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Example sentences for "denim"

Lexicographically close words:
denier; deniers; denies; deniest; denieth; denique; denizen; denizens; denk; denke
  1. Most of these were wearing blue denim suits of overall stuff, though a few were clad in khaki.

  2. A blue-denim trooper came into the room and stood at attention.

  3. Turn a fold two inches greater than this depth the entire length of the denim or other material and make a long bag.

  4. It can be made of quilted padding bound with tape, or of two thicknesses of outing flannel covered with percale or denim and bound with tape or braid.

  5. From the remaining denim or other material make a round, flat bag (the material will have to be pieced for this).

  6. Tack strips of denim or other material so that they will cover all the spaces that are filled with sawdust.

  7. They drew up to the dining-room table with its cover of blue denim edged with white cord, and Condy unrolled his manuscript and read through what he had written.

  8. She dropped on her knees, a blue denim angel on a cloud, praying higher.

  9. This denim is all I've got," she said, with a touch of defiance.

  10. The street is very quiet, but half-way down the block I can see a Jap gardener in brown denim sedately watering a well-barbered terrace.

  11. Before supper-time Peter was back in high spirits, with the needed new parts for the windmill, and an outfit of blue denim apparel for himself, and a little red sweater for Dinkie, and an armful of magazines for myself.

  12. Orivie, handsomely dressed in wrinkled denim trousers, a yellow pareu and an aged straw hat, mounted the beast, and bidding farewell to the friends I had made, we began to climb the trail through the village.

  13. Against the jungle background he was a strangely incongruous figure; a Frenchman, small, thin, meticulously neat in garments of faded blue denim and shining high boots.

  14. In preparing the woof it will be necessary to cut the denim on a true bias into strips from 1/2 to 3/4 of an inch wide.

  15. The effect of a ceiled-up wall or of a dado may be easily obtained by stretching burlap or denim over the studding or over a backing of inexpensive sheathing.

  16. Denim in moss or forest green makes a rug fit for a queen.

  17. Polatkin came from behind the rack and automatically proceeded to the office, while Scheikowitz peeped out of the denim curtains.

  18. Gray Denim By Harl Vincent The blood of the Van Dorn's ran in Karl's veins.

  19. A sergeant of the red police looked up startled from his desk as a tall youth in the gray denim of forty levels below appeared before him.

  20. His jacket of gray denim hung loosely from his spare frame and his hollow cough bespoke a deep-seated ailment.

  21. Cooper Square, in the year 2108, was the one gathering place in New York City where the wearers of the gray denim were permitted to assemble and discuss their grievances publicly.

  22. A suit of gray denim awaited him there and he'd never discard it.

  23. She wafted a heap of soiled dishes into a basin in the cupboard, deftly concealed the stove behind a Japanese screen, and then converted the washtubs into a table by covering them with a pretty denim cloth.

  24. His inamorata, ensconced in state in her favorite armchair, was tacking a blue denim smock together with bits of fancy colored worsteds.

  25. But the denim cover blotted out iniquity, on the principle that what the eye can't see, the heart don't grieve!

  26. Brown denim which was required by regulations was a material hard to get, blue denim being the standard fabric for American overalls, and consequently heavy gray goods and drills were dyed olive-drab and put into use.

  27. Denim was used particularly in making working clothes for the soldiers.

  28. A standard pattern layout was drawn for the overall makers with consequent large savings of cloth in the manufacture of brown denim fatigue clothing, or soldiers' working clothes.

  29. Denim or burlap may also be used as a covering and are much less expensive than the leather.

  30. A fine big gentleman in a new pink shirt with a diamond, and not no washed-out blue denim working-shirt.

  31. The big woman, whose denim skirt and blouse suggested the overalls of a day laborer, was bending over a small cooking stove whereon was frying some bacon and eggs.

  32. Then she turned away, but Dorothy reached forward, caught the blue denim skirt, and demanded: "Tell me where my mother is?

  33. He wore a loose blue denim blouse and trousers which flapped about his bare feet.

  34. It was only natural for them to wish to be in Tessie's silver slippers with a frizzle-headed native in blue denim to hold a shining ax behind them.

  35. This prospered, and the house itself built a denim mill at the same place.

  36. It was attempted to persuade a mill at Durham, North Carolina to increase its denim output, but this was not done.

  37. They wear uniforms of blue denim with simple hats and coats, but not of uniform design.

  38. A simple home window tent, and one which can be made easily in the homes of the poor, consists of a straight piece of denim or canvas hung from the top of the window casing and attached to the outer side of the bed.

  39. Blue denim had its hold upon public use principally for the reason that it possessed a colour superior to all the chances and accidents of its varied life.

  40. Many of our ordinary cotton manufactures are strong and inexpensive, and a few of them have the flexibility which denim lacks.

  41. The variety of blue domestic which is called denim is the best of all fabrics for this kind of furnishing, if the colour is not too dark.

  42. From under his denim jumper, Pablo brought forth a pint of claret.

  43. You go over to the store room yonder and get a flannel shirt and a pair of denim pants to pull on over those you're wearing.

  44. She was a comely-faced woman, of perhaps forty-five, neatly dressed in a denim suit.

  45. They were dressed in loose blue denim trousers with shirts of the same, fastening at the side over them, their front hair closely shaven, and the rest gathered into pigtails, which were wound several times round their heads.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "denim" 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