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Example sentences for "pillows"

Lexicographically close words:
pillow; pillowcase; pillowed; pillowes; pillowing; pills; pilocarpin; pilocarpine; pilose; pilot
  1. Mrs. Gower, bring the rest of the pillows by and by.

  2. With womanly care, he arranged the pillows beneath the restless head of the invalid; drew the curtains to exclude the glaring light, totally unheeding the danger of contagion.

  3. Beside them stood a tremendous shaggy pile of coarsely woven objects that were the silk pillows on which they had been sitting a moment before--pillows that seemed forty or fifty feet square now and loomed high above their heads.

  4. The pillows were of lambs' wool, as good as the best pillows.

  5. We are all well, and I left the mother alternately peering out of the front window of our house and punching up the pillows on the couch in your library.

  6. The woman shrank back upon the pillows in a revival of her terror.

  7. Fixing it up as best he could, he made the injured man comfortable by shoring him with pillows and blankets, and he turned to Surrette.

  8. Dosed, rubbed with liniment and bandaged, Donald was shored by pillows and rolled up blankets into a cabin bunk and ordered to remain there for the rest of the day.

  9. Pauline was just giving a smoothing touch to the pillows when the door softly opened and who should come in but Kitty.

  10. Peeping through the partly-opened door, I could see the bed, its coverlet undisturbed, its pillows smooth and untouched.

  11. The iron journals of this horizontal axle revolve on pillows which are set in the centre of timbers.

  12. In it there are three little horizontal iron axles, which revolve in bearings or wide pillows of steel, and also four iron wheels, of which two are made with rundles and the same number are toothed.

  13. Beyond the first partition, in a darker room, there was an old bedstead with ugly looking comforters and pillows without cases.

  14. She carried the baby home in her arms, while her little sisters carried the pillows and other things.

  15. Then she flung out the pillows and wrappings, and ran the carriage to the brow of the canal-bank.

  16. And as I spoke I settled my pillows comfortably, getting a little thrill from the crumpled letter underneath the bottom one.

  17. Eileen settled deeper among her pillows as the table was removed, and Selwyn drew his chair forward.

  18. Memories, insurgent, turned on him to stab him; and he shrank from them, cowering among his pillows at midnight.

  19. Rising, he bent quickly over her, but before he touched her she had fallen back upon the pillows and lay with her arch smile frozen upon her face.

  20. The old lady, shrivelled and faded as the dried goldenrod which filled the great jars on the hearth, lay half hidden among the pillows in her high white bed, her vacant eyes fixed upon the sunshine which fell through the little window.

  21. The old lady, inspired by her indomitable energy, was already dressed for the day in her black brocade, and sat bolt upright among the pillows in her great oak chair.

  22. Cynthia's only answer was to smooth gently the pillows in the old lady's chair.

  23. I spread out one rug carefully and arranged my pillows upon it for comfort, just as calmly as if I had made the trip often.

  24. Now, listen to me," she continued after a deft fluffing of his pillows and a careful tucking in of the netting.

  25. He leaped at Uske as the King threw himself face down into the mound of pillows and tried to scream at the same time.

  26. King Uske, who had just turned twenty-one though he had been the official ruler of Toromon since the age of seven, jammed his pale blond head beneath three over-stuffed pillows that lay about the purple silken sheets of his bed.

  27. As for broken columns and flower pillows with appropriately regretful remarks let into them in purple immortelle letterings, and gates ajar--why, they were evident in a profusion almost past individual recording.

  28. You mustn't talk about that," said his wife, straightening the pillows at his back.

  29. There were tasselled pillows and counterpanes heavily perfumed, and canopies and curtains embroidered with armories or sprinkled with stars.

  30. On one side it was as if feather pillows loomed above her with intent to smother; on the other, sharp elbows came into distressing contact with her ribs.

  31. For in the settle was my Lorna, propped with pillows round her, and her clear hands spread sometimes to the blazing fireplace.

  32. Preoccupied, still conscious of the lingering sense of uneasiness, he turned on his pillows and looked out of the window.

  33. Tomasa was infirm of foot; so they propped her with pillows in a little cart, and drew her to the house that she might not miss of the occasion.

  34. It was almost insulting to have her assist him to his attitude of contempt, and to prop him in it with pillows behind his back.

  35. The girl went whiter than her pillows and half closed her eyes; but Rose, who would have been terrified at the sight of an elderly farmer, was buoyantly relieved and at her ease.

  36. The ward understood, and was perfectly good, trying hard not to muss its pillows or wrinkle the covers.

  37. Marcy looked at the pillows that were flung upon the floor, and saw that there were dark stains on both of them.

  38. Hardly realizing what he was doing, Marcy threw off the bedclothes and sat up; and as he did so, the man who had turned up the lamp snatched the pillows from the bed and took possession of the brace of revolvers he found under them.

  39. When Marcy went up to his room he took his pillows from the floor, and put them on the bed where they belonged.

  40. And then the doctors ordered my visitors away, and I sank among my pillows into a state of semi-consciousness.

  41. But there were no washing arrangements whatever, or mattresses or bedding; for every traveller in Siberia is expected to carry his own pillows and bedclothes.


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