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Example sentences for "baize"

Lexicographically close words:
baiters; baith; baiting; baitings; baits; bajan; bajo; bajos; baju; bak
  1. The green baize door was there still, but when he came into his old domain he drew a long breath.

  2. Sometimes he strayed along the big passage and peeped through the green baize door which led down the front stairs.

  3. When Bobby was dressed and Nurse had gone downstairs to fetch something from the servants' hall, he ran to the green baize door and crept along the passage to his uncle's bedroom.

  4. Bobby promised to be good, but with the sounds of such an unusual bustle in the house what small boy could resist peeping through the green baize door occasionally to see what was going on?

  5. And Sunday morning was his opportunity to slip through the green baize door and wander over the house, for his grandmother and uncle and aunt always went to church, and the house was empty.

  6. We were shut away from the rest of the house by the baize door.

  7. At that moment, one of the green baize doors swung open, and Captain Crouch limped into the room.

  8. He went to one of the green baize doors at the other end of the room, opened it, and looked in.

  9. As he was engaged in lighting this, a green baize door swung back and there entered one of the most extraordinary men that it was ever the lot of the young medical student to behold.

  10. If you looked into the room through the glass peep-hole in one of the green baize doors, you might have thought at first that you beheld a menagerie, where the fiercest and the rarest beasts in the world were imprisoned in a single cage.

  11. And the little that was known of these uttermost parts of the earth never passed the green baize doors of the inner smoking-room of the Explorers' Club.

  12. In the inner smoking-room, through the green baize doors, where guests were not admitted, both the conversation and the company were at once remarkable and unique.

  13. Shut the baize door, if you please, sir," said Garstang, blandly.

  14. Her finger drawn along the green baize table-cloth revealed the dust.

  15. A person dressed as a sort of butler, very red in the face, emerged from a green baize door at the end of the passage and advanced wrathfully.

  16. Theodore came out from behind the screen to try to offer some word of thanks, but Mr. Stephens had pushed open the green baize door and vanished.

  17. There came a low tapping on the green baize door of Mr. Stephens' private office.

  18. The ill-ventilated room reeked with the effluvia of stale smoke, and the faded green baize of a little round table in the centre was covered with filbert-shells and empty ale-glasses.

  19. He found the green baize door that usually distinguishes the entrance to these secondary suites, and was presently lurching along its contracted passage.

  20. My father walked backwards with a silver candlestick, and red baize awaited the royal feet.

  21. They pushed open the green baize door which admitted them to the sanctum of learning and came in.

  22. She reached the baize door, opened it, and soon found herself in the old nursery.

  23. Putting the ring in its morocco case, she opened the baize door which led to the nursery part of the house, and soon found herself in Mrs. Martin's apartments.

  24. Why, in one school, a chap told me, there were big baize doors and a passage about a mile long between the house and the master's house.

  25. I have seen the house drowned in tears over that lugubrious and hollow 'East Lynne' when the stage has been enclosed in green baize and there has not been a stick of respectable furniture on the boards.

  26. There was a short, tense silence; and Andrews, who had been hovering unnoticed in the background, suddenly dived through the baize door and disappeared, as one who feels his presence an intrusion.

  27. Jane wiped her fingers upon the baize apron, and Peter lighted a cigarette.

  28. If you are working on a piece of unattached glass, lay it on a flat table (a marble slab is preferable), over which you must previously lay a piece of baize or cloth to keep the glass steady.

  29. And gone I had, through the baize door to the back landing, with Raffles at my heels.

  30. He must needs lead me into the boys' part, through the green baize door.

  31. Except that," said I, kicking the huge oak case with the iron bands and clamps, and the baize lining fast disappearing under heavy packages bearing the shapes of urns and candelabra.

  32. On our side of the baize door a fine hospitality and a finer flow of spirits were the order of the night.

  33. There was the wide part of the landing between us; we had just that much start along the narrow part, with the walls and doors upon our left, the banisters on our right, and the baize door at the end.

  34. I followed his instructions, taking up my position by the baize door, and wondering what on earth lay behind the request.

  35. Stand there--just this side of the baize door.

  36. Outside the Dove and Easel he lifted his green baize apron, a finger and thumb at each corner, and made a few shuffling movements with his feet; then he winked, grinned, and finally laughed.

  37. As he pursued his contemplation Mr. Gandy saw the outer doors pushed open, admitting a stream of yellow sunshine and with it a little bald-headed man with a red nose and green baize apron.

  38. He wore the green baize apron of his class.

  39. He paused and slapped his green baize apron-covered leg.

  40. In course of time Tom went away; Dick saw him go with his fiddle tucked under his arm in its baize cover.

  41. But pathways of green baize were laid along the floor in every possible direction, where it could be supposed that any reasonable person might desire to walk.

  42. Trappy Pape was the next to be joked, as he came up hugging the green baize bag containing his violoncello.

  43. Reuben stood with waiting hands while the old man unknotted the strings at the mouth of the green baize bag, and all eyes watched Ezra's lean fingers.

  44. When his eyes became accustomed to the semi-darkness he was sure to notice a dozen or more green baize bags which hung upon the walls, each half defining, in the same vague way as all the others, the outline of the object it contained.

  45. He was followed by a small boy, who with some difficulty carried the 'cello in a big green baize bag.

  46. Ezra Gold, seizing the violin gently by the neck, suffered the green baize bag to fall to the ground at his feet, and then tenderly raising the instrument in both hands, looked up and dropped it to the ground.

  47. Reuben on first entering his uncle's house had laid the green baize bag upon the table.

  48. At this moment Reuben Gold came swinging along the road with a green baize bag under his arm.

  49. Each green baize bag was closely tied at the neck, and suspended at an equal height with the rest upon a nail.

  50. Mary mounted the red baize step and sat down beside the solitary one.

  51. A famous Viennese band played on a stage at one end, and around the sides were raised red baize seats for those who wanted to watch the dancing.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "baize" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    corduroy; cotton; fabric; nylon