shawl
Example Sentences
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The dining room table, where the sisters wrote, is strewn with manuscripts, quill pens and tea cups; a bonnet and shawl bedeck a chair in the small kitchen.
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026
Tears streamed from the eyes of Uwde Sliman, a 40-year-old Ethiopian draped in a white shawl, as she came out of the church.
From Barron's • Apr. 9, 2026
She looked perfectly angelic in an all-white glittery dress, complete with a flowing fur shawl.
From BBC • Feb. 28, 2026
There’s the pink shawl that keeps getting taken away from her, and the dance-like physicality of her movements.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 8, 2025
Beneath the shadowing shawl her head was tied up with a rag – to keep her dead jaw from dropping in one final gape.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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