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

But, like the author, we snag on that Polish word, and its suggestion of cold oilcloth, garden tomatoes, and stove fumes.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 24, 2018

Spiotta and I sat in a diner in Cooperstown, a road atlas open on the apple-print oilcloth.

From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2016

We bought her an oilcloth and helped her stitch clothes and pillowcases out of the fabric she had saved over the years.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri