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Example sentences for "kapok"

Lexicographically close words:
kapes; kapi; kapital; kapitan; kapo; kapu; kar; karaka; karana; karat
  1. The person imprisoned with a kapok log may sit or lie down, but cannot stand or move, and often may be kept that way for years.

  2. Nag-atbu ang duldul sa unlan, The kapok flew out of the pillow.

  3. There is a belief that insanity can be cured by shackling a person’s ankles to a stock made of a kapok log.

  4. Who scattered the kapok all over the place?

  5. A; a12] fluff up cotton or kapok in preparation for further use.

  6. Mutangud ang mga kwaknit sa mga búlak sa duldul, Bats are attracted to the flowers of the kapok tree.

  7. Duldul na lay kúwang nímu, The only thing that can help you is a kapok stock.

  8. Ang unlan nagbuknul kay daghang pánit sa duldul, The pillow is lumpy because it has a lot of kapok peels.

  9. The kapok or cotton was used directly by the mice in constructing a hollow, compact, moundlike nest.

  10. On cold, humid nights in autumn numerous mice caught in Sherman live traps succumbed from exposure, even though nesting material (kapok or cotton) and food were in the traps.

  11. The cotton or kapok was used directly, but the burlap was shredded into a fine mass of fluffy fibers.

  12. Traps were carefully shaded and a ball of kapok was placed in each trap to provide protection against the killing temperatures that can develop inside.

  13. Kapok life-jackets were given out with strict instructions not to use them as pillows but we were not told how long they could remain in the water before they became waterlogged.

  14. Long life, however, should not be emphasized in selling a kapok mattress.

  15. Kapok mattresses are soft, are moisture and vermin proof, and are light and easy to handle.

  16. A tree cultivated in Java for the production of down; called in commerce kapok or "silk-cotton.

  17. Kapok has great resiliency and resistance to water.

  18. Packing the kapok into compartments adds to its durability.

  19. Kapok oil is produced from a tree which is extensively grown in the East and West Indies.

  20. Even prettier and more wonderfully made is the nest of the kapok bird, a little creature resembling a tom-tit.

  21. In the illustration showing kapok acting as a parasol for cacao in Java, we see that the proportion of shade trees to cacao is high.

  22. The fibers of Kapok are thin and transparent.

  23. The Kapok plant furnishes most of the commercial silk cotton on the market.

  24. Of late years our navy has utilized great quantities of kapok in making sea mattresses, which in emergency could be used as life rafts,--also jacket life preservers.

  25. Kapok is the product of a tropical American tree which was introduced into the Island of Java and there extensively cultivated.


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