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Example sentences for "tulle"

Lexicographically close words:
tulips; tulisan; tulisanes; tulit; tull; tulo; tulwar; tulwars; tulzie; tum
  1. And although Phil had teased me about not wanting to wear an ordinary travelling dress and hat, he had to acknowledge afterward that he was glad I chose to come to him all in white and in a filmy tulle veil.

  2. I write it here on the last page and lay it away under the white tulle and the rose leaves, for some one to bring to light long years from now.

  3. With a characteristically impulsive jerk she dragged the tulle band and artificial flower from her hair, tossed them to Eric and stretched her hand up for a red rose to take their place.

  4. From the tiny waist trailed yards of white faille, trimmed with tulle ruchings, frecked as a meadow with faintly-tinted daisies; the hips were engarlanded with daisies, and the flowers melted and bloomed amid snows of faille and tulle.

  5. Now, with motherly care she removed a tulle skirt from the table, and Violet, with quick, nervous glances, examined the room.

  6. The gloom of approaching ruin disappeared, and he saw nothing in the world but a white tulle skirt, a thin foot, a thin bosom, and a pair of bright grey eyes.

  7. Donna Francesca Dobini, a celebrated beauty, was rather affectedly draped in a tulle arrangement around her shoulders.

  8. She wondered whether La Favorita had really nothing on except a number of yards of tulle which she held in her hands.

  9. She is 'going off,' so that she has to wrap tulle about her old neck to hide the wrinkles.

  10. You are looking at two big tears, big as pearls, that rose in two jet black eyes, quivered for one instant on the eyelashes, and then dropped on the ethereal tulle of which Madame Leroux's artistic masterpiece was composed.

  11. We can only suggest to mourners wearing it that they should pin a small veil of black tulle over the eyes and nose, and throw back the heavy crape as often as possible, for health's sake.

  12. The bridal dresses are usually of white satin and point lace, a preference for tulle veils being very evident.

  13. During half a year should be worn Henrietta cloth or serge trimmed with crape, at first with black tulle at the wrists and neck.

  14. Partly by nature and partly because she had learned that thus she could best obtain her wishes, she was gentle as a well-filled cat and delicate as a tulle scarf.

  15. A little frightened in that vast, unknown hall, embarrassed by the look of strange things, she drew the black tulle to her chin.

  16. Not the customary conservative but monotonous upholstered affair of jet and lace, but a handful of pink roses in a tulle nest, held on by wisps of tulle instead of ribbons.

  17. The little bride stood motionless, her tulle train seeming to melt into the whiteness of the marble on which she stood.

  18. Then the bridesmaids, in palest pink tulle frocks, each pair carrying between them a long garland of pink roses, and wearing wreaths of pink roses on their hair.

  19. Without a word, Ray took off Patty's voluminous tulle skirts in which she was arrayed, and handed them over to their rightful owner.

  20. I looked at 'that'; it was a ragged fragment of tulle about a quarter of a yard long, dependent from the graceful head of a young lady immediately in front of us.

  21. When I could not find the key of the square and wanted to sit out with my admirers, after leaving a ball early, I was in the habit of climbing over these gates in my tulle dress.

  22. When I reached our front door my father opened it and, seeing me in my white tulle dress, was beside himself with rage.

  23. She drew the cloud of black tulle closer about her grandmother's chin and neck and rearranged her disordered hair.

  24. The white cloud of tulle once more enveloped cheek and chin: no mourning should be worn for a scoundrel, she said.

  25. The cloud of tulle which she always wore about her neck and chin had become loosened, and the sharp, withered outline of the lower portion of her face and of the throat was painfully evident.

  26. She wondered why she had been such a fool as to wear that gown of purplish amethystine tulle tonight.

  27. But the best she could do was to sit in haughty silence at his side, while the wind took the long ends of her scented tulle scarf and tore it to rags, fluttering them maliciously in the faces of the two silent ones behind.

  28. The black-velvet dinner gown she wore, simple to austerity, had just a faint rim of tulle at the edges against her skin.

  29. Rosanne had thrown off her white velvet cloak and flung herself and her crushed tulle into a great armchair.

  30. The tulle dress was ruined, but little she recked.

  31. The brambles seemed to have a special penchant for Mrs. Hading's flying ends of tulle and lace, and she spent most of her time disengaging herself while Druro went ahead, pushing branches out of the way.

  32. A shiver went through her and she dropped the tulle swiftly.

  33. She saw his figure hesitating a moment, as he faced the oncoming guests, such a flood of femininity, unmantled now and unveiled, sparkling in rainbow hues of silks and tulle and gauze that he had never before faced and never would again.

  34. The hall was crowded now; the ball was a flash of color, a whirl of satins and spangles and tulle and gauze, gold and green and rose and sapphire, gyrating madly in vivid projection against the black and white stripes of the Moorish walls.

  35. With resounding whacks the Arabs were urging on their beast; Miriam, her prayers concluded, was shaking out silks and tulle with a sidelong glance for that still figure in the next room, pressing so close against the guarding screens.

  36. We have stated above that the maximum daily hand production of tulle dotted in quincunxes of 0.

  37. But it is evident that a much larger quincunx may be had by putting in play only a half, a third, or a fourth of the punches, and causing the tulle and velvet to advance proportionally.

  38. The steam roller, R", carries at one of its extremities a ratchet wheel whose teeth vary in number according to the greater or less rapidity with which the tulle is unrolled.

  39. Lilla turned aside, drawing a cloud of golden tulle around her slender shoulders.

  40. Below their negligible bodices hung draperies of brocade interwoven with metallic threads, of lace dyed the colors of exotic flowers, of tulle embroidered with iridescent beads.

  41. What would her brave platitudes count if she could wear bright gold tulle with slim shoulder straps of jet supporting it?

  42. At one time Steve would have noted only that white tulle and pearls spun witchery, and her skirt possessed the charm of a Hawaiian girl's dancing costume.

  43. Before resuming her seat, Madame Deberle proceeded to draw down the embroidered tulle blind of a window facing her, and then returned to her sofa in the mellowed, golden light of the room.

  44. The day being dull, the small curtains of embroidered tulle had been pulled aside and swung across the knobs of the window-fastenings, so that the garden could be seen, dark and damp.

  45. The Tulle Illusion, was illusion no longer.

  46. Some snowdrops are thrown carelessly among the folds of the tulle that covers and softens her silk gown; a tiny spray of the same flower lies nestling in her hair.

  47. Do let me take my flowers and tulle uncrushed to Mabel's, or I shall complain of you to her, and so spoil your evening.

  48. I wore the white silk and my pink tulle hat.

  49. Her pretty feet show when she runs about, but she wears a large black tulle hat with fluffy strings, and it does not seem very suitable for tennis.

  50. Everybody seemed to be in their best clothes, and most of the women had flowers and tulle or little black feathers sticking up in their hair, and bare red arms, and skirts inches off the ground in front; you know the look.

  51. She had a huge tulle bow in her hair, and her earrings were as big as shillings.


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