coverlet

Example Sentences

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In her bedroom, a coverlet that Weiss assembled from vintage quilts adorns the bed.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2025

The frayed edge of the quilted cotton coverlet is soft from 20 years of washing, and the air smells like the lavender lotion I just rubbed on my hands.

From Washington Post • Mar. 18, 2022

Flip this compact plain wood carrier for food, drinks and utensils and it becomes a low table for serving or eating poolside, on a beach blanket or on a coverlet in the grass.

From New York Times • Jul. 26, 2021

When not moonstruck, the darkness itself is the draw, a coverlet silencing the day’s concerns, yet granting permission for thoughts to drift forever out into space – while remembering to yell “Car up!”

From The Guardian • Aug. 5, 2019

Viciously, with more of a whimper than a sigh, he foot-pushed his top sheet clear of his ankles, as though any kind of coverlet was suddenly too much for his sunburned, debilitated-looking body to bear.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger