needs a lowrider. It needs a palm tree. It needs perfect orange, cotton candy lighting.”

From Los Angeles Times

It wound up like a dark cloud of cotton candy behind her head.

From Literature

The exhibition will incorporate materials such as antique timber, porcelain, cotton, glass and bronze, and will bring new and existing large-scale work together, on display in the UK for the first time.

From BBC