contexture

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.

We are all framed of flaps and patches, and of so shapeless and diverse a contexture, that every piece and every moment playeth his part.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 8, 2017

London, 1631, and dedicated to Endymion Porter, Esq; Our author in the contexture of this Tragedy, has made use of the Antigone of Sophocles, and the Thebais of Seneca.Cleopatra,

From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II by Cibber, Theophilus

Strengthened as was his monarchical power in Spain, in Germany he found it hemmed in and fettered by the estates of the empire and the whole contexture of political relations.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 by Johnson, Rossiter

All these are so interwoven, that the attempt to separate them would tear to pieces the contexture of the whole, and, if not entirely destroy, would very much depreciate, the value of all the parts.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

A good writer will not coil them up and press them into the narrowest possible space, nor macerate them into such particles that nothing shall be remaining of their natural contexture.

From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage