FLEECE in a Sentence
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18 example sentences for FLEECE, such as:
1. These sheep have fine thick fleeces.
2. He was wearing black combat trousers and a hooded fleece.
3. His fleeced sheep attend him, this his single delight and solace in ill.
4. She wound her forefinger in his yellow fleece and pulled it, watching him.
5. They shear sheep of their fleece, which they then comb into separate strands of wool.
2. He was wearing black combat trousers and a hooded fleece.
3. His fleeced sheep attend him, this his single delight and solace in ill.
4. She wound her forefinger in his yellow fleece and pulled it, watching him.
5. They shear sheep of their fleece, which they then comb into separate strands of wool.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of FLEECE
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fleece
v. rob; strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; ask unreasonable price
Classic Sentence:
1 His rosy face, with its snub nose, set in this fleece, was like a melon among its leaves.
2 She wound her forefinger in his yellow fleece and pulled it, watching him.
3 He hadn't much head behind his ears, and his tawny fleece grew down thick to the back of his neck.
4 Sitting with his head dropped, he looked at the folds of her body in the fire-glow, and at the fleece of soft brown hair that hung down to a point between her open thighs.
5 With quiet fingers he threaded a few forget-me-not flowers in the fine brown fleece of the mound of Venus.
6 Thenardier had withdrawn discreetly, without venturing to wish him a good night, as he did not wish to treat with disrespectful cordiality a man whom he proposed to fleece royally the following morning.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
7 And now the golden fleece is found; not only found, but, in its birthplace, woven.
8 Then he gathered up the cloak and the fleeces on which he had lain, and set them on a seat in the cloister, but he took the bullock's hide out into the open.
9 Since my last return I find the breed is considerably increased, especially the sheep, which I hope will prove much to the advantage of the woollen manufacture, by the fineness of the fleeces.
10 Likewise there was within the house a marble temple of her ancient lord, kept of her in marvellous honour, and fastened with snowy fleeces and festal boughs.
11 Here then, likewise seeking an answer, lord Latinus paid fit sacrifice of an hundred woolly ewes, and lay couched on the strewn fleeces they had worn.
12 A vile wind that has no doubt blown ere this through prison corridors and cells, and wards of hospitals, and ventilated them, and now comes blowing hither as innocent as fleeces.
13 WICK CUTTER WAS the money-lender who had fleeced poor Russian Peter.
14 His fleeced sheep attend him, this his single delight and solace in ill.
Example Sentence:
1 Further, Ossie does not have control over Susan's money, so he will not have the opportunity to fleece her.
2 They shear sheep of their fleece, which they then comb into separate strands of wool.
3 He was wearing black combat trousers and a hooded fleece.
4 These sheep have fine thick fleeces.