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Example sentences for "oleographs"

Lexicographically close words:
oleic; olein; oleine; oleo; oleograph; oleomargarine; oleracea; oles; oleum; olfactive
  1. The room was decorated with wooden "art-nouveau" chairs, oleographs and an extremely bad oil painting of a bull with banderillas shedding much blood.

  2. On the unpainted wooden walls near the oleographs flies were slumbering.

  3. After the huge empty room with columns, I felt, as it were, at home in this small snug house where there were no oleographs on the walls and where the servants were spoken to with civility.

  4. He tried to compare them with the French and the Italians, but the idea of those races somehow roused in him the notion of organ-grinders, naked women, and the foreign oleographs which hung over the chest of drawers in his aunt's house.

  5. She led him to a parlour--a pitiable parlour, with atrocious oleographs on drab walls, and two mottled vases on a dirty mantelpiece.

  6. Until her appearance he walked restlessly from the fireplace to the farthest window, stopping to look at the uninviting oleographs on the wall, inspecting the row of David Rosser's novels which filled the hanging shelf.

  7. Wandering about the room, Jimmy looked at one or two of the oleographs on the light-papered walls, and presently his eyes rested on the hanging bookshelf.

  8. He looked at the fringed cloth upon the table, the framed oleographs upon the wall, and he was absolutely compelled to close his eyes.

  9. She keeps the house very clean, pins up the oleographs presented to us at Christmas time by the grocer and the oil-man, and thinks I look genteel in a silk hat when we walk out to hear the band in the public gardens on Thursday evenings.

  10. He spat in the fire-place, mercilessly criticized the oleographs on the walls, and loudly expressed his contempt for the mahogany furniture.

  11. The oleographs were views of Heidelberg and of the Kiel Canal.

  12. The only ornaments in the room, if ornaments they could be called, were faded photographs and two oleographs in gilt frames.


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