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Example sentences for "washable"

Lexicographically close words:
warwhoop; wary; was; wasent; wash; washbasin; washboard; washbowl; washcloth; washe
  1. The attendant should wear a washable gown that completely covers her clothing.

  2. To wear a washable gown (which is to be taken off on leaving the room).

  3. Small boys are now going about in fear that the next discovery will be a washable neck.

  4. Washable hats for boys is one of the new inventions at the Leather and Shoe Trade Exhibition.

  5. A vase of flowers or a potted plant, and a washable table-cover to be used after the dishes have been put away, will help to make this room a pleasant place for the family.

  6. The walls may be done in enamel paint, or papered with the new washable fabrics, which offer a wide range of choice in pattern and texture.

  7. During the summer, heavy spreads should be removed and light, washable spreads substituted.

  8. This quilt may be termed a forerunner of the vast array of pieced and patched washable quilts belonging to the nineteenth century.

  9. The Chaplain is plainly uncertain, as he wrestles with the clerical guillotine of washable xylonite, and stammers something about unwarrantable liberty and a lady's reputation!

  10. It was a severe apartment, commanding a view of mews, and had a parquet-patterned linoleum on the floor, and a washable paper of a popular ecclesiastical design suggestive of a ranunculus with its hands in its pockets.

  11. White muslin curtains with side hangings of washable chintz or linen or some special nursery design in cretonne should hang to the sill.

  12. Washable cotton rugs are best to use for this purpose.

  13. In doing this, however, the room need not be made cheerless; small rugs, washable curtains and one or two cheerful pictures may be allowed.

  14. Nurses should wear gowns with sleeves or washable uniforms while on duty in the dispensary.

  15. The mattress should be provided with a washable cover.

  16. To save your costume, either wear a washable kimono over it, or better, don the kimono over undergarments and put on the costume after the makeup is applied.

  17. A washable kimono or bath-robe is the best garment to wear.

  18. The stain of wine or fruit may in most cases be taken out of a washable article by laying it immediately in cold water.

  19. Both dye and oil paints may be used, but for anything washable =Dyes= are the best, inasmuch as they are supposed to be fast colors.

  20. Heavy, non-washable material may be stencilled with oil colors.

  21. Grease spots may be removed from washable fabrics by soap and water.

  22. When working in the kitchen the Scout should wear a clean, washable dress, or a washable apron which covers her dress.

  23. If curtains are preferred, they should be of chintz, or of some washable cotton or linen.

  24. To make a stencilled piece washable it has to be steamed like printed dress goods.

  25. Again let me impress upon you not to embroider white washable material in silk, thinking that because silks are more expensive they are better.

  26. Use a washable linen, lace, or crochet button for this purpose.

  27. Elaborate, carved, or upholstered furniture is unsuitable in a sick room, but if it must be used it should have washable covers.

  28. A few light, washable rugs make the best floor covering, but very small rugs on highly polished floors slide easily and are decidedly dangerous.

  29. No heavy unwashable curtains or hangings should be allowed, but simple washable curtains and clean white covers for the tables and dresser are desirable.

  30. The attendant should wear washable dresses with sleeves that can be rolled up, washable aprons, and shoes with rubber heels.

  31. The blanket should be covered with a washable pad or rubber cloth and clean sheet, and the whole should be surrounded by a fence at least two feet high.

  32. The cushion should have a washable cover.

  33. A soft, unbleached, washable silk, woven from the cocoons of the wild silkworm, which feeds on the leaves of the scrub oak.

  34. Remove stains from a washable fabric and a delicate fabric.

  35. In the modern school, the uniform whiteness and the washable quality of every object denote the triumph of an epoch in which the campaign against microbes would seem to be the sole key to human life.

  36. Table oilcloth for wall and ceiling is very satisfactory; next to this in desirability is paint, and for the last choice a washable paper.

  37. Such a laundry will be light and well ventilated, will have washable floors, walls, and ceilings, running water and hot water supply, sanitary tubs and conveniences in the shape of machinery.

  38. The curtain at the window, which gives a touch of daintiness, is of a washable material.

  39. To be washable as well as durable is also a great point in favour of cotton textiles.

  40. The study should be to make it beautiful without such things, and a liberal use of washable textiles in curtains, portières, bed and table covers, will give quite as much sense of luxury as heavily papered walls and costly upholstery.

  41. In cold weather serge and tricatine make splendid but expensive substitutes for the washable materials.

  42. Good varieties of washable rugs can be made of half-worn cotton without dyeing (although they will not be as durable as if made from unworn muslin) by using blue warps to white fillings.

  43. With this one can command reliable blue warps of all shades; and when we come to directions for making washable rugs its importance will be seen.

  44. These three or four variations of style in what we may call washable rugs are almost equally good where red warp is used, substituting Turkey red rags with the white filling instead of blue.

  45. For not only must they be of this washable nature, but they must be of a character to resist the influence of the heat.

  46. Whatever the material, it must, of course, be washable and kept immaculate.

  47. Remember, please, that all draperies must be washable and attached with thumb tacks so as to admit of easy and frequent visits to the laundry.

  48. The most comfortable and easily laundered garment we know of for the small lad is the "romper," which should be made of washable materials that may be readily boiled.

  49. A suitable washable lining and outside drape present a neat as well as sanitary appearance.

  50. A crocheted afghan, a washable embroidered cover, or a firm silk puff, are good covers.

  51. For cool days a Buster Brown coat of the same material, with patent-leather belt, may be slipped on over this washable romper--which completes the boyish outfit.

  52. The milkmen on this farm wear washable clothes at the milking time, and their hands are painstakingly cleansed just before the milking hour.


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