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Example sentences for "pleating"

Lexicographically close words:
pleasured; pleasures; pleasuring; pleat; pleated; pleats; plebe; plebeian; plebeians; plebem
  1. She glanced at him sharply, then fell to pleating the gelding's mane.

  2. I know him better than you do," she observed, bending her head and pleating the lace on her knee.

  3. She did not say why not, seated there nervously pleating the fragile stuff clinging to her knee.

  4. She sat silent, pleating her lace with steady fingers.

  5. If a half-inch pleating is to be made, the folds will come every one and one-half inches.

  6. To do this, the inside of the pleating will lap more than the outside.

  7. The pleating should radiate from the center.

  8. Three rows or more of pleating may be used on this ornament.

  9. Any simple pleating requires three times the length of the space it is to cover.

  10. A simple box pleating may be basted through the center and the edges caught together.

  11. The pleating may be tested by holding a ruler on a line between the top and the lower edge of the pleating.

  12. This pleating is nearly always used by basting through the center, after having slightly pressed.

  13. The pleating may be caught together at top and bottom of box pleat, and it is then known as rose pleating.

  14. The simplest pleating is a side pleating.

  15. This assumes exactly the shape of the pleated fan, the pleating formed by Nature's deft hands.

  16. This is apparently rigid, since no sign of pleating is apparent in the representation, which is, however, small.

  17. Operations of the pleating of the fan, 121.


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