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Example sentences for "napped"

Lexicographically close words:
napishtim; napkin; napkins; napless; napoleons; napping; naps; naptha; narcissi; narcissism
  1. The cull has napped a scalder; the fellow has got a clap.

  2. The blowen has napped a winder for a lift; the wench is transported for life for stealing in a shop.

  3. The blowen has napped the scold's cure; the bitch is in her coffin.

  4. He napped the king's pardon and escaped the morning drop; he was pardoned, and was not hanged.

  5. Judge Priest, sitting one seat to the rear of her, with Major Covington alongside him, napped lightly with his head against the hot red plush of the seat-back.

  6. The jail baked in the sunlight, silent as a brick tomb, which indeed it somewhat resembled; and on the wide portico of the courthouse a loafer dog of remote hound antecedents alternately napped and roused to snap at the buzzing flies.

  7. Chinchilla--A thick, heavy, double woven fabric with a long napped surface curled up into little tufs in imitation of chinchilla fur; used for coats.

  8. Empress cloth--A heavy dress goods with napped or corded surface, named for the Empress Eugenia; sometimes called Electrol cloth or Beretz.

  9. Moleskin--A medium heavy twilled cotton cloth, napped inside; used for men's wear and ornamental purposes.

  10. He napped and woke, napped and woke, a hundred times.

  11. The old people napped and woke and napped again, according to their habit.

  12. It is commonly twill woven, but is sometimes plain, finished with a slightly napped and lustrous face.

  13. This cloth is napped similar to a cotton flannel.

  14. Of the broadcloth range, made with shiny napped face, soft finish, as the pelt of a doe.

  15. Then the cloth is slightly napped and sheared down close, in order to produce a smooth, even surface.

  16. Having been napped and sheared, the cloth is pressed and carefully examined for defects, then brushed, pressed, and highly steamed.

  17. Miss Edith Worte turned her sparse face toward the down-town tide and against a light wind that tasted of rain and napped her skirts around her thin legs.

  18. Soon after a purchaser appeared inquiring for a beaver-napped hat.

  19. High hats were first napped with beaver fur, which material, being expensive, necessarily made costly hats.

  20. The hard road, velvet-napped with the spicy needles of centuries, winds through them and under them, the branches often touching the wayfarer's bared head.

  21. Out of them lifted and shone the green roof and domes of the church; more brilliantly above them, napped thick and soft as velvet, glowed the hills; and more lustrously against the saffron sky flashed the pearl of the higher peaks.

  22. And then, faintly but sharply outlined in the long-napped rug in front, appeared the print of a human shoe!

  23. At the top of their curving passage a doorway led them into a spacious room hung with soft, finely woven tapestries with a metallic lustre and furnished with deep-napped rugs and luxurious chairs and divans.

  24. This is particularly the case with napped hats, for when thus treated the fibre becomes much more brittle than before, and the nap soon breaks off round the square.

  25. The finishing of a napped hat, whether it be brush or beaver, is a very different process from that for either of those just described, requiring the nicest attention and patient perseverance by the best workmen.


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