pleat

Example Sentences

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And if I’m ever desperate for a sharp pleat, well, there’s always the dry cleaner for that.

From Slate • Mar. 11, 2021

“We can’t produce them at the incredible rate she can pleat them, but they are delicious!”

From Washington Times • Jul. 27, 2020

A single pleat on the back of this shirt gives an upscale look to the athletic top.

From Golf Digest • Mar. 9, 2020

He may have given us the single glove as signifier, but he also understood the power of a well-placed pleat — especially before he began disappearing into the world of his own imagination.

From New York Times • Aug. 29, 2018

I’m glad it’s dusk; I’m nervous about the backs of my thighs, the wrinkling above my knees, the soft fold across my stomach, not fatness exactly but a pleat.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood