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Example sentences for "scarf"

Lexicographically close words:
scare; scarecrow; scarecrows; scared; scares; scarfed; scarfing; scarfpin; scarfs; scarification
  1. Everything I had--my gold chain, my scarf pin, and my ring.

  2. The curve of this scarf meets the curve of the profile to form a beautiful oval.

  3. Finally, the massive effect of the hair is broken by the narrow scarf bound about it and tied under the chin.

  4. Wound about his waist and hanging to his knees was a scarf of rich, heavy silk, which one garment is the entire costume of ordinary life in Siam.

  5. She prefers a scarf which she can arrange and rearrange, and thus display the glitter of her golden ornaments.

  6. The pastor had remained standing at the door, tugging violently at the woollen scarf which in the heat of the room nearly suffocated him.

  7. A blue-silk scarf hung on one of the branches.

  8. She acquiesced joyously, and quickly wound a lace scarf round her head, threw over her diaphanous house dress a heavy fur-cloak, and hurried before him out at the door unseen by any one in the house.

  9. He was attired in a shabby fur coat like an Esquimaux's, and had twisted a thick brown woollen scarf two or three times round his throat.

  10. Probably that Saxon whose smile had spread under his scarf had much the same kind of wife.

  11. A French soldier makes ear muffs, chest protector, nightcap, and a blanket out of the scarf which wife or sister knits for him.

  12. My last glimpse of him was of a grin spreading under the scarf toward his ears.

  13. Wrapping a light scarf about her shoulders, she stole softly downstairs and outdoors without being observed by the knot of girls in the living room.

  14. There were shoes, stockings and scarf to match, along with a wonderful white evening coat, trimmed with wide bands of white fur and lined with palest pink brocade.

  15. Dolly, whirling up at this moment, and sinking back into the scarf which he hurriedly draped about her.

  16. Every eye was at once turned to him as he beat the frost from his parkee hood and thrust it back, unwrapped fold after fold of the ice-crusted scarf from his face, and pulled off his mittens.

  17. He had carefully prepared a lunch and had wrapped it neatly in paper, and he placed it for a moment on the sled while he turned to put his scarf about him.

  18. But to get my scarf meant stopping the whole procession and unlashing and unloading the sled, and the man who unlashed in that wind would almost certainly freeze his fingers.

  19. An incautious turn of the head and the scarf that protected mouth and nose was snatched from me and borne far away in an instant, beyond thought of recovery.

  20. Unfortunately, in the confusion of striking the tent and packing in the dark, my scarf had been rolled up in the bedding, and, since the wind was not bad until we approached the Gap in the evening, I had not troubled about it.

  21. There was an old moss-grown stone sundial close to the house; she paused for a moment beside it to pick up a scarf which was laid on the top and so passed through the window, whence in a moment or two a lamp-light shone.

  22. I would have worn her proudly, for all the world to see--the star upon my coat, the scarf across my breast.

  23. And somehow emblematic of this physiognomy and physique, summing it up and expressing it in terms of apparel, were the soft collar and black scarf tied in a flowing bow.

  24. Early the next morning, as he left the pier in the motor boat, he saw a pink scarf waving high above him from the loggia.

  25. One of them unfastened his white satin scarf and waved it in the darkness, as a sign of adieu.

  26. As to La Mole he had already twice found an opportunity to kiss Marguerite's white scarf with gold fringe, without the act, which was carried out with the skill usual to lovers, having been seen by more than three or four.

  27. Letty Lane arranged her scarf and then drew back from him and laughed.

  28. And in a few moments, to Dan's astonished delight, the actress herself appeared, a big scarf over her head and her body enveloped in her snowy cloak, and he understood with a leap of his heart that she had singled him out to take her home.

  29. She had a flowing white veil around her head and a flowing white scarf around her shoulders.

  30. This is used in its life shade for a large number of varieties of knitted articles, perhaps its best-known use in knitting is in connection with the scarf trade, whilst it is also found in the knitted glove and cap industry.

  31. This material is usually supplied two-fold for knitting purposes and has been in great demand for the scarf and knitted coat trade, where brilliance of shade and elegance of appearance are outstanding features.

  32. Sidenote: Collars and Cuffs] Separate collars and cuffs are more generally used, and the scarf should be pinned to the collar at the back, as these have a way of parting company that is most untidy.

  33. Portrait of Rembrandt, seen in nearly a front view, having on a bonnet of the usual shape, placed sideways on his head, and a kind of scarf round his neck.

  34. A Bust of a Moorish Woman, seen in nearly a profile view, having on her head a scarf turned up in front, decked with a feather, and falling behind her head.

  35. Vandyke, indeed, when his ground would not permit him, introduced over the shoulders of his females a scarf of this colour.

  36. Still, the pleated tan silk skirt with sweater to match, a gay triangle scarf around her shoulders and a jaunty béret on her head looked very nice, indeed.

  37. Good thing she knew where she had left that story—under the scarf on her dresser.

  38. Let me see," said Paul, taking the glass as they came nigher.

  39. When the wrist was set and bandaged, the trader presented them with a silken scarf to make into a sling, and had them served with horns of sparkling mead.

  40. Instantly the scarf was slipped from Alwin's mouth, and the living fetters unclasped themselves from his limbs.

  41. She held her rosary in one hand and had drawn a scarf over her shoulders; but they shone through it like the moon in a mist, and her countenance sparkled with beauty.

  42. Her arms and neck were bare, but slipping from the shoulders, carelessly held in the fashion of the day, was a white crêpe scarf fringed with green.

  43. She was in diaphanous white, with frosted flowers amidst her golden ringlets, a little crown of stars above her brow, and a scarf of silver tissue.

  44. Mary in a blue cloak, a white scarf wound about her head, summed up for him the pure beauty of nature and the night.

  45. She wore a dress of black gauze over white; a little scarf of old lace lay on her shoulders; her still abundant hair was rolled back from her high brow and sad eyes.

  46. She wore the tricolour scarf round her waist, else she had been more seriously molested ere now.

  47. Five men were standing before her, four of whom wore the uniform of the National Guard, and the fifth, the tricolour scarf fringed with gold, which denoted service under the Convention.

  48. An arabeah waited for them; and having bought a scarf or two, they drove off before we had parted to go our several ways.


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