cloth

Example Sentences

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During the hottest hours, many retreat to makeshift huts -- frames of sticks draped with coarse homespun cloth, plastered with wild donkey dung.

From Barron's • May 10, 2026

They made their vows standing on a cloth embroidered with their names, then moved with their guests to a nearby café.

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026

The process takes time and is physically exacting; the women must beat the cloth together in rhythm, and to do so they use a tool more commonly associated with sailors pulling ropes: They sing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Though the more famous Lord Cochrane would inspire O’Brian’s Jack Aubrey, Miller was cut from the cloth of Bernard Cornwell’s fictional Richard Sharpe.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

There was no chance to explain that to Anna May as Ma entered the store again, her arms wrapped around a bundle of folded cloth.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu