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Example sentences for "cinnet"

Lexicographically close words:
cingulum; cinis; cinnabar; cinnamic; cinnamon; cinq; cinquante; cinquefoil; cinquefoiled; cint
  1. His hands were free, but a stout rope of cinnet was tied around his naked waist and Pulu held the end.

  2. As I drew near I saw that there were about twenty men seated inside, smoking, card playing, or making cinnet for fishing lines by twisting up the strands of coco-nut fibre on their naked thighs.

  3. They were safe, for each one had around his neck a cord of black cinnet interwoven with the hair of a sea-ghost.

  4. We dried them by hanging them on long lines of coir cinnet between the coco-palms of a little island half a mile from our camp.

  5. The upper part of the body was raised; the face was bent forwards to meet the knees; the hands were put under the hams and passed up between the knees; then head, hands, and knees were bound together with cinnet or cord.

  6. Cinnet is likely long to prevail in native canoe and boat-building.

  7. It is through this ledge or rim they bored the holes, and with a few turns of cinnet sewed tight one board to the other.

  8. In one might be seen a conch shell, suspended from the roof in a basket made of cinnet network; and this the god was supposed to blow when he wished the people to rise to war.

  9. From stem to stern there is not a nail; everything is fastened in their ancient style, with cinnet plaited from the fibre of the cocoa-nut husk.


  10. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cinnet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.