pleat

Example Sentences

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My mother in her paisley skirt, stained by orange juice and flour, baking cookies and pies surrounded by her children, the four of us clinging to her pleats, competing for her love.

From Salon

Computer programs helped devise the canyon’s parametric curves; Gang refined the creases and pleats.

From New York Times

From wide ledges and even “photo spots” illuminated by bright lights, patrons can watch cooks pat the filling and seal each dumpling with the trademark 18 folds, pleated nimbly by hand.

From New York Times

Then they feed, lunging at the tightly gathered prey with jaws agape, engulfing thousands of gallons of krill-filled water in their pleated throat pouches before straining the catch through their baleen.

From Scientific American

At the event, the pleats and roomy waists that we have all grown to love were there.

From Los Angeles Times