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Example sentences for "pleated"

Lexicographically close words:
pleasureable; pleasured; pleasures; pleasuring; pleat; pleating; pleats; plebe; plebeian; plebeians
  1. Marianne was furtively thrusting some food into the pocket of her pleated gown.

  2. One day he caught sight of the handsome Italian girl, with bare feet in the sand, red skirt tightly pleated around her, and unbleached linen sleeves tucked up to the shoulders, catching eels out of a large gleaming wet net.

  3. I reckon you hadn't reached that building before she remembered that your skirt should have been pleated instead of gathered, your shoes been low, and lighter for hot September weather, and a new hat.

  4. I know that skirts should be pleated to the band instead of gathered, and full enough to sit in, and short enough to walk in.

  5. Elderly gentlemen content themselves with plain-pleated shirt-fronts and white ties, indulging even in wearing their watches in the old way, as fashion has reintroduced the short vest-chain so long banished.

  6. Men wore long tunics open at the neck and filled in with pleated linen and enormous puffed sleeves.

  7. Then she gathered it between her fingers, and MacVeigh watched her while she divided it into shining strands and pleated it into a big braid.

  8. He did not dare to speak while he smoothed out the rich tresses and pleated them into a braid.

  9. She began to bounce up and down on the seat of the carriage, the accordion-pleated skirts of her new pink frock billowing round her.

  10. Nothing can be in worse taste than crepe which is gathered and ruched and puffed and pleated and made into waterfalls, and imitation ostrich feathers as a garnishing for a hat.

  11. The accessories are a pleated shirt, with turndown stiff collar, and black bow tie, or even an unstarched shirt with collar attached (white of course).

  12. There is a small standing collar of buff cloth, and a falling cravat of pleated cream-colored lace worn in front.

  13. He was not very tall, he had a closely trimmed light beard that was growing a little gray, he wore a soft hat something like Ephraim's, a black tie on a white pleated shirt, and his eyeglasses were pinned to his vest.

  14. The growth in length of the small intestine has necessitated a corresponding lengthening of the attached border of the mesentery--consequently the membrane presents a pleated or crenated appearance.

  15. Consequently the tube now appears coiled and convoluted, and the mesentery, as it is attached to the gut, of necessity follows all the twists and appears fluted or pleated in its distal attached portion.

  16. V-shaped to show a vest of pleated linen, the sleeves being plain with linen cuffs, the apron of linen, and the cloth hood and cape cut in one piece.

  17. The tight short skirt is of dark wool with a scolloped border of red and yellow, and a narrow pleated apron is in a dull shade of tangerine.

  18. The peasants of French Flanders wear short full petticoats, and a jacket laced up the front, gold ear-rings and a golden cross being conspicuous features of their costume, which includes a black bib and a cap with a pleated border.

  19. It comprises tight embroidered trousers to the ankles, plainly visible through a short skirt of transparent texture held at the waist by a girdle from which hangs a narrow white muslin apron, pleated and bordered with gold.

  20. The pointed slippers curved up at the toes and left the heels exposed, and the pleated robe of transparent muslin terminated at the calf.

  21. A plain full woollen petticoat was in vogue, and the sleeves were turned back with pleated cuffs, the option in headgear being allowed between a close hood or kerchief and a plain hat of straw.

  22. He describes it as being a bodice cut down the front and displaying in the intervals left by the lacings, very wide apart, a transparent tissue of the chemise elaborately pleated and embroidered in gold and silver.

  23. The peaked hood is lined with satin and weighted with a heavy silk tassel, and over the shoulders falls a short, pleated cape.

  24. Miss Letty Lind first wore the accordion-pleated dancing skirt, and Miss Jessie Milward popularised the lawn-embroidered collars and cuffs.

  25. This meant more worry for Cinderella, for it was she who ironed her sisters' linen, goffered their tucks and frills, pleated their wristbands, pressed their trimmings of old lace and wrapped them away in tissue paper.

  26. She wore a dark green silk pleated down the front, from underneath which a patent-leather boot peeped as she walked; a short jacket showed the drawing of her shoulders, the delicacy of her waist, and the graceful fall of the hips.

  27. The women, with their green, violet or red shawls and much-pleated short skirts, generally blue, afforded particularly gay patches of colour.

  28. The women were garbed in ample pleated skirts.

  29. She was clad from head to foot in doublet and pleated skirt of gray Scots cloth, woven both of them by that very worthy man and elder in the Kirk, William Edgar of Rhonehouse.

  30. On other sealings we find a single overskirt with a pleated underskirt.

  31. A goffered shirt-front worn with evening dress is the mark of a foreigner in London, but some few men venture to clothe themselves for the evening in a shirt whose front is pleated and but slightly starched.

  32. Often the left arm had a short sleeve while the right was bare, but flowing sleeves came into use and various pleated skirts became customary.

  33. The neck of the gown, cut low and square, showed the partlet of fine linen pleated to the neck.

  34. But soon, as if satisfied that his work for that time was done, he pushed his pleated forehead through the ocean, and trailing after him the intertangled lines, continued his leeward way at a traveller's methodic pace.

  35. It trembled round the pleated hips of the sopranos.

  36. There was a rosewood piano, whose ivory keys were the color of coffee, whose fretwork displayed a pleated silk that once was crimson as wine.

  37. Down the court they had tripped in close-fitting pleated skirts a little later, and later still with the protruding bustles and skin-tight sleeves of the 'eighties.

  38. They had fled, those rainbow-winged deceivers, together with short frocks accordion-pleated and childhood's tumbled hair.

  39. Francois smiled as he looked at Hyacinthe, buttoned up in his long pleated frock-coat, with his made-up face, and carefully cropped hair and beard.

  40. She was dressed in dark gray, a flowing pleated skirt with a pleated jacket.

  41. He shuddered, too, at the bedstead with its pleated iron laths furred by dust and rust, and at the red mattress exuding flock like clustered maggots.

  42. In the middle of the choir Luna saw his friend the Chapel-master in his crimped and pleated surplice, waving a small bâton.


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