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Example sentences for "flannelette"

Lexicographically close words:
flankers; flanking; flanks; flannel; flanneled; flannelled; flannels; flap; flapdoodle; flapjack
  1. She could look out tabbily from above a lap of handiwork, but in her boudoir wrapper of gray flannelette scalloped in black she was scrawny, almost rangy, like a horse whose ribs show.

  2. The flash of his mother's gray-flannelette wrapper turned a corner of the hall.

  3. Dora's flannelette petticoat had been got off somehow--how I do not seek to inquire--and the Secret was covered with it.

  4. I thought I'd take off my flannelette petticoat, only the horrid strings got into a hard knot.

  5. Alice turned down the pink flannelette petticoat with silly pride, and showed the youthful heir fatly and pinkly sleeping.

  6. The tawdry fluffiness of most of our women's dress and hair seemed like flannelette beside rich satin as compared with her.

  7. In the mine his entire costume had consisted of a striped flannelette shirt, very short, and a stand-up white collar!

  8. If that is all, Letitia, if there is nothing more than that to account for red flannelette at six o'clock, I am immensely thankful.

  9. Flannelette is made largely on the continent of Europe, and in the United States as well as in Great Britain.

  10. How should the voltage be regulated during the first charge?

  11. The tube is drawn from a perforated ribbon of steel, nickel plated, and reinforced with eight steel bands, equidistant apart, which prevent the tube expanding away from and breaking contact with its contents.

  12. Overalls, ready-made breeches, babies' socks, and pink flannelette mysteries hung doubled up as if in pain over strings nailed to the rafters.

  13. And by twisting my head a little I was able to see the two wire bassinets, side by side, each holding a little mound of something wrapped in a flannelette blanket.

  14. Miss Lydia was propped up on two pillows, an open book before her on the patchwork quilt, and her head had sagged forward on the breast of her blue flannelette nightgown.

  15. To the early clattering of that faithful chariot of daybreak, the milk-wagon, and with the April dawn quivering and flushing over the roofs of houses, Mrs. Binswanger rose from her restless couch and into a black flannelette wrapper.

  16. Hattie Krakow ran her hand over her smooth salt-and-pepper hair and sold a marked-down flannelette petticoat.

  17. A long flannel or flannelette nightdress is used in this, instead of the blanket.

  18. Flannelette should never be used, being so very inflammable (see Children's Dangers).

  19. That is, if the kiddy is thirty inches from the floor to the chin you cut your flannelette sixty inches long.

  20. The girls were already spreading out the pink and blue flannelette on a plank table that had been left in the attic by the carpenters who had built the house.


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