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Example sentences for "plaid"

Lexicographically close words:
plaguey; plaguily; plaguing; plaguy; plaice; plaide; plaided; plaidie; plaids; plaie
  1. That is an old deuice, and it was plaid When I from Thebes came last a Conqueror Lis.

  2. Now my Lord, you plaid once i'th' Vniuersity, you say?

  3. Twenty to one then, he is ship'd already, And I haue plaid the Sheepe in loosing him Pro.

  4. O perdurable shame, let's stab our selues: Be these the wretches that we plaid at dice for?

  5. I that's a colt indeede, for he doth nothing but talke of his horse, and hee makes it a great appropriation to his owne good parts that he can shoo him himselfe: I am much afraid my Ladie his mother plaid false with a Smyth Ner.

  6. Yes, a dozen: and as many to'th' vantage, as would store the world they plaid for.

  7. So Bassianus, you haue plaid your prize, God giue you ioy sir of your Gallant Bride Bass.

  8. A Scotch plaid is a shawl or scarf woven in different colors.

  9. The mountaineer wrapped his plaid around him.

  10. It was at the minister’s donation party that Hannah planted another thorn in her heart,—Hannah, in a green plaid silk with delicate undersleeves of lace, and a tiny black velvet jacket.

  11. The plaid danced before his eyes, became a signal flag, and, watching it, he drowsed and then fell into the profound sleep which means recovery.

  12. He heard the voices of Molly and the doctor, heard her pretty Irish accent, half-opened his eyes and saw her hat and plaid red-and-black shawl hanging by the window.

  13. The deficient buttons on his plaid frock had evidently been supplied from one of Mr. Jellyby's coats, they were so extremely brazen and so much too large.

  14. Throwing the plaid over his shoulders, the young count turned in the direction of the woods, whose tall beech-trees covered the sides of a small hillock.

  15. Teressa was the next person to arrive, and to Lull's relief she wore her own well-known green plaid shawl.

  16. Teressa was in the kitchen too, wiping her eyes on the corner of her old plaid shawl.

  17. She clasped her hands helplessly, and the next moment Allan was taking the wet plaid off her head and shoulders, and whispering, as he did so, all the fond words which he had so long restrained.

  18. She wrapped her plaid around her and almost fled to the thick laurel shrubbery.

  19. In a few minutes she pushed open the cottage door; and her wet rosy face, in the dark green folds of the plaid over her head, had a vivid distinctness.

  20. Very soon Davie loomed through the fog, and throwing a plaid about her, said, "What for did you go near the boat, Maggie?

  21. She was a tall, thin woman, dressed in homespun linsey, with a ruffled linen cap upon her head, and a faded tartan plaid about her shoulders.

  22. She folded her plaid around her head and shoulders and went out.

  23. And that was a face looking over the height of the yew hedge--a face wrapped about the mouth with a grey plaid and with a grey brimmed hat pulled close down over the eyes.

  24. I could see my friend of the beckoning hand now standing erect with his plaid about him.

  25. That was certain, for she wore her plaid shawl.

  26. Her plaid shawl had been left to her by her grandmother, and she never put it on except when she was afflicted with a cold.

  27. See," she said, and lightly turned him round so that his back was shown, with his plaid no longer concealing the absence of a button from a skirt of his Highland jacket.

  28. He had seen the bulge of the dagger below Macnaughton's plaid, and the plaid itself had not been drawn too closely round the wearer to conceal wholly the unaccountable fact that he had a Highland dress beneath it.

  29. Putting punctilio in his pocket, he threw open his door, and had before him a much-perplexed Baron of Doom, wrapped from neck to heel in a great plaid of sombre tartan and carrying a candle!

  30. We shall be disturbed here, monsieur," said Count Victor, hesitating as the other put off his plaid and coat.

  31. The dark green-and-blue tartan of the house well became him: he wore diced hose of silk and a knife on the calf of his leg; his plaid swung from a stud at the shoulder, and fell in voluminous and graceful folds behind him.

  32. The first of his acts was to throw off a plaid that muffled his shoulders; then he snapped a futile pistol, and fell back upon his sword, with which he laid out lustily.

  33. Malcolm himself saw to his perfect equipment, heedful specially that his kilt and plaid should be of Duncan's own tartan of red and blue and green.

  34. There he seated her in a comfortable chair, and wrapped her in the plaid he had brought for the purpose.

  35. On days of grand ceremonial this is exchanged for a long, flowing gown, the hem and elbow-sleeves edged with fringe, and draped with big cotton handkerchiefs in vivid plaid designs.

  36. Or as we once sported vpon a fellowes name who was called Woodcock, and for an ill part he had plaid entreated fauour by his friend.

  37. In this quarrelling figure we once plaid this merry Epigrame of an importune and shrewd wife, thus: My neighbour hath a wife, not fit to make him thriue, But good to kill a quicke man, or make a dead reuiue.

  38. If the late King of England did not approve of my Conduct in the Affairs of Nimeguen, which in effect he declared in publick not to be pleased with, in which he plaid his part to admiration, &c.

  39. Warm as the day was he wore a broad tie of plaid silk arranged in a bow, above which a white muslin collar rose to his ears.

  40. She pinned an old plaid shawl around the Rich Man's waist!

  41. It would have been easier if he hadn't tripped so often on his plaid shawl skirt!

  42. He burst a safety-pin that helped lash the plaid shawl around him.

  43. Plaid Basey mats are on sale in nearly all the Chinese general merchandise stores of Manila.

  44. Basey mats are of two general kinds: those with plaid designs woven in and those on which the designs are embroidered.

  45. The time necessary for making a plaid mat sold for two pesos was found to be as follows, an eight-hour day being used as the basis of a day's work: Days.

  46. With a deft turn he brought the weighted end of the plaid up under his arm so there would be no betraying drag.

  47. He hustled the old shepherd out of his dripping plaid and greatcoat and spread them to the blaze.

  48. The lassie draped a fragment of an old plaid deftly over her thinly clad shoulders, climbed through the window, to the pediment of the classic tomb that blocked it, and dropped into the kirkyard.

  49. A stranger Piramus, then ere plaid here This.

  50. Indeed hee hath plaid on his Prologue, like a childe on a Recorder, a sound, but not in gouernment Thes.

  51. At times he wore his fishing-suit, at other times he had on a knickerbocker suit of shepherd's plaid with a domino pattern neglige shirt.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plaid" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    check; checkerboard; checkered; corduroy; cotton; fabric; harlequin; mosaic; nylon; parquet; patchwork; plaid; tartan; tessera