CLOTH in a Sentence

Learn CLOTH from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
408 example sentences for CLOTH, such as:
1. Cover the table with a cloth.
2. Cut your coat to suit your cloth.
3. We padded the box with soft cloth.
4. Cut the coat according to the cloth.
5. The design was impressed on the cloth.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of CLOTH
cloth
 n.  artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The proprietor and two clerks stood on the sidewalk with armfuls of bolts of cotton cloth they had been displaying.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
2  It was almost impossible to obtain these small luxuries now--ladies were wearing hand-whittled wooden hairpins and covering acorns with cloth for buttons--and Pitty lacked the moral stamina to refuse them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  Melanie looked sad but tranquil, though tears dropped down on the cloth she held in her hands.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
4  About the blue cloth, when it comes to a choice between having holes in your britches or patching them with pieces of a captured Yankee uniform--well, there just isn't any choice.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
5  She watched the swell of his powerful shoulders against the cloth with a fascination that was disturbing, a little frightening.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
6  Mammy cried silently as she sponged the gaunt bodies, using the remnant of an old apron as a cloth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
7  Automatically, she dodged behind the curtain and peered fascinated at him through the dim folds of the cloth, so startled that the breath went out of her lungs with a gasp.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
8  "Thank God, I'm not that modest," thought Scarlett, feeling rather than seeing Melanie's agony of embarrassment, as she wrapped the ragged cloth about the shattered face.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
9  There was a semblance of order in the front of the store, where tall shelves rose into the gloom stacked with bright bolts of cloth, china, cooking utensils and notions.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
10  As she did so, the woman paused in her work and looked up curiously, resting her clenched red fists on the wet cloth she had just drawn from her pail.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
11  A rocker had a back like a lyre, a near-leather seat imitating tufted cloth, and arms like Scotch Presbyterian lions; with knobs, scrolls, shields, and spear-points on unexpected portions of the chair.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
12  Today, in reeking early August, she wore a man's cap, a skinny fur like a dead cat, a necklace of imitation pearls, a scabrous satin blouse, and a thick cloth skirt hiked up in front.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
13  Her fingers tightened about his thumb as she perceived the hot low room, the pounding of pressing-irons, the reek of scorched cloth, and Erik among giggling gnomes.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
14  She noted a figure in a rusty coat and a cloth cap.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
15  Wrapping myself in my shaggy jacket of the cloth called bearskin, I fought my way against the stubborn storm.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7. The Chapel.
Example Sentence: (198 in 14 pages)
1  Cut the coat according to the cloth.
2  We must cut our coat according to our cloth this year.
3  You'd better wrap a clean cloth around your arm till the wound closes.
4  They would spin and weave cloth, cook and attend to the domestic side of life.
5  No man can make a good coat with bad cloth.
6  I tried to soak up most of the spilt milk with a cloth.
7  Cut your coat to suit your cloth.
8  Give it a sponge with a damp cloth - that will remove the blood stains.
9  Sophia stanched the blood with a cloth.
10  We padded the box with soft cloth.
11  You'll have to pad out the chair with some more cloth before recovering it.
12  The cloth blends in with her color of skin very much.
13  Cover the table with a cloth.
14  The shop laid the cloth by for a customer.
15  The design was impressed on the cloth.