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Example sentences for "flannel"

Lexicographically close words:
flanke; flanked; flankers; flanking; flanks; flanneled; flannelette; flannelled; flannels; flap
  1. So I wrapped myself up in a warm flannel wrapper and sat down on the foot of her bed with my feet drawn up under me.

  2. Without the least compunction Racey tucked this letter into the breast pocket of his flannel shirt.

  3. From the breast pocket of her boy's gray flannel shirt she produced a long, narrow strip of white to which appeared to be fastened a small dark object.

  4. Now he was clean-shaven and attired in nothing but a flannel shirt.

  5. He had stripped off his red flannel jacket, and lay with shirt opened to the waist, to get the breeze against his heart.

  6. He wears a red flannel shirt and tarpaulin hat; and possesses a bull-dog countenance expressive of the utmost ferocity.

  7. Dorothy took the faded blue flannel shirt and overalls he held out to her.

  8. Dressed in the overalls, flannel shirt and heavy wool socks of the night before, she looked particularly bright and cheerful.

  9. Then she lifted the little nightgown and looked at the pink feet nestling in their flannel wrapping.

  10. As soon as she was alone she laid back the flannel which lay round the child's head, and examined every inch of its downy poll and puckered face, her warm breath making the tiny lips twitch in sleep as it travelled across them.

  11. He was roughly dressed and wore a blue flannel shirt and a cap.

  12. He stooped down, and after a good deal of selection cut a splendid aromatic clove-pink, and handed it smiling to the boy, who smelt it and placed it in the button-hole of his loose flannel jacket.

  13. Here; Betsey, bring your flannel and wipe up this mess.

  14. Why, if a conger could bite through a line, what would he think of flannel trousers?

  15. For Rhinah, his wife, he ordered enough flannel blankets for two families.

  16. He sent him enough cochineal flannel for his rheumatism to wrap him four-ply deep.

  17. He found a light flannel coat and I flung it over his shoulders and pulled for Glenarm pier, telling the Japanese boy to follow with the canoe.

  18. Arthur thrust his hands into the side pockets of his flannel jacket and nodded his head once or twice.

  19. A man appeared in shirt-sleeves of grey flannel and wheeled my boxes away on a little truck, and after a while a master came down and showed us, in a perfunctory manner, over the more presentable quarters of the school.

  20. Almost at my feet is a knapsack, ripped open and revealing a card of small china buttons, a new red handkerchief, a gray-striped flannel shirt, a pencil and a sheaf of writing paper.

  21. The men were buying tobacco and candy with what money they had left, were showing each other new boots and gloves and blue flannel shirts.

  22. He wore a flannel cap and duck trousers, and the sleeves of his white flannel shirt were rolled back to the elbow.

  23. His shrunken brown flannel dress had been washed many times and left a long stretch of stocking between the hem of his skirt and the tops of his clumsy, copper-toed shoes.

  24. And each time Simon caught sight of her red flannel petticoat, and, faint, half-awakened objections stirring beneath his sprouting horns, came back to challenge the goading colour and butt her crossly in the skirts.

  25. Over his red flannel shirt he wore a tunic or blouse, also of buckskin, fringed the length of the arms, and belted at the waist like a hunting-shirt.

  26. Outside of Chicago, he had shed his Eastern garb for blue flannel shirt, dark breeches, and tall boots.

  27. The untidy hair escaped from beneath the broad-brimmed old hat, and his faded coat of grey flannel seemed touched with the shadows that the dusk brings beneath wild-olive trees.

  28. Never, I think, did I see him in anything but that old grey flannel suit, with the low collar and shabby glistening tie.

  29. His old grey flannel suit hung literally upon a bag of bones; all the life there was seemed concentrated in his face and eyes--those far-seeing, light blue eyes.

  30. Darling, I am sending you the flannel dear hope you will get it alright.

  31. It must have been, for the speaker was simply attired in a flannel shirt.

  32. Yessir, and so's most of our flannel shirts and stiff collars.

  33. He halted some paces off and glared from his wife's diaphanous costume to the workman in his rough clothes and flannel shirt.

  34. Instead of catching his throat, the panther's fanged jaws closed on the upper part of his left arm, while her forepaws gripped his shoulders, which were protected by a khaki coat and flannel shirt.

  35. This he wound around the boy's neck, so that it swung gleaming against his gray flannel shirt.

  36. In her hand she carried a small bundle of red flannel cloth freshly cut from the bolt.

  37. A man in khaki breeches and flannel shirt and high lace boots came and waved them back.

  38. I told her I did not know, and she would not be satisfied till I went to his room and found that the linen coat was hanging in the closet, and the gray flannel one was missing.

  39. The flannel one will do very well, and my boy will be comfortable.

  40. He would tie up his face with a wisp of flannel and sit hugging the cat for ten minutes at a time.

  41. Long years ago in his own arms there had been laid a tiny bundle of flannel holding a precious little red, puckered face.

  42. More and more sorrowfully during past years, his thoughts had gone back to the little white flannel bundle and to the dear hopes it had carried so long ago.

  43. His whiskers had not had time to grow, and he even wore the same flannel jacket he had on at the athletic sports in May.

  44. The evaporation of the water from the flannel cools the food somewhat below the temperature of the surrounding air.

  45. An iceless refrigerator may be made from a rectangular frame of wood, to which heavy canton flannel is buttoned or tacked.

  46. A few things may be kept cool, like a bottle of milk and a small dish of butter, by setting them in a shallow pan of water and covering them with a flannel cloth which comes down into the water and so remains moist (Fig.


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