A man had entered the kitchen, a big man, wearing a cloth cap, and carrying in one hand a lumpy oilcloth valise.
His heels struck theoilcloth with sharp, quick thumps.
Iron bridge tables, covered with oilcloth, and with oilcloth pouches for the cards and score pads, so there's never any bother about scurrying in with things on account of rain.
Two fishermen in oilcloth trowsers, very scaly and rattling, were drawing up their boat, laden to the water's edge with gaspereaux, all alive and kicking.
She had oilcloth on her kitchen to save the floor, and oilcloth mats to save the oilcloth; yet Jerry's boots had to be taken off in the shed, and he was required to walk through in his stocking feet.
I brought a few yards of oilcloth to-day and they will be safe and dry if it pours.
With an oilcloth and blankets he returned to camp and throughout the night tended the buckets and boiling sap, and worked or dozed by the fire between times.
He pulled an oilcloth sheet over the bed, and lay breathing deeply of the damp, perfumed air as he again slept.
So the next day was when we'd know, and at noon Swatty came over to my barn to get some oilcloth we had in the barn to put in his pants so the licking wouldn't hurt so much, and I guessed I would win the bet.
But he couldn't fix the oilcloth so it would do any good and let him sit down.
Put a white oilcloth on kitchen shelves instead of paper.
If you have a highly polished dining table which you are afraid of spoiling, lay a piece of oilcloth on the table under the pad and you will have no trouble.
When soiled the oilcloth is slipped out and wiped off with a damp cloth, and the linen case goes with the tablecloth and napkin.
Strips of moulding may be tacked around the edges of a room at the baseboard, so as to cover the edge of oilcloth or linoleum.
Several of these cases will be needed, for the ordinary enterprising baby, but one piece of oilcloth will be sufficient for a long time.
A clever device for this purpose is made of two oblong pieces of butcher's linen sewed together in the form of a case, with an oilcloth interlining.
He covered the packages in the back seat with an oilcloth and drove forward to meet the storm.
Jimmie Dale replaced the flooring, carefully brushed the dust back into the cracks, spread the oilcloth into place, and stood up.
Jimmie Dale lifted a corner of the oilcloth in a corner of the room, lifted a piece of the flooring, lifted out a little box which he placed upon the rickety table, and sat down before a cracked mirror.
The oilcloth in the corner was turned back, the loose flooring lifted, the clothes of Jimmie Dale taken out, the rags of Larry the Bat put in.
He stopped in the centre and looked at the ashes overflowing the hearth of the greasy range, at the unwashed frying-pan on the dirty floor, at the remains of Jim's lunch that littered the shabby oilcloth on the table.
When it was ready he placed it on the clammy oilcloth and sat down.
Instead, he folded his arms upon the oilcloth in the space he had made and dropping his forehead upon his ragged shirt-sleeve, he cried.
The minute they got inside the little front room she dropped down in a heap on the oilcloth and sobbed in a wild hysterical way that shook her poor little body all over.
Then we spread theoilcloth and lay down for another sleep.
White table oilcloth makes a good covering, and comes specially prepared with a fancy border for that purpose.
Why not substitute for it the white marbled oilcloth which produces much the same effect, and can be smoothly fitted if a little glue is added to the paste with which it is put on?
Then they heard the door swing back and heard Nelson's bare feet go scraping over the cold oilcloth and his teeth chattering.
The can slipped out of his hands and went skimming across the oilcloth floor.
I remember that night when we turned off the road into woods partially cleared with the brush piled, I spread my blanket on one of the piles of brush, with a Yankee oilcloth over me, and slept soundly till morning.
She bobbed up from her seat, bringing the oilcloth bag with her, and towering over Janice Day in a most startling manner.
Janice, as the man pitched the oilclothbag into the cart, and turned back toward the house again.
Janice Day, staring with all her might at the odd-looking creature perched thus on the steps, with a bulging old-fashioned black oilcloth bag beside her.
Stage had passed long since and the mail lay at her place, where the German had spread a white square above the oilcloth of the long bench table; but letters and papers remained unopened.
So Ambrose paced the sticky oilcloth this morning as a man who has reached the hill of decision.
The oilcloth covering was a great incumbrance; it had been made for a much stouter man, and, standing upright after my submersion, my legs occupied the centre of two bags of water.
She had not dared to wash those august shelves with soda, nor to fasten her favourite strips of white oilcloth along their shining surfaces.
Entering the hall, he hung his hat on the walnut hat-rack in the dark corner behind the door, and followed the worn strip of blue and red oilcloth which ran up the narrow staircase to the floor above.
Better get in now," Mr. Harley told them, holding up the oilcloth so that they could creep in under the door-roof.
Bobby, feeling in his pocket for a nail to pin the oilcloth more securely, touched the queer object his shovel had unearthed that morning.
Here's a piece of oilclothwe can use for a curtain to shut the lightning out.
While he spoke, he had lifted what had once been the front door of his house, placed it across two barrels and draped across the open side a large square of oilcloth that was cracked and creased in many places but still waterproof.
Mr. Harley lifted the oilcloth flap, and the four little Blossoms felt a refreshing breeze sweep in upon them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oilcloth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
