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Example sentences for "mantlet"

Lexicographically close words:
mantis; mantle; mantled; mantlepiece; mantles; mantlets; mantling; mantlings; manto; mantra
  1. His doublet and hose were of palest pink; his bonnet, shoes, and mantlet of cypress-green velvet.

  2. And did the voices bid thee wear a velvet mantlet and roses to thy shoes?

  3. To afford him some kind of protection a large mantlet was part of the equipment, and in a combat a mantlet and a gun were placed alternately.

  4. Their Habits were Mantles of White Damask lin’d with Carnation, and the Mantlet of the same.

  5. For their Habit they wore Mantles of Red or Crimson Velvet, and a Mantlet of White, with the Lining and Surcoat of the same.

  6. This last accident, however, proved beneficial; for the inclined position thus given to the mantlet caused the immense masses that had been cast down upon it to roll off; and the squire rose from his knee with a lightened burden.

  7. But his chief attention still turned towards De Coucy, who was seen advancing rapidly under the immense mantlet of wood he had caused to be constructed, on which the arrows, the bolts, and the stones from the slings fell in vain.

  8. He had caused a mantlet to be built for him which was brought up to the edge of the ditch with which the town was surrounded.

  9. At the mantlet they aimed bolts from a strong engine which they had newly put in place, and by ill luck broke it through.

  10. An hour or so after noon, when the cat had been brought close to the wall, and the mantlet was in its accustomed place, some fifty yards distant, the Turks made an attack on both at the same moment of time.


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