She listened, watching, hoping no one would hear the starched linen crackle.
Before the old man was warned by Prudence's muffled scream that something had gone wrong, the starched dress plumped down over his head and shoulders, and he was bound fast and blinded in its folds.
As she shook her head, the firelight touched her close, dark hair, which shone like satin against the starched band of her cap.
Even through the starched sleeve her grasp felt dry and feverish.
The bath must be acidulated with a little sulphuric acid, or better with tartaric acid, or tartaric acid and alum, and after dyeing the feathers must be rinsed, starched and dried as usual.
They are then taken out, rinsed, starched and dried and beaten.
Before I could elucidate this curious statement there entered the club a young Hollander immaculate in pipe-clayed topée and freshly starched white linen.
But Miss Emily herself was as cool, as dainty and starched and fragile as ever.
Miss Emily in her high bed, her Bible and spectacles on the stand beside her, her starched pillows, her soft and highbred voice?
To your muskets we will oppose our rifles, to your bayonets, our tomahawks; and your starched soldiers will be met, face to face, by the warriors of the Seminole.
Barjona, with a starched shirt and a satin tie, vividly blue!
His dinner jacket seemed rather loose, and his starchedshirt was decidedly crumpled.
My soul is stiff and starched to it; now tell me what it is?
One minute you iron a soft nightshirt; the next a nightgown starched like a board, and the worst thing to get through with before it dries too much that ever appears in a laundry.
Later, when I am promoted to starched work, I tend to grow antifeminist.
Why can men live and move and have their beings satisfactorily incased in soft garments, easy to iron, comfortable to wear, and why must women have everything starched and trying on the soul to do up?
She continued to wear a cap withstarched wings, and shoes with high heels.
Gall when lecturing, till he made the most starched of diplomatists burst their buttons.
Kat, making the starchedcloth rattle with her vigorous folding.
Dear me," said Kittie, handing over the snowy starched heap.
She was dressed in a plain, blue, cotton blouse and skirt; her not over-tall figure swelling plumply beneath their starched folds.
At last a step came tapping down the bricked passage, a bolt was withdrawn, and an old woman, in a coarse brown dress and a starched mob, looked out.
But while the frivolous, the sentimental, and the ungodly were busy converting Tahitian savagery into a Georgian idyll, the well-starched Wesleyan conscience crackled in horror at the black unredemption of the South Sea heathen.
There was the same starched calico smell to his sister’s dresses, the same clang-tint to his mother’s voice.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "starched" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: firm; formal; prim; rigid; starched; starchy; stiff; stilted; taut; tense; tight; unrelaxed
