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Example sentences for "clad figure"

  • Before they realised it the car was swerving into the drive of the Villa Firenze, whose door stood wide open, framing the butler's precise, black-clad figure.

  • Following the direction of the old man's eyes, Roger saw the black-clad figure of the maid at the first door along the passage.

  • Swiftly then Jo Ann's eyes flew to the still, white-clad figure lying on a mat on the ground.

  • The next moment, through an open space in the shelter, Jo Ann saw the white-clad figure of a boy stretched out on the floor.

  • They had not gone far till they spied the white-clad figure of Juan coming toward them.

  • Even as I spoke, however, I caught sight of the blue-clad figure of a patrolman pushing his way through the crowd along the curb.

  • By the time I had reached Fourth Avenue I again caught sight of the black-clad figure.

  • The faint light of the room swallowed up the lines of her black-clad figure, enisling the face in the unbroken gloom of a Rembrandt-like background, making it stand out as though it were luminous.

  • He, too, was looking from the sable-clad figure of Chauvelin to that of gorgeously arrayed Sir Percy.

  • Blakeney laughed his usual pleasant, somewhat shy laugh, shook his powerful frame and looked from his altitude of six feet three inches down on the small, sable-clad figure of ex-Ambassador Chauvelin.

  • In the doorway of the tent, framed by its gaudy draperies, and with the streaming sunshine as a brilliant background behind him, stood the sable-clad figure of Chauvelin.

  • Shaking his head, he glanced back for sight of a minute, suit-clad figure.

  • The black-clad figure spoke to one in yellow in a tone of pleased relief.

  • I glanced from the small, ill-clad figure of the new heiress sitting at the table with her carnations, through the open door into her bedroom with the pyramidal new trunks which had attracted their full share of glances this morning!

  • She (my mistress) seemed to gain confidence and poise as soon as she stood near the large, grey-clad figure of her American cousin.

  • A great glaring light, suspended from the ceiling, threw its rays directly down on a white-clad figure lying on a white metal operating table.

  • All during those six weeks he had been waiting for this hour when he should sit beside the little grey-clad figure, getting from her the help he wanted in the reconstruction of his life.

  • As he went through the quiet residence streets delivering the late evening papers, he threw back his head and revelled in the thought of a tall blue- clad figure on a great white horse passing like a knight before the gaping people.

  • Moving back he stood in front of the slender, rose-clad figure.

  • While, astonishment and levity, notwithstanding, Laurence was aware of a strong attraction drawing him towards the slender, rose-clad figure.

  • November morning, so will pomp and circumstance fade away into the past and leave thee with but one red-clad figure by thy side--that of the headsman with the axe.

  • The ghostly white-clad figure appeared as if turned to stone.

  • Some of them wished to watch it a little more closely, and began slowly strolling down the terrace steps, towards the quaint group made up of all these miserable vagrants surrounding the imposing, sable-clad figure of the Duke.

  • Among a closely packed throng bent on amusement the sombrely-clad figure of a young man, with the appearance of a student or of a journalist, would easily pass unperceived.

  • De Batz stood and watched him for as long as the dim lights of the street lamps illumined his slim, soberly-clad figure; then he turned on his heel and walked off in the opposite direction.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clad figure" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    clad figure; clad hills; clad mountains; clad slopes; commissioners appointed; done away; dull reddish; general causes; give every; hearted woman; hole stitch; human things; limited number; little cabin; nearly twice; nervous disease; never stopped; other considerations; perpendicular wall; proper quantity; really very; the tenth; thee good; three hundred and seventy; thy will